ABC News: 15th Anniversary of Woodstock

[hadrons]

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Peter Jennings first asked "So do you want to feel old???" when introduction this 1984 segment ... additional Entertainment Tonight segment from that year is right after.

[ben_meyers]

1. Has anyone ever wondered how in an age before

The web, chat rooms, texting, cell phones, 24/7 cable channels, MTV or any of these vehicles of communication and distraction, my generation was able to create gatherings like Woodstock (no, I'm one of the 12 people in the world that don't claim to have been there) Chicago, marches on Washington (levitating the Pentagon) and all of what went on in the 60's.

Or did I just answer my own question.

[aquart]

2. "Claim" to have been there?

I may never forget the smell. Or wading in mud (I hoped it was mud) up to my knees to use the port a potties? It was a cow pasture. The food booths were erected on redolent manure.

[ben_meyers]

3. That was a bit of hyperbole

I know there were 400,000 people at the concert, but I think there must be millions that claim to have been.

But my question stands, how did we do it back then?

[stlsaxman]

9. a truly baffling question- i was just old enough to know what was happening during that era.

but was aware of ALL the implications of the "youth movement". being in 8th grade at a Catholic school there were lay teachers working off deferments. the order of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM's) were liberation theology nuns and anti-war.

the teachers we had gave us books like "Do It", "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", "Nigger" by Dick Gregory (a local hero) and "Steal This Book" by Abbie. We kept abreast of current events and read daily news reports of the Chicago 7 trial and the National Moratorium.

Everyone cared. A LOT. Everyone knew what was going on thanks to Uncle Walter Cronkite who we watched religiously.

When the Kent State Massacre happened, the following morning we filed into class and our teacher had a copy of the paper on each desk. the first thing he had us do was open our history books to the page about The Boston Massacre and asked us what the differences were. we came to this parallel-

Boston- Redcoats v a crowd of protesters
Kent- ONG v a crowd of protesters

Boston snowballs were thrown by protesters and the Redcoats shot into the crowd killing four.
Kent- stones were thrown by protesters and the Ohio National Guard shot into the crowd killing four.

Then our teacher told us the famous Santana quote- "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

To answer your question- i have absolutely no idea of the how.

[iconicgnom]

10. kudos to your school! You're very lucky -- 8th grade, no less! APPLAUSE!

[AndyA]

6. So, you had a really good time, right?

Sounds lovely. I was too young to go, but I remember when it happened, and I wanted to be there.

[pipi_k]

5. One of the big regrets of my life

I also was not there

I was two months shy of 17 at the time. I wanted to go...my mom wouldn't let me....she wouldn't let me do lots of things, but whatever...

I do, however, have the DVD that I've watched time and time again. If I close my eyes and imagine real hard, I can almost "be" there. Santana's "Soul Sacrifice".... Ten Years After doing "Going Home"...

Remembering when I grew my hair real long and wore bell bottoms and we thought we'd never get old.

It's a bittersweet trip back in time...

[wilt the stilt]

7. i was there

and let me tell you. Santana blew the house down. They followed Keef hartlay and Quill and the audience was blown away. after them followed john Sebastian and Cuntry Joe doing the fuck song

[boomerbust]

8. Alvin Lee

And Ten Years After was my favorite performance at Woodstock

[bow-tie]

4. I WAS there

I was stationed in B'More MD. A buddy and I went up there on a 3 day pass. He had a MGB. We "slept" in that car. We couldn't get out to get food until the second day and that was only bagles and soda. All the vending machines in all the gas stations were empty. I forget the name of the closest town. We almost didn't get back in after our search for food. The fence was already down when we got there. The people in the area sold sold EVERYTHING edible in their houses, for big $, $5 up for a gallon of water. I asked my buddy before we left if we should get something eat and he said we'd wait until we got there. Right!. Lines and lines of people walking in along the turnpike. It rained constantly. We had "military" haircuts so it wasn't hard to figure we were in the military. We had no trouble from anyone.

We were almost AWOL before we got back because of the traffic out.

US Army Intelligence '68-'70 E-5 ending rank.