Life in the 60

I decided to interview my father because I had already known that he had some personal experiences with the 60’s and would be interesting to talk to. My father lived with both of his parents, and sister in LA and strongly remembers many situations in the 60’s that have changed him forever.
My father used the example of televisions shows to describe how the century changed and how he changed with it. He explained it as Leave it Beaver to Roseanne. He believed that he was at the age where he was changing in his life during adolescence but understood that the 60’s added to it. He believed that the world went from conservative to a crazy party time with free love, drinking and drugs.
Looking back at the 60’s seemed to be eventful from bad to good. My father changed for the positive and understood that some of the events that were occurring in the world were for the better. He understood the positives of space exploration, walking on the moon and the technology advances that we got from that. He also believed that music changed for the better and he really appreciates the artists that came about and how they changed the industry.
Some things about the 60’s that were upset to my father was the ide

Also something very interesting that I found out was that my father didn’t really understand the impact that Martin Luther King had and the importance of his death. It hadn’t ever affected my father until later in life when he realized what a great leader he was and the message he was trying to convey was that they should win the racist fight by going to school, and getting smart, and not taking the violent stand, but the smarter, more equal stand.

The one thing in the interview that I didn’t learn, that I wanted to know the most about was his opinion about the Weathermen. He had not remembered if he had heard about them during the Vietnam War and wasn’t able to tell me anything about them. During our class discussions, I have been most interested in hearing about the Weathermen, and have been personally shocked that I have never heard of them before this class. I just believe that they were extremely involved and a huge part of history for not many people to have heard about it.

I believe that the answers given to me during the interview were pretty similar to those in class, but he did tell me about more positive things that our country was doing at that time that was not mentioned in class discussions. One thing I found very interesting was his ideas about music and how it had c