A church bombing in
Birmington, Alabama. left four young black girls dead. The attack on the
16th Street Baptist Church sparked further violence in the city, leaving two
more dead and 19 injured. The same year, Eugene "Bull" Conner the Police
Commissioner of Birmington, Alabama attacked peaceful non-violent black
protesters with dogs and fire-hose. This televised action alerted the nation
about the racial problems in the south After years of frustrating
investigations and delays, a Klux Klux Klansman was finally charged with the
bombing in 1977. Robert Chambliss, who was known as "Dynamite Bob," was
convicted of murder in the bombing in 1977 and died in prison. Ex-Klansman
Thomas Blanton Jr. was convicted of four counts of murder last year and was
sentenced to life in prison. A fourth suspect, Herman Cash, died in 1994
without being charged. Cherry was supposed to have gone on trial with
Blanton, but was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial. After
psychologists testified that Cherry was faking, the judge reversed himself
and declared Cherry competent. He went to Bobby Frank Cherry, age 71, was
found guilty.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/05/18/church.bombing/index.html
A
not-for-profit agency separate from the church, called the Historic Bethel
Baptist Church Community Restoration Fund, will handle donations.
Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil
Rights Movement
ROSA PARKS - ON THE BUS Shifting gears to the political circle.
11/03/05
NEWARK, N.J. - Hours after
attending the funeralof Rosa Parks, former
President Bill Clinton invoked
the civil rights
heroine's memory in
urging a largevoter turnout for Democrat Jon Corzine in Tuesday'sgubernatorial election.
Speaking to a crowd of several
thousand screaming, stomping and
cheering supporters at Essex
County Community College
Wednesday night, Clinton said it
would be a mistake for voters to
sit out next week's election.
"That woman we buried today
after 92 years of service to
this country, she had to try
three times before they would
even let her vote," Clinton
said. "You be there on November
8th." ... Source: WAYNE PARRY,
Associated Press Writer; cartoon
Vic Harville -
Nov
2, 2005
According to historians, James Blake, the Montgomery
City Lines bus driver who ordered Rosa Parks to the back of the bus, was in the
habit of passing any bus stop where Mrs. Parks stood. He knew she would
not pay her money in front, walk out around to the back door, board again and
sit down. She would always board the bus at the front door, pay, and take her
seat. After the incident, Blake would drive
his bus for 19 more years before retiring in 1974. He was bitter about his place
in the history books, telling a Washington Post reporter in 1989, "I
wasn't trying to do anything to that Parks woman except do my job." Blake died
in 2002. Rosa Parks was sentenced to a $10 fine and court costs. In the opinion
of the American collective, a perfect way to spend ten dollars. Too bad we
cannot find people like Mrs. Parks for the Pentagon War Room.
Obituary - Guardian
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., the Senate's only
African-American member, said Parks and other activists helped change
history by participating in peaceful boycotts.
"It is a given that I would not be here today were
it not for this small woman," he said. "We honor them not by words, but by
continuing to face down injustice."
April 9, 2001
Web posted at: 4:01 p.m. EDT (2001 GMT)
April 2, 2001 - A judge rejected a request by
lawyers for Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry to move the trial out of
Birmingham, Alabama. The defense argued that pre-trial publicity and the
emotional nature of the case warranted a change of venue. The men face life in
prison if convicted of first-degree murder.
May 17, 2000 -- Former Ku Klux Klan members Thomas
Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry surrender to authorities after a Jefferson
County, Alabama, grand jury indicts on first-degree murder charges in connection
with the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls.
May 4, 2000 -- A lawyer for long-time bombing
suspect Bobby Frank Cherry says his client rejected a deal in which he would
receive probation if he pleaded guilty to transporting explosives over state
lines. Cherry continued to deny any involvement in the bombing. Cherry was in
jail in Texas on charges of raping his stepdaughter in 1971.
July 10, 1997
-- The FBI reopens its investigation
into the Birmingham church bombing after a secret, year-long review.
Full story
October, 1988 -- Federal and state
prosecutors reopen their investigation into the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
bombing after Gary A. Tucker, a former bus driver dying of cancer, said he
helped set the bomb. No new charges were filed.
October 29, 1985 -- Convicted bomber Robert Edward
Chambliss dies of natural causes at age 81 without ever publicly admitting any
role in the bombing.
1980 -- Jefferson County's district attorney
reopens the case after a U.S. Justice Department report found former FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover had blocked evidence that prosecutors could have used.
No additional charges were filed.
1977 -- Robert Edward Chambliss is convicted of one
count of murder in the death of 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair, one of four
African-American girls killed in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
1971 -- Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley
reopens the case.
1968 -- Federal authorities pull out of the
investigation without charges being filed.
June fifth 1968, 12.15am, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was
shot to death while making his way from the ballroom at the Ambassador Hotel,
Los Angeles, to give a press conference, after winning the California Primary.
April fourth, 1968, civil
rights leader Martin Luther King Junior, 39, was shot to death in Memphis,
Tennessee.
1965 -- Birmingham FBI agents recommended that at
least four suspects be charged with the bombing. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
blocked the prosecution of the suspects, saying the chance of winning a
conviction was "remote."
September
15, 1963
-- A dynamite bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham, Alabama, killing 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair and 14-year-olds
Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson.
"Not until the colossus of
segregation was challenged in Birmingham did the conscience of America begin to
bleed," he said in 1965, just a week after the Selma-to-Montgomery march.
"I remember in
Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there," he said in
his "I See the Promised Land" speech.
-John
Archibald
Store across the street from the
Straight Theatre
where I used to read cards - lifestyle counseling
Changing Threads
As Gandhi suggested,
Haight-Ashbury residents took to their own home-spun fabric,
woven and hand-dyed material,; they made
their own clothes, sandals and shoes
People
Are Taking
KPIX Channel 5
Talk Show
This page
contains information about the panel for the show, introductions, and some
of the discussion.
This is a rough
transcription because some words are not audible and hand gestures fit
for dialog in places. More about Hippie Language characteristics at the
'HIP' web page. A fashion show follows the panel.
continued from http://donnakova.tripod.com/film/pat.html
Ross Martin: They [49ers] did real good again last night. And they’re
probably - I think they’re going to do it again this year! I’m dressed a
little differently… [60s style.] They say 60s are comin’ back, as far as
fashion goes. This audience hopes not coming back as far as my fashion goes.
[enormous golden ‘peace symbol’ pendant.] Let’s look at Jennifer first.
[warm audience reaction] This is the 60s look but its kinda brought up to
the 90s. This is your outfit. I mean, you would wear this out on the
street…
Jennifer Montana: Yes. Now I wouldn’t be seen with you [audience laughs.]
This is what they call ‘groovy,’ Ross. I don’t know what they call that
[audience laughter, Ross gives a smile.]
RM: This is what they wore. The shoes, which you remember, Greg. [Greg is
outside camera range] You remember the shoes? And we’ve got the bell bottoms
– I used to have a butt to hold these up but I don’t anymore. The Nehru
jacket – do you remember those? I was told you’re not supposed to wear a
shirt with these. This is a shirt that has a look of Woodstock – when was
Woodstock? 1968? Something like that.
JM: [to Ross] You weren’t there…?
RM: I wasn’t there. What were you doing in the 60s?
JM: I was riding my bike – around the neighborhood.
RM: Riding her bike – isn’t she cut [audience laugh] I
want to tell you The New Government in San Francisco is where all my clothes
came from. Don’t rush the place! Let’s see, I graduated from college, I had
my first child, and you were riding a bike! Also show the peace sign that
people wore back then…
JM: The perfect shot would probably be your hand up
here [peace mudra]
RM: Yeah, doing something like this. But what was funny
was showing some people the peace sign that people wore back then. [Ross
recalls people in the 80s who did not remember what the peace sign looked
like.] They had the Mercedes-Benz emblem. Yeah, they had the Mercedes emblem
on the placard.
JM: I’m sorry. It’s hard for me to even concentrate
when I look over and see you. It’s hard to take you serious!
RM: We are going
to have a fashion show at the end of the program because Roberto Roblato,
a fashion designer for the new fall season is here and he says all the
60s fashions are being updated. We're going to see hip-huggers - we're
going to see the mini skirts, we're going to see the halter tops...
JM: Yeah,
and bell bottoms coming back...
RM: First of all,
we're going to meet some people who were very active in the 1960s. What
life is like for them in the 90s when they think about what they were
doing, some of the crazy things, in the 1960s. [the circular stage turns
and brings us face to face with the camera, crew, and audience.] Please
welcome them all to PEOPLE ARE TALKING. Michael, you look like you
should be right back [then] - but you dress like this today, don't you?
Michael: I
do.
RM: What do you
remember about the 60s and what exactly were you doing back then?
M. What was I
doing? It's hard to tell. Things were going, music, everything was
happening. grew up on the East Coast and the Mecca was obviously
Greenwich Village. As a result we were inundated by music by Hendrix, by
Cream - Fillmore East had been opened up by Bill Graham. A lot of new
sensations, a lot of love.
<snip>
RM: Chet Helms,
you were living in San Francisco in the 1960s. [to audience] He was
managing the Avalon Ballroom.
incredible
film of "All I ever wanted to do" [Dino's Song]
extract from "Monterey Pop"
...Quicksilver Messenger Service poster art lists @
Legend: Quicksilver,
c-z navigation
RM: And he was
manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company, which was a big rock
group to come out of the Bay Area. What do you remember about the 60s?
CH: Well, as I
think Robin Williams is fond of saying, "If you can remember the 60s,
you weren't really there. [audience laugh] Actually, a great deal. I
came out of a politically repressed Texas, the Eisenhower years...
Astrology, Aura themes, Numerology and
Kabbalah, Palmistry, Tarot, Tea Leaves and more were available at
the Straight Theatre, located at the corner of Cole and Haight
Street. Palms were also read at the I and Thou cafe next door -
Tarot across the street.
The Straight Theatre marquee display
was often just one word, "LOVE' - as a counterpoint to the
'Love Field' reference that aware people were thinking about in the era of
alternative cultures.
Metaphysics went mainstream - Tolkien was
'required reading' - The word 'zen' was introduced into the American
mainstream by Jerry Brown; 'transcendental meditation' was infused into
Western life by Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi, the Beatles' Indian spiritual guru.
He championed "yogic flying", said to be the ultimate level of
transcendence in which practitioners try to summon a surge of energy to
physically lift themselves off the ground. In the west
this is exoterically known as 'levitation' -
Christians refer to the event as an 'ascension.'
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978) The
Band's last stand at Winterland, San Franciso, 1976, is a testament to a bygone era. The Band bowed
out with an all-star concert featuring, among others, Neil Young, Van
Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Eric Clapton.
Early Dance and Concert Events
Grateful Dead
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Grass Roots
8/7/1966
Day Camp Benefit
Big Brother & the
Holding Company
Grateful Dead
Loading Zone
1/21-23/1966
Trips Festival
Jefferson Airplane
Charlatans
Great Society
Marbles
10/16/1965
A Tribute To Dr. Strange
Longshoremen's Hall
Saragossa Manuscript - Director:
Wojciech Has1965
Originally released in a cut version in the US, the film was
restored to it's original 175-minutes running time and premiered at
the New York Film Festival in September 1997. The restoration
project, supervised by Edith Kramer, was initially sponsored by
Grateful Dead's leader Jerry Garcia and later completed by Francis
Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. The restored version includes a
dedication to Jerry Garcia. Source: IMDb
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