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🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | This battle line's being wrong and nobody's right if everybody's wrong. |
0:20.0 | Young people speaking their minds are getting so much resistance from behind. |
0:29.0 | What was going down in 1966 when this song by Buffalo Springfield hit the charts was a United States deep into war in Vietnam. |
0:44.0 | Stephen Stills wrote the song to protest curfew laws on the Sunset Strip in California. |
0:49.0 | But the song took on greater meaning against the backdrop of the war and a huge toll it was taking on young people. |
0:56.0 | The Vietcong attacked us before dawn. They used a strategy they have used before at the Metropolitan Hotel three months ago. |
1:03.0 | I think everyone realizes that inflation is a problem and I think everyone would like to cooperate with the president in trying to do what we can to stay. |
1:11.0 | They say it's their despair which has caused them to pitch their tents here across the street from the White House. |
1:17.0 | It's 2 o'clock in the morning at the government radio station in Saigon. The lines are drawn. |
1:22.0 | The police have decided to break the student demonstration reports. |
1:26.0 | The town of Vin Linh just inside the quarter of North Vietnam was struck today by US and South Vietnamese planes. |
1:33.0 | All this was not lost on two teenagers in Des Moines, Iowa. |
1:37.0 | 15-year-old John Tinker and his 13-year-old sister Mary Beth Tinker felt inspired to express their opposition to the Vietnam War. |
1:45.0 | They and other students planned to protest by wearing black armbands at school. |
1:50.0 | School officials responded quickly banning the armbands from campus. |
1:55.0 | And when the Tinker's and other students defied the ban by showing up with the armbands, the school suspended them. |
2:01.0 | The Tinker's took their fight for freedom of speech to the US Supreme Court and they won. |
2:07.0 | The justices clarified the lines of free speech, student speech, and school authority. |
2:13.0 | 52 years later in 2017. |
2:28.0 | All right, Donald John, Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully exit Korea. |
2:34.0 | Successfully testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the US. |
2:39.0 | In a matter of seconds, a country music festival turned tragic, a storm of gunfire raining down upon an innocent crowd. |
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