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<text>
<title>
(1960s) Editor's Note
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1960s Highlights
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
Editor's Note
</hdr>
<body>
<p> The 1960s was a decade of social and political upheaval. Some
of this turmoil had positive results: the civil rights
revolution, John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a New Frontier and
the breathtaking advances in space helped bring about progress
and prosperity. Much, however, was negative: student and antiwar
protest movements, political assassinations and ghetto riots
roiled the U.S. and resulted in diminished respect for authority
and the law. The U.S.'s violent spasms were mirrored by leftist
youth revolt in Europe and Red Guard rampages in China.
</p>
<p> The decade began under the shadow of the Cold War, with
U.S.-Soviet tensions aggravated by the U-2 incident, the Berlin
wall, the Cuban missile crisis and the space race. It ended
under the shadow of the Viet Nam War, which deeply divided
Americans--and their allies--and undermined the country's
self-confidence and sense of purpose.
</p>
<p> TIME CAPSULE/THE 60S has been adapted and condensed from the
contents of TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine. The words, except
for connecting passages in brackets [], are those of the
magazine itself. The date at the beginning of each excerpt is
the issue date of the magazine.
</p>
<p> Everybody remembers the 1960s. Those who lived through the
decade, even if they were not civil rights marchers in Alabama,
hippies in Haight-Ashbury or soldiers in Viet Nam, felt the
impact of the events that shook the nation and the world; people
remember where they were when John Kennedy was shot and how they
stopped awestruck to watch on TV as men first walked on the
moon. And even those who did not live through the events
themselves, nevertheless know who the Beatles were, and what
"tune in, turn on, drop out" meant, and why we celebrate a
national holiday on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
</p>
<p> That is why making the selections for this TIME CAPSULE was
so difficult: everyone remembers the 1960s in his or her own
way. The reader should remember then that the acts of selecting
the texts and writing the bridging passages necessarily reflect
the assumptions and attitudes, conscious or unconscious, of this
decade and of the capsule's editor.
</p>
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</article>
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