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PROMO FOR 8/24/2008 "Rethinking the Sixties"
*Forty years ago the streets of Chicago exploded as police clashed with anti-war protesters at the
Democratic National Convention.  It's one of the momentous events that defined the Sixties.  Or
is it?  Some historians now say the rise of the conservative movement is what truly made history
in the Sixties.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll dissect the Sixties - and talk
with activist Tom Hayden.  

PROGRAM RUNDOWN:   "Re-Thinking the Sixties"

0:00 - 24:21   SEGMENT 1: (24:22)
          The Democratic Convention in 1968 was eclipsed by the violence in Chicago
          between the police and the anti-war protesters.  This hour, we look back at the
          legacy of the sixties: Tom Hayden, one of the founders of Students for a
          Democratic Society and later a State Assemblyman and Senator in California,
          talks with Steve Paulson.  Also, WPR reporter Gil Halstead considers himself a
          veteran of the anti-war movement.  He went to Vietnam for the third time to
          report on the 40th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre and to sort out his own
          complex feelings about the War, and prepared this report.
          
          Segment One Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

24:22 - 24:51  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

24:52 - 37:51  SEGMENT 2: (13:00)
          Suze Rotolo was Bob Dylan's inseparable companion in the early 60s'.. She's
          now written a memoir called "A Freewheelin' Time.  Anne Strainchamps talks
          with her about Dylan and the scene they shared.  And we hear lots of Dylan's
          music.  
          
          Segment Two Outcue:  "...PRI - Public Radio International."

37:52 - 38:21  LOCAL OPTION with music bed (:29)

38:22 - 53:00  SEGMENT 3: (14:38)
          We get a totally different take on the sixties from the next generation:  TTBOOK
          producer and GenExer Charles Monroe Kane is tired of hearing Baby Boomers
          wax nostalgic and he tells us why.  Also, Rick Perlstein is a historian who thinks
          the real story of the sixties is the rise of the modern conservative movement.  His
          books include "Before the Storm" and "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and
          the Fracturing of America."  Perlstein tells Jim Fleming that everything in the
          sixties seemed apocalyptic. 
          
          Segment Three Outcue: PRI Audio Logo


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