They say.
We shouldn't have the United States.
So help me God.
As the Vietnam War raged on, 1969 saw a new face in the White House.
We see the hope of tomorrow in the youth of today.
I know America's youth.
I believe in it.
But as the year continued, it was obvious that the Nixon administration would not be
attuned to the voice of the people.
Vice President Agnew called them names.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize
themselves as intellectuals.
But by 1969, the voices of protest were no longer to be ignored.
Watching America's young men become embroiled in a senseless war had mobilized the country
and protesters were omnipresent.
Julie Nixon expressed the belief that protesters were just loud.
I think that the protesters are a very vocal minority.
I think that they are the ones who have gotten the most publicity.
And I think that if you look around, there is such a small percentage that it's unfair
to say that this is the age of protest and that our generation is one of protest.
But many in Julie's generation came together to form their own nation, called Woodstock.
They danced, made love, and braved the elements in a celebration of joy and rebirth that signified
a new age of innocence and enlightenment.
John Lennon and his wife tried a bed-in for peace with mixed results.
You are just two dirty, filthy creeps, completely nuts.
We judge junkies as the lowest creeps on this earth, and you two are the lowest.
We spit on filth such as you.
Charming, isn't it?
With John and Yoko bedded, others were exploring new vistas on the cultural horizon.
Gather round, music lovers.
We have a treat just for you.
In Paris, music of the future, it says here makes its debut, a symphony for sheet steel
and glass tubes.
The ushers will now pass among you and hand out the earplugs.
And now, for a look at the world of art.
Did I hear someone say, what's new?
Well, in the wild and sometimes wacky world of art, this is.
Its name, kinetic sculpture.
Sheldon Macklin created these avant-garde tinker toys reverting, so he says, to the
simplest man-made objects or raw material.
It's certainly simple.
A carefully contrived combination of articles common to everyone's garage, cellar, or attic
come together in a veritable symphony of cute, cunning, kinetic quivering, campy, and crazy.
One good spring deserves another, but this has got to be the most nervous art form since
Lady Godiva took her famous kinetic cantor.
Nice try, Sheldon.
London's Hyde Park becomes a hippie festival as some 3,000 so-called flower children gather
to preach love, peace, and legalized pot, marijuana to us.
The colorful chaotic congregation use posters to plead their cause.
A confiscated accordion used to accompany Buddhist chants and a speedily removed smoke
bomb were the only incidents.
The nonviolent demonstration brought stares, gasps, and chuckles.
And this just has to be the live-and-end.
Cape Cod hippies conduct a paint-in at the famous Provincetown Art Colony where all a
body has to do is stand around and automatically he's in the show.
Notice the chain reaction enthusiasm.
The psychedelic murals dress up anybody's epidermis, but there are certain technical
problems encountered when the artist is confronted by a ticklish situation.
This one is certainly the cat's whiskers, but I've seen the one I want.
Just wrap it up.
She'll look lovely in the den.
Body painting?
Well, yes, but some people got carried away with it.
One artist used live nude models smothered with paint to create his masterpieces.
It may not have been as precise as using a brush, but washing up afterwards must have
been fun.
It was all part of what was being called the permissive society.
Art, music, and films were allowed to run free, leading to a new era of unrepressed
sexuality.
Typifying this permissiveness were films like The Stewardesses.
This film, like its inevitable sequels involving other career gals, followed the romantic escapades
of a group of young fly girls as they jet around the world to exotic locations and far
out night spots.
Much of the time was taken up with dressing for dates and, of course, undressing for dates.
These women aren't stewardesses, but they'd like to look like them.
Not wanting to be swept aside by the country's youth movement, they are exercising to keep
fit.
But in 1969, even grandmas had their own beauty contests.
A contest for glamorous grannies who could give Miss America a run for her money.
Oh, Grandma, what nice legs you have.
It's grandmother's answer to this age of bikinis and miniskirts, but despite the absence of
both, the grandladies certainly look grand in swimsuits, chic enough for any beach.
Gals, you are simply a svelte bunch.
Now it's up to the judges.
The winner, Mrs. Rosemary Sachs, twice a granny, twice married, one month away from her third
marriage, admits to 48 years.
Good going, Graham.
What's the new look?
It's the look-again look of conspicuous beauty, meaning that more girls will be showing more
of their femininity.
And to get back to makeup, here's how to make a bareback attract a following.
Un-tan tones, a shade darker than the ladies' facial makeup, give this retreat a victorious
flavor.
A coquettish beauty mark?
That's a rear guard.
Come on, if we ever saw one.
You'll be putty in your soft caressing hands if you give them the same loving attention
you do your face.
But in case you hadn't noticed, there's a new down-plunging look in necklines which
means whole new worlds for the beauty industry to conquer.
Requirements, first the right figure with some help from the experts, then the right
gown to highlight the glowing all-over loveliness.
There's no limit to beauty horizons today, as described by McCall's editors.
Poolside or under the stars, the look-again look is a look that's a long way from just
powdering one's nose.
And to quote a male viewpoint, the more you see of the look, the harder it is not to.
Look that is.
Now let's look at something a bit more sophisticated, metallic dresses straight from Paris.
They certainly beat those boring American fashions.
Dresses like these won't ever go out of style, well at any rate they'll never wear out.
These dresses cost about $1,200 and come complete with accessories and spare parts.
Chic, ménon?
Oh well, let's do some channel hopping and see what's happening in England.
London hippies refuse to be upstaged by Paris, so they hold their own hippie fashion show
in a psychedelic Chelsea showroom.
It's a bloomin' wearin', that's what it is.
The flower people easily mix engine with modern shirtless, but the prices are like reasonable,
about $27,000.
So hippies don't drop out, dress up and turn on.
At the World Pocket Billiards Championships, this little lady is not a competitor and it's
a good thing because she could give the big boys a tough time.
While her daddy watches, seven-year-old Jean Baloukas starts to clean off the table with
the skill of a mini Minnesota fance.
Out of six children, Jean has been playing since she was four.
She beats her father regularly in a 50-point game every night after dinner.
He runs a pool room in Brooklyn.
Close up on a pocket-sized queen of the cue stick.
1969 saw the surprise football victory of the New York Jets in the Super Bowl.
Led by quarterback Joe Namath, the Jets squeaked by the Baltimore Coats to become the first
American football league team to win the title.
But the real sports miracle came at Shea Stadium, where the New York Mets, under the orchestration
of manager Casey Stengel, took the World Series in four straight games.
After seven years of being baseball's buffoons, the Mets were now the undisputed world champions.
A special kind of automobile show in the Senate garage on Capitol Hill.
They all look like conventional cars, but they have one major difference.
Their power supply is electric.
Smooth, silent, economical, with no gasoline fumes from the exhaust, the electric automobile
will help in the battle against air pollution in the cities.
The batteries are rechargeable overnight.
So, maybe there's an Edison in your future.
Japan's thriving electronic industry has come up with another first, twin-picture TV, suitable
for viewing front or back.
Beams from electronic guns hit one screen, bounce off, and then hit the reverse screen.
Decorators plan to use it as a unique room divider on a large desk or table for double
viewing, or as a twin monitor for industrial facilities.
This prototype model has no knobs for picture or channel selection, but is adjusted by remote
control.
Back-to-back screens will give you wall-to-wall TV with two sides to every story, and the
late movie will be a double feature.
The annual bed show in Tokyo displays some plain and fancy products to aid sleep.
For instance, this space bed with automatic canopy has stereo and TV, and only $1,600.
For devoted parents who want to be close to the little one, this double deck arrangement,
perfect for the 2 a.m. feeding.
You say you toss and turn at night?
You wrestlers, you can't find a comfortable position?
Well, here's the answer.
A living, breathing mattress that tosses and turns without you moving a muscle.
You say you don't want to be square and you've always loved merry-go-rounds?
Well, here's your bed, no cash down.
Use your revolving charge account.
Many couples prefer twin beds, but this arrangement gives you a chance to change your mind.
Just press the button and presto, immediate togetherness isn't science cooperative.
Fun and games in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where a couple of builders flipped and finished
off a development with one house upside down.
No, they didn't get the blueprints upside down.
Actually, they're crazy like a pair of foxes, since the dipsy dwelling is drawing record
numbers of visitors, and everyone is a prospect for a right-way-up model.
That's an amazingly successful gimmick.
After a few minutes inside, it's hard to tell which way is really up.
In case anyone's interested, the house sells for $11,500.
Unless you want it right-side up, then it's only $10,750.
White houses were Boris Karloff's territory.
Born William Henry Pratt, the master of menace died in 1969, after almost four decades of
providing shrieks and shivers to a startled movie-going audience.
Outwardly, Karloff was a kind and literate man, but on screen, you never knew what skeletons
were hidden in his closet.
Judy Garland, on the other hand, was a youthful idol with whom America grew up.
She radiated beauty, charm, and talent, but her personal life was in turmoil.
Alcohol and pills contributed to her death, apparently by her own hand.
Judy had at last found the end of the rainbow.
The mostest of everything describes the new giant of commercial aviation, the Jetliner
747.
Contrasted with great conventional aircraft, the 747 will carry 490 passengers.
This is more than double current capacity.
Its engines will be twice as powerful as today's airliner.
An idea of the size of the engines is emphasized by two stewardesses perched on the rim of
a jet.
Stepping inside the cabin is like entering a small theater.
Pilots, stewardesses, and a passenger or two provide realistic perspective relative to
passageways and rows of seats as they conduct an inspection of this mock interior.
The first of these great birds, 25 and all, at a total cost of $525 million, will be delivered
by the Boeing Company to Pan American Airways in 1969.
Île de Lavain is France's Eden in the Mediterranean.
Here, by tradition, one worships the sun and to wear a bikini is to be overdressed.
No cares, no automobiles, no laundries.
But what's this?
This, on the other side of the island, is the missile age budding into paradise.
The French have chosen to put a national study and research center for aeronautics right
in the midst of nature in the raw.
The missile's name is Berenice, and she's to be launched to measure kinetic heat upon
her reentry into the atmosphere at the speed of Mach 2.
All the care is taken to ensure a thorough tracking and observing of Berenice.
Everyone is at his station and everything under control as countdown time approaches.
The seconds take off, and then Berenice takes off.
All eyes are focused on the trail of the mess, over.
Life can be so starkly simple on the Île de Lavain.
One wonders why take off to explore other heavens.
But take off to explore the heavens, man certainly did.
In July of 1969, years of frustration and dreams melded into reality as three American
pioneers set out to conquer the final frontier.
The whole world was watching as a flawless takeoff was followed by a textbook mission.
Although it had been practiced and performed many times before, all who witnessed it held
their breath in anticipation.
From deep space, Earth was viewed from a new perspective.
No national boundaries existed.
Of course, some simple human habits were still observed.
And then, the Moon.
Eagle, we got you now, it's looking good, over.
Good radar data.
We're now in the approach phase, everything looking good.
We're go, same type, we're go.
Altitude, velocity, light.
50 feet, 15 forward, 11 forward, coming down nicely, 200 feet, four and a half down, five
and a half down, 60 seconds, lights on, down two and a half, forward, forward, that's 40
feet down, two and a half, picking up some dust, four forward, four forward, drift into
the right a little, contact light, okay, engine stop, we copy you down, Eagle, Tranquility
Base here, the Eagle has landed, I'm going to step off the land now, that's one small
step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
The astronauts did what all pioneers before them had, they left footprints, tested the
terrain, planted a flag, and left their mark, we came in peace for all mankind.
They saw the Earth as none had before, and leapt for joy, and the world would never be
the same.
Tranquility Base Houston, guidance recommendation is pings, you're cleared for takeoff.
Roger, understand, we're number one on the runway.
We're number one on the runway.
We're number one on the runway, we're number one on the runway, we're number one on the
runway, we're number one on the runway, we're number one on the runway, we're number one
on the runway, we're number one on the runway.