I never really viewed it as a success. Nixon threw everything at the Vietnamese first and gave up from exhaustion. We did change the narrative about the Cold War however, which kept us from such a huge mess for..... 27 years. ::sigh::
Loved the movie. If this footage had been released as a movie a la Woodstock, a lot of people would have discovered Nina Simone a lot sooner (I only started getting into her a few years ago). And there was a nice reminder of hoe John Lindsay, who was mayor of New York at the time (and I was living there, in Brooklyn) could not possibly be a Republican in 2021.
I'm your age and I had no idea this festival even happened. We have the movie queued up and ready to watch. Looking forward to it.
P.S. Boomers did everything we could to stop the Vietnam war. And we succeeded. That's not nothing.
The most telling thing for me was that it was filmed, and no one wanted to release it - not on TV or as movie, nothing. I wonder why.
I never really viewed it as a success. Nixon threw everything at the Vietnamese first and gave up from exhaustion. We did change the narrative about the Cold War however, which kept us from such a huge mess for..... 27 years. ::sigh::
Loved the movie. If this footage had been released as a movie a la Woodstock, a lot of people would have discovered Nina Simone a lot sooner (I only started getting into her a few years ago). And there was a nice reminder of hoe John Lindsay, who was mayor of New York at the time (and I was living there, in Brooklyn) could not possibly be a Republican in 2021.
I recall him, too. He seemed like a pretty good guy compared especially to Koch and Giuliani and the last billionaire guy.