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Decades after, ’60s sway remains
By Rene DeCair
Asw-r at* fcj Vi
Director Oliver Slone *, soon
In he released .movie about
'President Kennedy's assussin.i
lion is advertised us H K the
story that vs > tn'l g; i ays av
And like The I U>< irs. Stone's
previous film about a 1 units
event, It's' counting on public
interest In that famous decade
to bring in ho*-offire dollars
And many (tenpin includ
ing (>Us ai tivists and UOs aerify
ists Itellevi |iu bill fascina
tion with the era that won't go
assay, goes beyond tin music
and tlie assassination drama
The litis was a Utile of cul
tural experimentation" after a
lime of ( ulturai oppression.'
said Jac k Whalen University
assiM late professor of mu 10I0
«y
Whalen Ittmself an anti war
activist in the bOs and in
yolyed in neighborhood urpin
i/ing in Philadelphia, said the
dis ade changed things i ulturai
l\ sin h as (he way people
ijressed and thought about hoys
they lived And once that has
happened you can't pul the ge
till’ ha. k It) the bottle
Hut the genie hasn't only en
thralled those who I i veil
through that time
Howard Hrotine, co-dlrector
of the University s Survival
( enter, which works on many
environmental issues, said
there is an interest in the MK
among thi- present college gen
eration because a lot happened
then
I think there s always going
to is- nostalgia." Hrotine said
it's one thing to la- wearing
tie-dyes, listening to Jim! Hen
dris and dot ng acid, he
saiil Hut ys hen you get into ai
lisisin it s a whole different
thing "
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An anti war protest on campus during the late '60s is just one aspect
ol that era that tascmates people even decades later.
'There is a lot of stuff I
wouldn't vvnnt to repeal,'
Brotine said "A lot of people
tried to tune m, turn on and
dropped out In my opinion,
people should have tuned in.
turned on end kicked some
I1SS
Lisa Low rent e. director of the
Hluc.k Student Union, echoed
Brotlne's sentiments Blot k stu
dent activists also use the '(VOs
ai lions as ,1 guide and as a mo
11\ ational force, she said
I belies i' our generation is
going ba< k to the (>0s.' Law
renee said "(We re) betommg
more aware of our culture and
our history and becoming
proud to lie hint k
But we have to take into
consideration that the times
h a\e i hanged," s h e s a i d
In the tit) s. Lawrence said,
black students were lighting to
gain rights they never had in
this country In the UOs we re
lighting lor something that's be
ing taken awa\ from us." she
said
Lauren Kessler, assix inte pro
fessor of journalism and author
of the book, \ Iter All //lese
Wars tills lilculs in n Viffi-ri-nt
World. said 1 hill ill though thr
lids was a long time ago "it's
not like dead history "
Kessler, a tills activist and
■current activist in the women s
movement, said the political
concerns of the earlier era, sue h
as the environment and rai ism
remain today.
They were not solved then.
Kessler said “So there is a con
tinuous thread of ( oncern “
Whalen, who taught a (hiss
on activism, said when many oi
Ins students looked at films of
the (ids, they liked what they
saw and felt something was
missing in their lives
A lot of them seemed to
wish they could have lived
then." Whalen said But he
tried to tell them not all was
rosy then
“Don't over-romant icize the
events of that generation
Whalen said lie would tell stu
dents “I would urge people to
find new yvavs to make tins so
r ifty live up to its democ ratic
promise
KENNEDY
Continued from Page ^
remembered lor some of Us ilounfalls mii h .is the
Bay of i'igs invasion 'but he h.imi ! around long
enough lo alienate groups of u« tcty the n,n most
presidents .lo, SouIIhvi‘11 said
Questions ulioul Kennedy s death remain tinan
swered for Jack Whalen. associate proii'ssoi and
head of flic soi iologv department ai the Universe
i\ i fii' news of Kennedy's murder y\ ,is a rude
■osakcnlng lor linn
'Being young. ! guess. I was so siunin'il by the
idea thal someone could shout [fie president,
said Whalen, who was 1-1 a! the Inn. \ou f'ni
surprised if someone doesn't take a sfiol a! a pres
idenl during his term
Oswald
Lee Marvel Oswald the 24 year old ex Marine
who was charged with Kennedy s killing, told po
lice he was innocent of the crime (!■■ never went
to trial beiause nightclub owner |ui k Ktiby sliot
and killed Oswald N'oy 24
In the Warren Commission report. Oswald is
quoted as telling police My wife and I 11K. the
President's family I am not a malcontent Noth
mg irritated me about the President
The Warren Commission determined that lu
had committed the crime, basing its conr lusions
on several fat tors Iwewltness testimony was giv
i'll by people who had seen him Nov 22 in the
Texas Book Depository in Dallas where he was
employed and from where he ysas alleged to have
fired his rifle
The Commission determined that he may have
been motivated by a number of factors Me at
tempted to defei t to the Soviet l Inion in 1 ‘lf>H and
ysas apparently a devout Marxist Me yvas also a
member of the l air Play for (diha t ommittee, at
a time when tensions between the C S and Cuba
were at an all-time high. y\i!h the Cuban missile
crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion tfi.it occurred
111 the l'it.2 and 1'♦*. I
Was Connally the target?
A tyvist on the theory of Oswald's motives
emerged in 19H'i with the public ation of j.imi --
Kc ston s book I'hc Great Exportations nl lohn
(.onnalh Connally was the governor ol Texas m
196.1 ami was m the from scat of the Kennedy s
limousine in Dallas on Nov
Koston writes that Oswald was Kennedy's as
sassin. but that he was aiming lor Connally and
not the President
Oswald had received an undesirable dis
charge from the Marine ( orps in January luoj
The action Heston writes was prompted by Os
" aid S request lor Soviet citizenship and Ills
threat to turn military sec rets over the Soviets
During that same month. Oswald wrote to (am
nallv who had resigned six weeks earlier as the
Si c n-tary of N.ny Oswald requested that Conn.ll
iy a fellow native ol Port Worth, repair tin- darn
el ge done to me and my family
Connally responded by yvriting that the matter
had been turned over to the new Set rotary of the
Nay y Oswald felt spurned. Heston writes, and re
sented Connally'* indifference
Oswald's wife, Marina, testified before the War
reu Commission three times During her final
round of questioning, she made the following
statements
I feel in my own mind that Lee did not have
President Kennedy as a prime target when he as
sussmated him
She was then asked who the target was
I think it was Connally," she replied "That’s
my personal opinion, that he was shooting .it
Covernor Connally I don't think he hud any idea
cone erning President Kennedy "
Heston also writes that a Dallas lawyer named
Carroll Jamagin testified that he overheard a con
versation between Huby and Oswald in Huby's
nightclub Oct 4 larnagm reconstructed the con
versation on paper and mailed and account of it
to 1 Ldg.ir Hoover at the FBI.
larnagm recalls that the two spoke of Oswald
receiving a payment "after the job is dune, cits
c ussing where it should take place and the possi
ble eonsequem ns
Are you sure you can do the jot) without hit
ting anvlxidy hut the Governor7" Huby reportedly
asked
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