Kurlansky, Mark. These writings can be creative or presented as traditional history papers. Amazon Despite the imprimatur of a respected newsman, with Tom Brokaw feels more like educational material for a high school classroom than a full-length documentary.
A brief clip of Tom Brokaw on the nightly news has him sitting at a plain desk in front of a cheap cardboard map of Vietnam -- technologically a million miles away from the intricate sets and slick charts and graphics of contemporary news. Maybe the scope of this topic is just too big to tackle in 90 minutes; it's impossible to really discuss without examining a number of overlapping social revolutions — the civil rights movement, women's liberation, the drug culture, anti-war protests, the sexual revolution, countercultural art and music — that threatened to erase the status quo over the course of the decade.
Extended Activities The Year that Was As this documentary illustrates, was one of the most tumultuous, divisive, and hectic years in American history. Then, write an essay or create a report about this image or photo, explaining what it portrays and its significance in the context of How did this contingency ultimately affect the results of the Presidential Election?
Finally, why was the Senator assassinated?
The Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, sit-ins and riots became commonplace, leaders were assassinated on a seemingly regular basis, and social experimentation and psychedelic music became the rage in San Francisco and elsewhere. What were the various reactions to the assassination of Dr.