"Fifty Years Ago Today" x 3652 = Enough's Enough Already

[Lord Undies]

Beginning today, and continuing for the next ten years, everyday will mark the 50th anniversary of anything and everything that happened between January 1, 1960, and December 31, 1969.  A bunch of stuff, great and small, happened.  We are going to hear about it all....all over again....every little thing.

This is my prediction.  I wonder if it will come true? 

What will be the biggest "anniversary"?  JFK?  Woodstock?  LBJ?  Sgt. Pepper's?  Moon landing?  All-color TV broadcasting?  Jiffy Pop Popcorn?  Doris Day's last movie?  Ford Mustang?  Marilyn Monroe's murder death? 

[Thor]

They just celebrated the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. A week of drug induced haze and apathy to living in urine, feces and vomit, little water,  little food, rain, mud, etc. WTF is  there to celebrate??

[djones520]

They just celebrated the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. A week of drug induced haze and apathy to living in urine, feces and vomit, little water,  little food, rain, mud, etc. WTF is  there to celebrate??

I never saw the appeal to it either.  I woulda avoided something like that, like the plague.

[franksolich]

It's been my observation in American history, that generally, after the 40th anniversary of something, it goes downhill, mostly because many of those who were around at the time of an event, have died off.

The big remembrance seems to occur earlier, on the 20th or 25th anniversary, and then it declines after that, although it's still big up until and including the 40th.

Pearl Harbor and D-Day are good examplles.

I also give you the Kennedy assassination of 1963; does anyone recall seeing it marked last November 22?  Even on Skins's island there was only one campfire about it, as compared with many about the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination of 1968.

Tempus sure does fugit; sic transit gloria.

[rustybayonet]

November 22, 1963 1:33 PM when a press aide announced "President John F. Kennedy is dead"; for personal reasons it will always rank number one with me.  As I get older, I meet people that weren't even born then.  How do you explain - the country 'stopped'.  The only thing people were doing is sitting in small groups in front of a 'scratchy,snowy black and white TV set' getting the same news over and over again, watching the casket guarded in the Rotunda with lines miles long to pass by paying there respects until Sunday, when Ruby shot Oswald live on TV. Then the funeral, through Washington DC, John John saluting his father, Black Jack with boots backwards in his saddle, the entire procession walking over the bridge and into Arlington for the burial at the soon to be 'eternal flame' memorial.
Yes, I may not post it much anymore, but I do remember.

[JohnnyReb]

50 years ago today.....I was 14 years old and horny as hell.....the 50 years ago today report would remain the same for many years.

[Lord Undies]

It's been my observation in American history, that generally, after the 40th anniversary of something, it goes downhill, mostly because many of those who were around at the time of an event, have died off.

The big remembrance seems to occur earlier, on the 20th or 25th anniversary, and then it declines after that, although it's still big up until and including the 40th.

Pearl Harbor and D-Day are good examplles.

I also give you the Kennedy assassination of 1963; does anyone recall seeing it marked last November 22?  Even on Skins's island there was only one campfire about it, as compared with many about the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination of 1968.

Tempus sure does fugit; sic transit gloria.

People my age, who were old enough to be mentally engaged by the events but too young to be a true physical participant, are now in charge of all the media machines.  My fellow 1960's "toddlers" tend to look back at the decade as a surreal and idealized time of life when they did not have nor wanted any control.  I think this next ten years will be a big time of reflecting upon the 1960's, whether as an era is deserving of such attention or not.    

[Lord Undies]

And it begins:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/02/jfk_announced_presidential_run_50_years_ago/

BOSTON—The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is marking the 50th anniversary of JFK's announcement that he planned to run for president.   

Kennedy made the announcement to reporters in the Senate Caucus Room on January 2, 1960 with the simple words "I am announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States."

And it's only the 2nd of January 2010.   

[Thor]

as far as the article.........

I think what this may do, and 0bama will enjoy it, is make people tune out and turn off. After all, when folks are fed too much pablum, they tire of it quickly.