Stuck in the '70's

What we experienced......... 

Headlines, history and news

May 4, 1970

On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard
fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students.

February, 1970: Verdict: Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial

In September, 1969, as the U.S. commitment to the Vietnam War intensified, the Chicago Conspiracy Trial began. Eight men (including Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale, Dave Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin) were charged with "conspiracy," and with individually crossing state lines and ma

February 5, 1971: Apollo 14, lunar landing

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. walks on the moon

March 29, 1971: Guilty Verdict, Lt. William Calley, My Lai Massacre

Into the Dark - The My Lai Massacre in which hundreds of Vitnamese civilians were murdered by American G.I.'s,......

March 23, 1971: 26th Amendment, 18 year-old's get the vote.

26th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article...

May 15, 1972: Govenor George Wallace shot.........

Wallace Remembered Wallace Is Shot, Legs Paralyzed;Suspect Seized at Laurel RallyWallace is shown moments after being shot. (Reuters)

A young assailant dressed in red, white and blue shot....

September 6, 1972: Olympic hostages killed in gun battle

All nine of the Israeli athletes kidnapped on Tuesday from the Olympic Village in Munich are killed in a gun battle at a nearby airport.

June 17, 1972: Watergate Break-in

On June 17, 1972, police apprehended five men attempting to break into and wiretap Democratic party offices. With two other accomplices they were tried and convicted in Jan., 1973. All seven men were either directly or indirectly employees of President Nixon's reelection committee......

Febuary 4, 1973: Vietnam observers' struggle for peace

International inspection teams in Vietnam have been sent into the countryside to monitor the truce agreed last Saturday in Paris.

August 9, 1974: Nixon resigns

The events surrounding Watergate and impeachment proceedings against Nixon.

February 4, 1974: Patty Hearst kidnapped........

Three SLA soldiers - later identified by Hearst as Atwood, DeFreeze and Bill Harris - burst into the apartment Hearst shared with her fiance Steven Weed. Armed with guns, the men assaulted Weed with a wine bottle and carried Hearst, screaming and clothed in a nightgown, to a waiting car......

September 9, 1974: President Ford pardons Nixon

... As we are a nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God. And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with special diligence to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Richard Nixon, and his loyal wife and family......

July 30, 1975

Jimmy Hoffa disappears...........

September 18, 1975: Patty Hearst arrested

......after crisscrossing the country with her captors--or conspirators--for more than a year, Hearst, or "Tania," as she called herself, was captured in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery.

November, 1976: Jimmy Carter elected President of U.S.

Detailed national-level Presidential Election Results for 1976.

January 17, 1977: Gary Gilmore gets his wish: death by execution

.....All of those who believed the con was bluffing, that he'd change his mind at the last minute, were in shock. Gilmore had asked to be allowed to die and he was going to die....

March 27, 1977: Indira Ghandi is defeated, and resigns

.....In early 1977, confident that she had debilitated her opposition, Mrs. Gandhi called for fresh elections, and found herself trounced by a newly formed coalition of several political parties. Her Congress party lost badly at the polls. Many declared that she was a spent force; but, three years later, she was to return as Prime Minister of India.....

March 6, 1978: Larry Flynt shot

.....In early 1978, Flynt was faced with another charge of obscenity in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Upon leaving the court, he was shot in the abdomen by the alleged gunman and white supremacist, Joseph Paul Franklin, crippling him for life. Shortly after, Flynt renounced his conversion, stating in his autobiography that he was not interested in a God who would let people suffer as he was. He later declared that "if those born-agains would just take a little lithium, they'd be fine. . . . The visions would go away."...

August 6, 1978

1963-1978
Pope Paul Vl, the pilgrim pope, died on August 6, 1978, the feast of the Transfiguration. He asked that his funeral be simple with no catafalque and no monument over his grave.

November 18, 1978 - Jonestown Massacre

...What is known about the end of Jonestown is that on November 18, 1978, Jones ordered more than 900 of his followers to drink cyanide-poisoned punch. He told guards to shoot anyone who refused or tried to escape. Among the dead: more than 270 children....

March 28, 1979: Three Mile Island: Nuclear accident

...Unbeknown to anyone, half the fuel melted in one of two nuclear reactors on Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pa. Large quantities of radioactivity leaked from the reactor, but most of it was contained. In all probability, no one received a harmful amount of radiation....

What we were watching on television 

All in the Family

Created by Norman Lear, starring Carol O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner (the meathead).

Saturrday Night Live

The original, starring Chevy Chase, John Belushi,

Happy Days

The life and times of a "typical" American Family in the 50's, starring Ron Howard, Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, Marion Ross, and Henry Winkler.

The Brady Bunch

Another "typical" America family, except in the 70's, starring Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Ann B. Davis, Barry Williams, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is a satire on contemporary America. Mary is the liberated woman who discovers she is trapped. Ted, of course, is television. With images and links.

MASH

With the original cast, Alan Alden, Wayne Rodgers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swift, Larry Linville, Mike Farrell, Jamie Farr, and Gary Burghoff......

Bob Newhart Show, The

With Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette......

CBS Nightly News

My idea of an anchorman: Walter Chronkite