<p>Anyone else watching? It’s quite well done. Even though I was a pre-teen and teen during those years and remember many of the events quite vividly, I still shake my head at how much happened in such a short period of time, how the volume dial on life was continuously turned up to high. Three assassinations, Woodstock, Watergate, the moon landing, the Vietnam War and the draft, urban riots, civil rights legislation, the British invasion, the Six Day War, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia…How often we were shocked, saddened, amazed! </p>
<p>Thinking back, I have to wonder how my personality and view of life was molded by those events, both the good and the bad, during such formative years. I marvel how, despite 9/11 and two wars, the world my kids experienced during those same formative years was relatively uneventful and predictable. The generation gap is so much more than mere years.</p>
<p>I have enjoyed the parts I got to watch. Although I have some problems understanding why those might have been the good ol’ days. Except for the current abysmal foreign policies, it is hard to see a worse United States, and especially the last years with Vietnam, the protests, and the flower children! But then, I did not see the Twenties series yet with the Depression. </p>
<p>I am quite happy that I wasn’t born early enough to live through those years. Maybe the series is meant to make my generation stop complaining. </p>
<p>I don’t remember most of it as I was born midway through the sixties, but it’s very well done. It’s nice to see the clips that aren’t the typical clips that we’ve all seen from that era. </p>
<p>It just missed the 60’s by five months, but I was in HS when Kent State happened, and I vividly remember how shocked and surreal that whole thing was. The thought of US soldiers firing on US students. To this day, I can’t hear Ohio by CSN without becoming emotional. My kids don’t get it at all, but it’s totally a case of ‘you had to have experienced it’.</p>
<p>Indeed, your generation should stop complaining because I was ten years old in 1967, and I remember the three assassinations, the daily bloody footage of the “Vietnam Conflict” on the nightly news (along with the daily body count that went with it), as well as the horror inducing footage of the Watts Riots and Philadelphia and Detroit in flames. I remember the talk of the grown ups, who were sure all these things signaled “the end of days” (biblically speaking), and the fear and amazement that rode shotgun in every adult conversation I overheard. There was a race riot at the newly desegregated Jr. High the year before I was to enter, which presaged some really tumultuous years to come for me personally. We think things are socio-politically tempestuous here in the US until we seriously look back and review all that went down in the 60’s and early 70’s. Compared to then, we’re living in good times. </p>
<p>I saw one episode awhile ago. It was strange to realize that the daily news events are now history and so many now adults were born well after them. We are defined by our generations. Growing up I never realized that WWII was so near in time- it was my parents’ generation and ancient history to me. We grew up with so many major societal changes and upheavals. So much is taken for granted today that we saw change. Watershed years (include the early '70’s). Seeing what I did in the episode I watched was old news- saw it the first time around.</p>
<p>@Wellspring, CNN has airs a new episode each Thursday and has been re-running previous episodes other evenings, though I think special coverage of the Ukraine plane crash and the Gaza war must have pre-empted a lot of the scheduled reruns. </p>
<p>So far my favorite talking head comment (can’t recall who was speaking) came during the segment on 1968: “1968 was just one damn thing after another.” It sure was.</p>
<p>@wis75, even though it’s all been “old news” and many of us saw it all the first time around, I know at least my own perspective is not the same all these years later. For example, seeing Robert Kennedy announce Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to the crowd is just remarkable from the vantage point of today’s elections, when it’s hard to imagine a Presidential candidate reacting to a national tragedy by anything more than sending out a carefully scripted press release and cancelling public appearances for a few days.</p>
<p>Even though I’m only 17 it’s really wonderful to watch! My parents grew up in communist Poland in the height of the cold war and they’re always calling me over to the TV when it airs, just so they can compare what they were learning in the 60’s to what was happening in the US at the time. I love it!! My favorite TV show. </p>
<p>It’s a wonderful series. I have watched several of the episodes more than once. I remember watching so much of the footage live. </p>
<p>Imo, the sixties was an exciting time to be alive. So much tragedy, yet so much growth and change as a country. And the music was so much better then! </p>