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The speaker is John Steinbruner. I conducted this interview with him in 1989. His specialty was public policy and he taught public policy at MIT, Harvard, the John Kennedy school, and led the school of public policy and international security at University of Maryland. He was also a leader at the Brookings Institute and the center for international and security studies. I selected him to be interviewed because of his position which was neither left nor right during the 1960s. He died in 2015.

I have a growing relationship with my subscribers that includes asking me questions which I try to answer in videos like this one. Storytelling isn't easy. Most of you know that. The subtleties I describe in the short video will hopefully help all those who would like to create video stories, interview relatives and close friends, etc., to do more powerful interviews. But also, if you are merely a viewer, what I am saying here may help you to perceive why certain stories and storytellers affect you as they do and why others do not. If you are not a subscriber I hope that this encourages you to become one. Video professionals and students who I have connected with have found these insights help to create more powerful video experiences.

I have asked my subscribers to send videos to me of stories they would like to share–mostly feeling that their stories can help others. Khara submitted her story with the hope that it would help others. I believe that it will. She survived an ordeal and has become an author and as she says, “an esoteric astrologer.” She can be reached at www.sublimevortexastrology.com. If you have a story to tell I would encourage you to subscribe and look at the community pulldown menu on my channel page. It gives you the info you will need to create a video which I can then edit and post (and you can as well). Thank you Khara.

activist in Mississippi helping Black Americans to fill out all the forms so they could get the right to vote. I will be posting other clips from his interview, done by me in 1989, as a part of my 6 part PBS television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. Back in the mid-sixties I did several films on the civil rights movement and the voter registration drive and found the black church totally supportive and many white churches equally supportive.

The speaker is Carl Oglesby, a noted libertarian and 1960s Vietnam war political activist. I interviewed him in 1989. He is not a baby boomer and was born during the “silent generation”. Of all of the hundreds of people who I interviewed at that time, I found him the most articulate. He was one of the original founders of the students for a Democratic Society (SDS). During his days, he was a writer and a journalist and a professor at MIT among other universities. He wrote several books, most notably one called “Who Killed JFK.” search his name on my YouTube channel to find other comments by him.

The speaker is Ed Sidey from Greenfield Iowa. He was a lifelong newspaperman and the editor of the Adair County Free Press (now part of the Carroll Daily Times) in Iowa. I conducted this interview with him in 1989 speaking about the 1950s and 1960s. His ancestors started the newspaper 125 years before he and his brother sold it later in their lives. I was trying to get perspective from Americans of all stripes and he felt he was painting a picture of the way most of the folks in this town felt back then.

The speaker is Carl Oglesby, a noted libertarian and 1960s Vietnam war political activist. I interviewed him in 1989. He is not a baby boomer and was born during the “silent generation”. Of all of the hundreds of people who I interviewed at that time, I found him the most articulate. He was one of the original founders of the students for a Democratic Society (SDS). During his days, he was a writer and a journalist and a professor at MIT among other universities. He wrote several books, most notably one called “Who Killed JFK.” search his name on my YouTube channel to find other comments by him.

Back 30+ years ago my team recorded this therapy session at a church in St. Louis Missouri. Young people were sharing their stories of what it was like to grow up with a dad who had come back from the Vietnam War. I felt for these kids and for the veterans who returned with PTSD and other mental and physical challenges. The names of these young people are lost in my files (destroyed in a fire). I would love to reach out to them today to hear what happened to them and to their fathers as time went on.

The students rebelling in this 1969 documentary film were part of A college based organization of radical students called the Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. They disrupted many university campuses. This documentary captures a bit of what they were saying and a bit of how other students were reacting. In almost every case, their disruptions did cause the universities to make some changes but most students did not support how they shut down free speech and in some cases, university classes. As a young documentary filmmaker, these folks were prime targets because they were always dramatic and engaged in activities that were provocative. After Kent State, this college movement very quickly quieted down and things returned somewhat to normal, although what segment of the student population that had left college never returned.