... former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." -- Martin Luther King Jr., 1963 By 1960 government had become an increasingly powerful force in people's lives. During the 1930s, The White House had initiated ... education, health and welfare. Republicans, while accepting government's basic and necessary responsibility, hoped to cap spending and restore a larger measure of individual initiative. John F. Kennedy, Democratic victor in the election of 1960, was at 43 the youngest man ever to win the presidency. On television,...

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... were enjoying their time happily soul-searching, blacks were searching for justice and equality. The fight for equality hadn't been recognized as a critical issue until John F. Kennedy's election to office in 1960, when he freed Martin Luther King, a major influential figure in civil rights. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960's looked for the disestablishment of racism and segregation. It included the ... ...

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... stories tend to hold more ideology. Movies act as a medium to let us, the younger generations, experience what happened before us. We can see and feel Kennedy's assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral and to an extent feel the paints of war or at least learn the pains of war through film. By the same vision, feeling and pain are ours ... , as Hollywood, like the country as a whole, had difficulty adjusting to the grim legacy of a lost and troubling war. During the conflict, Hollywood produced only a single film dealing with Vietnam--John Wayne's The Green Berets. In general, Holl...

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... the Vietnamese still makes for uncomfortable viewing. When, during the first Russian roulette sequence, Robert De Niro's character Michael kills his captors it is an act of bravado worthy of John Wayne, and one that American audiences clung to. When the film ends, with the mourners of Nick's funeral singing "God Bless America" in unison it becomes abundantly clear that this ... Army depicted in these films represents not only racial and ethnic differences (conflict between blacks and whites is portrayed extremely well in Hamburger Hill, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassina...

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