JFK assignation and Marilyn singing Happy Birthday to him. I was in third grade when The President was shot. It was fifteen minutes before dismissal time at 3:00 when The Principal came on the announcements and told all of us. I saw the Marilyn thing on news clips in the days afterwards and I wondered what the big deal was about it. In my child's mind I thought; why was singing happy birthday to someone in the news. The funeral of The President on TV.
Cuban Missle Crisis...you should have seen what Miami was like then. Soldiers in tents camping at my neighborhood park on Miami Beach. Duck and cover drills in school every day. Lots of fear among people living here.
The Cold War
Men walking on the moon. My first boyfriend walked over to my house and we were watching on a little black and white TV. I still have the front page of The Miami Herald from that day.
The Viet Nam War. I didn't pay a lot of attention to what happened each day. I had friends worried about their draft number and even had one friend that got braces so he didn't have to go. People were wearing peace symbols. Lots of protests. "Don't trust anyone over 30."
Nixon resigns due to the Watergate scandal.
Campus unrest during the war. He.. no, we won't go. Sit ins.
Hippies in Haight Ashburry. Peace Movement. Underground music. Rock festivals and love ins.
Woodstock.
Sputnik orbits the earth. Our own launches and landings. The astronauts and their families being talked about on TV. Watching as they would retrieve the space capsules from the ocean. Watching the countdown with the rockets on the launch pads.
The Beatles coming to Miami Beach Auditorium to appear on Ed Sullivan.
Ali versus Frazier.
Both kinds of polio vaccines given in my elementary school.
First women police officers. First women in many careers. The womens' movement. The pill. Womens' Lib.
The AIDS epidemic. The discovery by two teams of the virus.
Movement for civil rights. Dr. King's assassination. Segregation. The day a school was integrated, I think it was in Governor George Wallace's state, Alabama. He tried to stop four black students from entering their schools.
The Manson Family
Hawaii becomes a state. We got our new flag in pre school , first grade or kindergarten.
First cell phones.
First home computers become popular.
Color TV.
Microwave ovens in home kitchens.
Commercial jet planes.
First heart transplant.
911
First test tube baby.
Tampons and toxic shock syndrome.
The anthrax attacks.
A CURE for hepatitis C.
Getting Osama, America's most wanted.
Sequencing the human genome. DNA editing including CRISPR. DNA use in solving crimes. DNA use in ancestry. Determining genetics as causal factors in many disorders. Looking at the history of humans and other living things through genetics.
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