The Seventies

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June 2018
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The 1970s experienced an unprecedented wave of violent, sometimes spectacular crimes. Beginning with the Manson Family trial, America remained on edge throughout the decade as homicide rates soared and Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and the Son of Sam made gruesome headlines. Children were kidnapped collectively (the Chowchill...
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Sex was everywhere in the 1970s. No decade has witnessed such a seismic shift in sexual mores and customs. Premarital sex became socially acceptable while an increasing number of married couples experimented with swinging and other once-taboo activities. Pornography emerged from the shadows and gay men and women began to "...
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The second half of the 1970s began with much hope and promise. The 'long national nightmare' of Watergate was over and after a brief transition under President Ford, the country put Jimmy Carter in the White House. But things began to unravel almost immediately. Three Mile Island and Love Canal heightened environmental anx...
May 2018
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Although it began in the 1960s, many of the most dramatic and controversial events of the war in Vietnam occurred in the 1970s. The incursion into Cambodia, the shooting death of four students at Kent State University, the My Lai massacre court martial, the Paris peace talks, the release of the Pentagon Papers, the “Christ...
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Terrorism as we know it was essentially born in the 1970s. From the abduction and murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics to the murder of Lord Louis Mountbatten, a member of the British royal family, in 1979, the 1970s witnessed a horrific parade of kidnappings, hijackings and bombings. The Baader Me...
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Rarely has there been a decade of such musical diversity as the 1970s. Many of the greatest rock & roll bands of all time – the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who – were in peak form; new artists – The Eagles, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen – were emerging and altering the musical landscape. Sixties chart toppers like M...
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1972 began with the triumph of President Nixon's trip to Communist China and concluded with his landslide electoral victory over Sen. George McGovern. Sandwiched in between these historic events was a so called "third rate burglary" at a Washington office complex known as Watergate that led to the only presidential resigna...
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In the 1970s television matured into the medium we know today. There was a new candor to network programming as reflected in shows like MASH, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the half-hour comedies of Norman Lear. The miniseries and the made-for-TV movie were born as was Monday Night Football and Saturday Night Live.
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