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In reply to the discussion: 1968 (Your Help, Please!) [View all]senseandsensibility
(16,908 posts)Still, it was such an "out there" decade in every way, that I can still remember many of the highlights. Well, at least I can remember the ones at the end of the decade. JFK assassination is a blur. But I was older when his brother and MLK were killed. I do remember those, but through a very young child's eyes. I think one of the most striking memories for me was of the "hippies" and their cool music, clothes, and attitude. I lived in the Bay Area where it was all happening. My parents (0nly twenty-somethings at the time) took me to San Francisco to see the "hippies", almost as though they were objects to gaze at. I don't remember them laughing at them or ridiculing them, but they were considered something of interest. I may have been four or five, but I "got it" and their clothes and attitude influenced me for the next four decades (or more).