KALEIDOSCOPE (History) reel-to-reel series

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Reel	Programs	Pages	Titles
R-1268	14	2	We'll go to Hell & Back Again for ULYSES S. GRANT · 1934 - JOHN DILLENGER · SAGA OF SANTA FE · GET AWAY FROM THOSE SWINGING DOORS · TO AMERICA VIA HELL · LOUD ENOUGH FOR DANCING · THE AMERICAN INDIAN · A TRIBUTE TO BAD SONGS · 1958: Dien ousted in Vietnam; Astronaut Gordon Cooper into space; MacMillan resigns & Lord Home heads Britain; Profumo/Christine Keeler affair in Britain; NAACP worker Medgar Evers killed; Martin Luther King: "No man is free if he fears death."; Nuclear sub 'Thresher' lost; Yugoslavia earthquake; Hurricanes & Tidal waves; Jackie Kennedy miscarries; Pres. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Nov. 22nd; Jack Ruby kills Navy Oswald on TV; LBJ sworn-in; Kennedy's funeral. · 1964: "THE YEAR OF TRANSITION" Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) 'War against Poverty'; Civil rights bill; Martin Luther King; Demonstrations; XXX; Three civil rights workers killed; Pope Paul VI visits the Holy Land; Panama riots and breaks relationships with U.S.; Brazil revolt; Argentina & Bolivia revolts; Chinese visit Egypt; China explodes A-bomb; Saigon · Cyprus & Congo fighting; Goldwater VS LBJ election; Johnson's 'Great Society'; Landslide vote for Johnson; Britain elects Harold Wilson; The Beatles; Close-up pictures of the moon; Johnson's beagles dogs ears incident; U.S. wins 36 gold medals in Tokyo Olympics. · 1965: U.S. advisors in Vietnam; The war escalates; Beatniks; Draft card burners; Johnson's speech; The great power blackout (9 months later- a baby boom); Rhodesia declares independence; Pakistan & India war over Kashmir; Ping-pong cats; THE WATTS RIOTS covering 7 square miles; Martin L. King's 4-day · Selma to Montgomery · Alabama march; Negro voting law; Albert Switzer & Clara Bow die. · 1966: The Vietnam war; Kee's gov't.; Draft card burners; Medicare begins- LBJ gives 1st card to Truman; Indonesia riots against Sukarno; China tests nuclear device; India chooses Indira Ghandi; Movie ratings begin; Gemini space dockings; Lucy Johnson marries; Tezan university sharpshooter kills 14; Wales landslide kills 84 schoolchildren; Sniper gets James Merideth on civil rights march; Martin L. King finishes his march; National Guard called out in Chicago against marchers; Looting & firebombing in Atlanta & St. Louis; Calif. elects Ronald Reagan; Romney and Rockefeller both re-elected gov.; Batman & Robin begin TV series; LBJ tours & anti-war. · 1967: "THE SIX-DAY WAR" The Arab's lose the 'Six day War' with Israel; Christian Bernard's first heart transplant; Kosygin/Johnson meeting; Greece King Constantine deposed; Cyprus tensions; Thurston Marshall becomes first Negro Supreme Court judge; Twiggy's fashions; Hippies: "Make love · not war"; Three U.S. astronauts killed in fire on launching pad; Russian cosmonaut killed in space; Stalin's daughter defects to West; China detonates an H-bomb; China's red guards riot against British consule; Montreal · Canada's Centennial with Expo 67 World's Fair; Cha. DeGaulle speech in Canada; British pound devalued; Johnson's surtax; Labor problems; Civil rights arson · violence & riots in Newark & Detroit cause LBJ to call out the National Guard; Over 500 plane loses in Vietnam; Martin Luther King says: "Stop the War"; Deaths include: Conrad Adenauer · Cardinal Spellman · Nelson Eddie & Carl Sandberg. · 1968: The Year of ABERRATIONS - The Presidential primaries starring: George 'I was brainwashed' Romney · Richard M. Nixon · Eugene McCarthy · Robert Kennedy · Ronald Reagan for the Republicans; Pres. Johnson: "I shall not seek and will not accept the nomination" so Democrats choose Hubert H. Humphrey; George Wallace starts a 3rd Party; Martin Luther King's 'Mountain Top' speech in which he premonitions his own death; Martin Luther King killed April 4th - James Earl Ray arrested; Washington D.C. riot despite Robt. Kennedy's appeal; Resurrection City and march in Washington; Robert Kennedy assassinated in L.A. on TV by Sirhan Sirhan; Vietnam Jan. 31st 'Tet Offensive'; Russians send troops & tanks into Czechoslovakia; U.S.