![]() ![]() “If you didn’t experience it back then,” a Nixon aide named Stephen Bull says, “you have no idea how close we were, as a country, to a revolution. As the supreme court attacks womens rights, Nell McShane Wulfharts story of a workplace revolution at 30,000ft is timely. This, after all, was a period when demonstrations grew so enormous that the Nixon administration took to surrounding the White House with a defensive ring of parked buses. That legacy, Clara Bingham argues in her excellent oral history of the tumultuous events of 19, “Witness to the Revolution,” has overwhelmed the memory of how near the country came to something like open revolt. What they triggered instead was a revolution in American culture, from the embrace of long hair, rock music and drug use to all the “-isms” that sprang from the wreckage of the antiwar movement, especially feminism, anti-militarism and environmentalism. The millions of young people who joined anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in the late 1960s took to the streets in hope of igniting a kind of revolution in America, and in retrospect it’s clear they succeeded, though it wasn’t at all the revolution they expected. ![]() Photo: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Crowds and vehicles at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. ![]()
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