Sixties Television

[C. Dianne Zweig Editor's Desk]

Sixties Television

Sixties television gave us an ever expanding view of our world and everything in it---the good things as well as the bad things. On the one hand, we were thrilled and entertained as new technology gave us higher resolution pictures, colorimages, and even instant replay, to watch our favorite sit-coms, westerns, comedy variety, who-dun-it shows and sporting events, all with greater clarity. But on the other hand, we also watched such horrific events as the assassination of a sitting president, a presidential candidate, and a civil rights leader; an increasingly bloody civil war in southeast Asia; campus violence and urban racial strife. Sixties television changed not only the way that we saw our world at the time many of us were becoming teenagers, but gave us some pretty indelible images that we still remember today.

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