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Existence: 01 January 2005

General Note: It was a time when a generation rebelled and lost its innocence. From the Vietnam War to the struggle for racial equality to the birth of a counter-culture explosion, the 1960s was a decade of change, experimentation and hope that transformed an entire nation. THE SIXTIES: THE YEARS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION traces the events of one of the most turbulent and influential periods of political and cultural change in the 20th century and the powerful impact forced on an entire generation. This two-hour documentary features revealing interviews with the prominent figures of the era, including Barbara Ehrenreich, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesse Jackson, Tom Hayden, Arlo Guthrie, Henry Kissinger, Norman Mailer, Robert McNamara, Ed Meese III, and Bobby Seale. There is no disagreement even today over the failures and accomplishments that were born from the 1960s, but one thing is certain - there has never been a time quite like it.

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Citation: The Sixties: The Years That Shaped A Generation, 402VI2039. 01 January 2005, Dominick Cirincione Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=402VI2039, Accessed 03 Aug 2026.

Pub Credit Line: 402VI2039, Dominick Cirincione Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive