"For the next hour think of your television as a time machine, and think of this not as a television studio, but as a combination of your grandmother's attic and the old neighborhood. Welcome to Our World, the stuff of yesterday. Stuff like the paperbacks we were reading; stuff like the clothes we were wearing, some of us. The toys we played with, what we watched and listened to and saw in the movies. Time traveling, each week a different time, each week a different trip." We begin with fun in the sun on Cocoa Beach where a room at the Holiday Inn was $22.00 a night and a martini cost one dollar. The U.S. was preparing for a manned mission to the moon. NBC would cancel two million dollars of programming to bring 30 hours of coverage of the flight. The preparation, flight and moon landing were detailed by extensive use of film and interviews by many of the participants, e.g., Jim Mizell, rocket engineer, Chris Kraft, Jr., director of flight operations, Jules Bergman, news correspondent, Steve Bales, controller. We also hear from Gunter Wendt. The man who closed the hatch on each Apollo flight. Also a short clip of President Nixon. Kraft noted that the average age of his team was 26 years. A voice recording of President announcing the desire to place a man on the moon by the end of the decade was also heard.
There were events happening up the coast that summer too. In New York words by correspondent Lou Chioffi and pictures described the funeral for Judy Garland. Liza Minnelli comments. Then a bit further up the coast at Chapaquiddik, we hear about Ted Kennedy's accident which left a woman dead. People tell their reaction's to the event.
Then on the gulf coast, Charles Murphy tells us in words and pictures of the destruction brought on by hurricane Camille, which left 256 dead. Murphy relates that 23 people who were having a hurricane party also died.
On the west coast, we are reminded of the "Tate-LaBianca" murders. Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant, was the wife of movie producer Roman Polanski. Sharon and four friends, three males and one other female, were killed by followers of Charles Manson. Later, Rosemary and Leno LaBianca were found dead, as reported by Dick Shoemaker. John Phillips, a frequent visitor to the Tate home, and Don Steiers, a neighbor to the LaBiancas, also comment.
The Vietnam war was still raging which prompted anti-was protests and counter culture movements. Arlo Guthrie had a song "Alice's Restaurant" which became popular and was written from his personal experience. It was later made into a movie in which he had as many of the people he could find that were involved in his arrest for littering and his objection to the government trying to draft him. Guthrie also performed at Woodstock. About two and a half million people gathered in a 17 mile circle. They wanted to show that they could have a good time without being policed and without their parents. George McGovern comments on the President's proposal to bring some men home from Vietnam.
The Smothers Brothers television show had been canceled because their satire was too controversial. They are shown performing part of a song, and they then comment on the cancellation. Laugh-In was another show which had its own censor. Dick Martin relates the method they used to get material past the censors. They would present two jokes at the censors knowing that one would be banned, but the other would get through. Hee-Haw was tops in the ratings and they said it was a down home version of Laugh-In.
And then: Life and Look magazines were popular picture magazines...Look cost fifty cents. The Rolling Stons big hit was "Honky Tonk Woman." "The Love Bug" was the top box office grosser. "True Grit" with John Wayne came out. Wayne won an Oscar for Best Actor. Charles Evers, brother to Medgar Evers, became the first black mayor of Atlanta in a hundred years. Diahann Carroll was the first on television to portray a black who wasn't a servant. President Nixon predicted a man on Mars by the year 2000. Warren Burger became the fifteenth Chief Justice. Don Drysdale of the Brooklyn Dodgers retired. Joe Namath retired because he owned a bar, he sold the bar and returned. O.J. Simpson joined the Buffalo Bills. Maureen Connolly (tennis), Rocky Marciano (boxing), Frank Loesser (composer), and Sen. Everett Dirkson died. At the A&P, sirloin steak was $1.09 a pound and bread was $0.49.
There were events happening up the coast that summer too. In New York words by correspondent Lou Chioffi and pictures described the funeral for Judy Garland. Liza Minnelli comments. Then a bit further up the coast at Chapaquiddik, we hear about Ted Kennedy's accident which left a woman dead. People tell their reaction's to the event.
Then on the gulf coast, Charles Murphy tells us in words and pictures of the destruction brought on by hurricane Camille, which left 256 dead. Murphy relates that 23 people who were having a hurricane party also died.
On the west coast, we are reminded of the "Tate-LaBianca" murders. Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant, was the wife of movie producer Roman Polanski. Sharon and four friends, three males and one other female, were killed by followers of Charles Manson. Later, Rosemary and Leno LaBianca were found dead, as reported by Dick Shoemaker. John Phillips, a frequent visitor to the Tate home, and Don Steiers, a neighbor to the LaBiancas, also comment.
The Vietnam war was still raging which prompted anti-was protests and counter culture movements. Arlo Guthrie had a song "Alice's Restaurant" which became popular and was written from his personal experience. It was later made into a movie in which he had as many of the people he could find that were involved in his arrest for littering and his objection to the government trying to draft him. Guthrie also performed at Woodstock. About two and a half million people gathered in a 17 mile circle. They wanted to show that they could have a good time without being policed and without their parents. George McGovern comments on the President's proposal to bring some men home from Vietnam.
The Smothers Brothers television show had been canceled because their satire was too controversial. They are shown performing part of a song, and they then comment on the cancellation. Laugh-In was another show which had its own censor. Dick Martin relates the method they used to get material past the censors. They would present two jokes at the censors knowing that one would be banned, but the other would get through. Hee-Haw was tops in the ratings and they said it was a down home version of Laugh-In.
And then: Life and Look magazines were popular picture magazines...Look cost fifty cents. The Rolling Stons big hit was "Honky Tonk Woman." "The Love Bug" was the top box office grosser. "True Grit" with John Wayne came out. Wayne won an Oscar for Best Actor. Charles Evers, brother to Medgar Evers, became the first black mayor of Atlanta in a hundred years. Diahann Carroll was the first on television to portray a black who wasn't a servant. President Nixon predicted a man on Mars by the year 2000. Warren Burger became the fifteenth Chief Justice. Don Drysdale of the Brooklyn Dodgers retired. Joe Namath retired because he owned a bar, he sold the bar and returned. O.J. Simpson joined the Buffalo Bills. Maureen Connolly (tennis), Rocky Marciano (boxing), Frank Loesser (composer), and Sen. Everett Dirkson died. At the A&P, sirloin steak was $1.09 a pound and bread was $0.49.