CHAPTER 2
Baby Boomers: The Elephant in the Python
“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.”
—Alan Bennett, Getting On (1972)
Critical Events in the Lives of Baby Boomers
1960 John Kennedy elected
1961 Bay of Pigs
1961 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 John Kennedy assassinated
1964 Passage of the Civil Rights Act
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy assassinated
1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots
1969 Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix die
1969 Man walks on the moon
1969 Woodstock
1973 Watergate
1974 Nixon resigns and is pardoned
1974 Arab oil embargo
1976 Jimmy Carter elected
1979 Hostages taken in Iran
1980 Reagan elected; Iran hostages released
1980 John Lennon assassinated
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