"American Experience" 1964 (TV Episode 2014)

"American Experience" 1964 (TV Episode 2014). 1964: Directed by Stephen Ives. With Oliver Platt, Robert Cohen, Hodding Carter III, Edwin King. The pivotal year that essentially ushered in the true 1960s is explored.

“Several of the most interesting details in this PBS survey of a turning point in U.S. history are those that cut across the grain of expected stereotypes.Thus early on we see YAFFERS (members of the right wing campus group Young Americans For Freedom)dancing to the new trendy go-go style music,for the Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.And we learn that the Free Speech Movement,which had been started at the left-leaning University of California at Berkeley by students u0026quot;radicalizedu0026quot; from their experiences that summer in Mississippi,received support from Youth for Goldwater.The show also references how TV series that fall,such as Bewitched and the Addams Family,reflected the new kinds of family being explored in the culture.The high point of the documentary is the Civil Rights organizer Dave Dennis,seen in his fiery youth and also now aged.”