Transcript The Andy Griffith Show

Life in 1964
July 1964
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Top 10 songs of 1964
I want to hold your hand-The Beatles
She loves you- The Beatles
Hello Dolly!- Louis Armstrong
Oh pretty women- Roy Orbison
I get around- The Beach Boys
Everybody loves somebody-Dean Martin
We’ll sing in the sunshine- Gale Garnett
Where did our love go- Supremes
Do wah diddy diddy- Manfred Mann
Dancing in the street- Martha and the Vandellas
Do wah diddy diddy
There she was just a-walkin' down the street, singin' "Do
wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet, singin' "Do
wah diddy diddy dum diddy do"
She looked good (looked good), she looked fine (looked
fine)
She looked good, she looked fine and I nearly lost my
mind
Lyndon B. Johnson
Born August 27, at Stonewall, Texas. The first child of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., and
Rebekah Baines Johnson was born in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River.
He was named Lyndon Baines Johnson, and his grandfather declared he would grow
up to be a United States Senator. Three sisters and a brother followed: Rebekah,
Josefa, Sam Houston, and Lucia. March 19, birth of his first daughter, Lynda Bird.
1947-July 2, birth of his second daughter, Luci Baines. Elected Majority Leader of the
Senate. During his tenure as Senate Majority Leader, he served as Chairman of the
Democratic Policy Committee, Democratic Steering Committee, and Democratic
Conference of the Senate.
On July 2, while visiting George Brown's estate in Middleburg, Virginia, Johnson
suffered a severe heart attack and entered Bethesda Naval Hospital. On August 7, he
was released from Bethesda; on August 27, he returned to the LBJ Ranch to
recuperate. Johnson did not return to Washington and Capitol Hill until December.
July 13, 1960,Johnson was nominated for President of the United States at the
Democratic National Convention by the Speaker of the House of Representatives
Sam Rayburn; received 409 votes; nominated Vice President by acclamation on July
14. November 8, elected Vice President of the United States, and re-elected to his
third term in the United States Senate. The Kennedy-Johnson ticket defeated the
Nixon-Lodge ticket in one of the closest elections in American history.
The John F Kennedys
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, known as JFK, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. His father, Joseph Kennedy, Sr., was a wealthy investor and a
demanding father who expected his sons to be politically ambitious. When JFK was ten, his family moved to New York, and when it came time to enter high
school, he was sent to Choate, a prestigious Connecticut boarding school. He became very popular with his peers there, but managed only mediocre grades.
He had a similar experience at Harvard, which he attended between 1936 and 1940, while his father was serving as Ambassador to Great Britain and the
tensions in Europe that would eventually lead to World War II mounted. In correspondence to the U.S., Joe Sr. advocated support for the British policy of
appeasing Hitler so as to avoid a second world war. On a personal level, JFK felt continuously overshadowed by his older brother, Joseph Kennedy, Jr., who was
regarded as their father's favorite. World War II broke out despite the practice of appeasement, and America entered the war after Japan bombed Pearl
Harbor on December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt described it. JFK joined the Navy, where he eventually became
the captain of a PT boat in the South Pacific. He became a hero for saving his crew after his boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943. A year
later, however, his brother Joe Jr. was killed flying a mission over Europe. When the war ended in 1945, JFK became the vehicle for his father's ambitions.
Backed by Joseph Sr.'s immense financial and political clout, JFK was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts in November 1946. He
served in the House for six years, during which time the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union came to dominate world politics. At home,
paranoia about Communism enabled a maverick Senator from Wisconsin named Joseph McCarthy to conduct witch hunts for Communists and Communist
sympathizers, a practice that became known as "McCarthyism." JFK was frequently ill during these years. He was diagnosed with Addison's Disease, a
potentially fatal condition, in 1948, but cortisone treatments enabled him to fight the disease, and his condition was never revealed to the general public. In
1952, JFK ran successfully for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, in a year that saw Dwight Eisenhower elected president. The next year JFK married
Jacqueline Bouvier, a beautiful and cultured young woman who would become one of the most famous First Ladies in history. JFK was now one of the
Democratic Party's rising stars. He spent 1955 and 1956 writing Profiles in Courage (evidence suggests, however, that JFK's speechwriter, Theodore Sorensen,
actually wrote much of the book), which was a best-seller and won a 1957 Pulitzer Prize. In 1956, JFK was nearly selected a the Democrats' Vice-Presidential
candidate. Four years later, with the end of Eisenhower's second term, JFK's time had come: he won the 1960 Democratic nomination and defeated Richard
Nixon for the presidency. Early in his presidency, JFK butted heads with the Soviet Union and its volatile leader, Nikita Khrushchev. After a U.S.-backed invasion
of communist Cuba in April 1961 ended in disaster at the Bay of Pigs, Khrushchev concluded that JFK's administration was weak. In autumn 1962, the Soviet
Union began shipping nuclear missiles to Cuba, where they could be aimed at the United States from just a few hundred miles away. When JFK found out
about these missiles, he imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba and pondered an invasion. For two weeks, the world was on the edge of nuclear war, until
Khrushchev finally agreed to remove the missiles, ending the crisis. Within the larger context of the fight against Communism, which played such a large role in
defining American rhetoric and policy throughout the 1950s and 1960's, JFK increasingly involved the U.S. in a struggle to defend democratic South Vietnam
against Communist North Vietnam. This confrontation would eventually escalate into the Vietnam War, one of the least successful and most costly military
campaigns in U.S. history. On the domestic front, JFK founded the Peace Corps, a volunteer organization that sent young Americans overseas to work in Third
World countries. He backed investment in Latin America through the "Alliance for Progress," and joined with Khrushchev to sign a treaty limiting nuclear
testing. At home, many of his policy initiatives stalled in Congress, but he intervened quickly to prevent unfair business practices by the steel industry, and
offered cautious support for the rising Civil Rights Movement Throughout his presidency, JFK managed to create a public image immensely attractive to much
of America. He was the first "television President;" with his charm and good looks he took full advantage of that medium to capture and engage the hearts of
Americans (indeed, the relationship JFK shared with America has often been referred to as a love affair). JFK inspired in many a powerful optimism and
idealism, and he seemed poised to carry the U.S. out of trying times. His life and presidency were cut short, however, by an assassin's bullet on November 22,
1963, plunging the country into mourning. JFK's death was undeniably tragic, but it had the effect of cementing and amplifying his legacy. Though his moments
of presidential brilliance were tempered by instances of uncertainty, particularly in reference to the Civil Rights Movement and the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK
continues to be revered and loved. How much more he might have accomplished, in a United States that desperately needed unifying, is one of history's most
tantalizing questions.
The Andy Griffith Show
How is it that The Andy Griffith Show has endured on television for 50 years now? And what is it
about the notion of a community like Mayberry that continues to resonate with so many
Americans? Perhaps it was the level of honesty underneath the necessary artifice. "Everything we
said on the show we believed," Andy Griffith declared. "I suppose that's what made it work. We
never went for something we didn't believe. It was a good eight years for me, I'll tell you
that."Certainly at the beginning The Andy Griffith Show was a genuinely well-written and realized
show. That's the main reason the program has stayed popular, it stands as an idealized snapshot of
at least one vision of the American dream. It's true the production of the series coincided with one
of the most dramatic cultural upheavals in American history but the series reflected instead a
quaint community where the barber had as much influence as the mayor; where the most shocking
thing that happened was Aunt Bee picketing a construction site or the 'Fun Girls' speeding through
the center of town. The Andy Griffith Show was a spin-off, of sorts. The pilot had been integrated
into an episode of The Danny Thomas Show. Practically unheard of in the 1960s, the spin-off had
been accomplished on radio many times, but taking an established TV character and building a
series around him or her had never been attempted until Pete and Gladys in 1960 (a spin-off
of December Bride) and Petticoat Junction, which sprang from The Beverly Hillbillies in 1963.The
executive producer of the series was Richard O. Linke, Griffith's manager. It was producer Aaron
Ruben (writer for The Phil Silvers Show), Sheldon Leonard (producer of The Danny Thomas Show)
and Andy Griffith's attention to the scripts that made the series as engaging as it was flat-out funny.
It's no exaggeration to say the nation instantly fell in love with Mayberry's quirky inhabitants, The
Andy Griffith Show finished its first season as the number four show in the nation.
Being a teenager in 1964
The 2011 Corbin Foster Show
Corbin: Hi and welcome to the Corbin Foster show today we have a very special guest
with us lets give a warm welcome to Ponyboy Curtis . Thank you Ponyboy for coming on
the show I like the name by the way. Ponyboy: Oh my pleasure. Corbin: So we have a few
questions sent in are you up for answering some ponyboy? Ponyboy: Sure that would be
great. Corbin: Okay Ponyboy what was it like to be a teenager in 1964? Where there still
any separation of races still going on? –Selena. Ponboy: Well being only a teenager I
didn’t really notice it , it was just a part of life back then but now that I look back there
were still separation of bathrooms and water fountains and little stuff like that but
nothing HUGE. Corbin: Ponyboy what were some things you and your friends did when
you were a kid- Cheryl. Ponyboy: Well I remember me and my friends would always love
to just go outside and climb a tree , build forts, and stuff like that. As we know a lot has
changed since then now its all about tv and video games. Corbin: Speaking of tv what
were some of your favorite shows? Ponyboy: Well considering we only had 3 channels
there wasn’t much to watch that the whole family agreed on but my familys favorite show
to watch was “The Andy Griffith Show”. With tv it was like there ws a new Elvis Presley
movie every mont and when you would turn the tv off there was this one spot in the
middle that would glow white for about 15 minutes afterwards. Corbin: Well that’s about
all the time we have but im Corbin Ponyboy: And im Ponyboy. Corbin: Goodnight
everybody see ya next time.
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Editorial
While doing this project I have learned that life in the 60’s was very different
than the way we live now. Some of the things I found while doing research for
this project I never knew about and probably never would have unless I had
done so.