Lewis-Palmer High School Monument Colorado 1972

 

Elvis Presley was his Idol

Listened to Rock and Roll liked Simon and Garfunkel

My dad's biggest fear while being a teenager in the 60's was the fact that he was in the draft. He did not want to go to war.

 

Wore blue jeans,button up shirts and cowboy boots.

My father was aware of the events happening politically especially with the Atomic bombs. He remembers the Cuban missile crisis very well. 

Teenagers now adays don't respect authority as much as they use to.

 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, it was somewhat rebellious.

 

He remembers always having a TV but his friend had the first color TV in 1965, they would watch watch Walt Disney.

Pet rocks in a box, lava lamps, and hoola hoops were all the craze.

My dad liked using slang as a kid like spaz or bozo.

 

Cowboys and Hippies were the cliques, he didn't stay in a specific group.

My dad was very concerned about the threat of atomic war. It was very scary that you could die at anytime.

 

His first car was a Volkswagen Golf and his first job was pouring concrete, also he worked as a nurses aid in a hospital.

African Americans were discriminated against and racism was an every day occurrence.

 

My dad was in second grade when Kennedy was shot. He watched news coverage in class.

Remembers Johnson was sworn in on an airplane, 3-4 yrs later he was re-elected and escalated the war in vietnam. Also created the great society; the war on poverty.

 

Was in the draft for Vietnam, the protests were all young people, and the protests were so bad that it seemed like the country was unravelling some were peaceful protesters and some weren’t, a lot of people didn’t want a war and didn’t see it as needing to be fought, so they didn’t want there to be a draft.

Tevevision coverage of the Vietnam war was normal and it brought the war into our livingrooms. 

College was important and he was the first in his family to go to college.