1970

= = 1970 TV Shows and Movies of the 1970's!
 * Drew Kaseman - Television**

Brady Bunch Sesame Street Dukes of Hazard Saturday Night Live! Happy Days M*A*S*H Bewitched All in the Family Jeffersons Love Boat Three's Company Taxi Charlie's Angles Wondar Woman
 * TV**

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The God Father The Excorsist Superstar The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Jaws King Kong Star Wars Grease The Amittyville Horror The Muppet Movie
 * MOVIES**

-In the begining of the decade there were only 59 million households with television. By the end of the decade there were more than 75 million. -There had been many plots about common economic problems such as homosexuality, race, and sex.
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Michael fuleky---political events
**6 December 1973** [|Gerald Ford], congressman from Michigan, becomes the new vice president. [] **1978** David Berkowitz, the 'Son of Sam', receives life in prison for six murders. http://www.mountaintimes.com/history/1970s/world.php3 ].
 * 4 May 1970** Four students killed when National Guardsmen opened fire during anti-war demonstrations at [|Kent State] University in Ohio.
 * 1971** [|Daniel Ellsberg] leaks the [|Pentagon Papers], massive collection of top-secret government documents, whose publication helps to discredit the Vietnam War policies of the Nixon administration.
 * 1974** Economy in worst [|recession] in 40 years.
 * 19 November 1978** American religious cult leader [|Jim Jones] and 900 People's Temple followers die in mass suicide in [|Jonestown], Guyana
 * 1978** Residents of [|Love Canal], NY, evacuated due to dangerous toxic chemicals buried in the area.
 * 5, 6 September 1972** Nineteen killed in terrorist siege at [|Munich Olympic Games]
 * 1978**Camp David peace talks bring an agreement between Israel and Egypt.



Jeffrey Kleeberger-Music The top ten songs of the 1970.

Some of the top ten songs of the 1970s are 1. Stairway to heaven by led zeppelin 2. Imagine by john lennon 3. Hotel california by 4. What's going on by marvin gaye 5. Born to run by bruce springteen 6. layla by Derek and the dominos 7. Superstition by stevie wonder 8. Bohemian rhapsody by Queen 9. Bridge over troubled water by simon and garfunkel 10. Let's stay together by al green [|**www.digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_songs70s.html**]

Here are some picture of the cd's of the 1970s. John Lennon And Led Zeppelin.

Danny Hendrick- Art or Building Structures of the 1970s >
 * Robert Smithson was one of the founders of the modern art form known as earthworks or land art. These paintings were usually made with materials such as earth, stones, or wood.  The Earthworks or Land art movement drew its inspiration from Conceptual Art, seeking to expand the concept of art, and of sculpture in particular, and to redefine attitudes both to technology and to the natural environment.
 * Graffiti became a new American art form created by Black and Latino teens. You would usually find these incredible paintings on walls of an alley.


 * The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic art is founded. This is the only school in the world designed especially for students interested in comic books.


 * The Amazing Spider Man #96 is released.


 * The houses in the 1970’s were usually ranch houses with one floor.

Nathan Gulbronson



1970 Sam Schott Political People

Sixteen-year-old Ernest Medina he lied about his age so that he could join the National Guard. He started as a radio operator but was too small to carry the 65-pound pack, so he became a cook. He attended meetings and summer programs, and marched with the color guard at the football games and in parades. Within a year of graduating from high school, he had risen to the rank of E6, one notch from the highest possible for an enlisted man. After high school graduation, Medina worked in a variety of jobs. He worked briefly in the forestry service, then as a soda jerk, then for a lumber company, then in a hardware store, then as cashier in a drugstore. In 1956, Medina followed his lifetime dream of joining the army, starting only a notch above a recruit. From basic camp he was sent to Germany, where he remained until his twenty-first birthday, by which time he had become a staff sergeant. After, meeting and falling in love with a tall, blonde German woman named Baerbel while touring Germany in a Mercedes. Medina turned down an offer to take an exam to go to Westpoint. Instead, he married Baerbel. Seven years later he went to OCS where he graduated with honors and as battalion commander of his cadet class. Medina taught at OCS for two years, and was then sent to Hawaii. In December, 1966, Medina was made commanding officer of Charlie Company. When first questioned about My Lai, Medina was in the midst of a nine-month career officers’ training course which would have enabled him to be promoted to the rank of major. He had been marked for advancement since he left Charlie Company. Although acquitted in the court-martial growing out of his role in the My Lai incident, Medina's prospective promotion in the army was derailed. Medina left the army to move to Menomee, Michigan, where he worked in a helicopter manufacturing company owned by the defense lawyer in his court-martial, F. Lee Bailey. After leaving the army, Medina acknowledged that he had known what was happening at My Lai and that he had “not been completely candid to avoid disgracing the military, the United States, his family, and himself.”
 * [[image:capt_e.JPG]]Captain Ernest L. Medina **

With the support of the United States government and through binational partnerships with foreign governments, the Fulbright Scholarship Program sponsors U.S. and foreign participants for exchanges in all areas of endeavor, including the sciences, business, academe, public service, government, and the arts and continues to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. His legislation establishing the Fulbright Program passed the Senate by unanimous consent in 1946 and drew strength from the U.S.’s national commitment to develop post war leadership and engage constructively with the community of nations. The first participants in the Fulbright Program went overseas in 1948, funded by war reparations and foreign loan repayments to the United States. This program has had extraordinary impact around the world. There have been more than 250,000 Fulbright students, scholars and teachers; many of them have made significant contributions within their countries, including the U.S., as well as to the overall goal of advancing mutual understanding. J. William Fulbright was born on April 9, 1905 in Sumner, Missouri. He was educated at the University of Arkansas where he was awarded the B.A. degree in Political Science in 1925. He then attended Oxford University where he received an M.A. degree and was transformed by his international experience. When Fulbright returned to the United States, he studied law at George Washington University in Washington, DC. During the 1930's, he served in the Justice Department and was an instructor at the George Washington University Law School. In 1936, he returned to Arkansas where he was a lecturer in law and, from 1939 to 1941, president of the University of Arkansas, at the time the youngest university president in the country. He ran for political office in 1942 and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives; he entered Congress in January 1943 and was appointed to the Foreign Affairs Committee. In September of that year, the House adopted the Fulbright Resolution supporting an international peace-keeping mechanism encouraging United States participation in what became the United Nations, and this brought national attention to Congressman Fulbright. In November 1944, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and served there from 1945 through 1974, becoming one of the most influential and best-known members of the Senate. In 1949, Senator Fulbright became a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1959–1974 he served as chairman of the committee. His Senate career was marked by notable instances of principled dissent. In 1954, he was the only Senator to vote against an appropriation for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which was chaired by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; and, in 1961, he lodged serious objections to President Kennedy in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion. But Senator Fulbright also worked to build national consensus. For instance, he supported creating a national center for the arts, and his initial legislation led to the founding of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He was particularly in the spotlight as a powerful voice in the turbulent Vietnam War era, when he chaired the Senate hearings on United States policy and the conduct of the war. In 1963 Walter Lippman wrote of Fulbright: "The role he plays in Washington is an indispensable role. There is no one else who is so powerful and also so wise, and if there were any question of removing him from public life, it would be a national calamity." After serving five consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate, Senator Fulbright was defeated in Arkansas’ 1974 Democratic primary. He then served as counsel to the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson and remained active in support of the Fulbright Program. He received numerous awards from governments, universities, and educational organizations around the world for his efforts on behalf of education and international understanding. In 1993 he was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton.
 * Senator J. William Fulbright **

The first of the four children of Prince Norodom Suramarit and Princess Monivong Kossamak, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was born in the Cambodian capital of [|Phnom Penh] on Oct. 31, 1922. The colonial French encouraged Sihanouk's selection as king in 1941 because they feared the outspokenly nationalist heir apparent of the line of King Norodom's half brother. Sihanouk, who already enjoyed a reputation as a playboy, was picked because the French perceived him as [|pliable]. Sihanouk was raised in a quite modest environment by his musically talented parents, in whose footsteps he partly followed as an accomplished saxophonist. Educated in French at an ordinary day school in Phnom Penh, Sihanouk was subsequently sent to a secondary school in Saigon in Vietnam, which, like Cambodia, was then part of [|French Indochina]. He did not complete his secondary schooling, however - let alone continue on to a university - because of his recall to Phnom Penh in 1941, at the age of 18, to be enthroned as king. Sihanouk's coronation took place 10 months after the fall of France, whose Indochinese empire fell under the practical direction of the expanding Japanese - who controlled neighboring Vietnam and Laos. During the first years of his reign as king, Sihanouk was a prisoner in his own palace. Although he subsequently proclaimed Cambodian independence from France in March 1945, encouraged by the retreating Japanese, he came fairly quickly to terms with the returning French after the war. He also opposed demands by the national legislatures elected in 1947 and 1951 for a redeclaration of independence from France. Somewhat surprisingly, in light of his dissolutionof a legislature that demanded immediate independence, Sihanouk proceeded to France to advance this very demand. Rebuffed by the French, he went into exile in Thailand in 1953, successfully embarrassing France into [|acquiescence] to his country's independence. This independence was in effect completed in 1954 with the Geneva Agreements, which terminated the 8-year Franco-Indochinese War. This war was fought largely in adjacent Vietnam, but there were a few Vietnamese Communist partisans in Cambodia and a handful of Cambodian sympathizers. Sihanouk held up final approval of the Geneva Agreements until his demand for the complete withdrawal of the Vietnamese Communists from his country was met. Sihanouk accepted American military and economic assistance after the end of the First Vietnamese War (1945-1954) and even initially sought to join the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO). He terminated United States aid in 1963, however - and broke off diplomatic relations in 1965 (resumed in 1969) - because of the [|spillover] into Cambodia of American war activity in adjacent South Vietnam and American diplomatic support of (and military aid to) another neighbor and historical [|foe], Thailand. Although he was still king when independence came, Sihanouk stepped down as monarch in 1955 in order to play a more active day-to-day role in Cambodian politics. He was succeeded on the throne by his father. The mercurial Sihanouk served a half dozen times as premier in the years 1955-1960, frequently resigning from the post for one reason or another, and became "chief of state" in 1960 - shortly after the death of his father, the king. Although Cambodia continued to call itself a monarchy and was led by a former king - Sihanouk - it was the only monarchy in the world without a ruling sovereign. Sihanouk formed the Popular Socialist Community party after his [|abdication] as a means of preserving his political preeminence. This party won all the seats in the National Assembly vote of 1955 and subsequent elections throughout the 1960s, making Cambodia a one-party state in terms of representation in its government, and Sihanouk the political, if not reigning, king. The outbreak of North Vietnamese-encouraged Communist rebellion on Cambodian soil in 1967, however, indicated that there was at least this kind of opposition to Sihanouk's continued control of Cambodian political life.
 * Prince Norodom Sihanouk **

Reconciliation was the first goal set by President Richard M. Nixon. The Nation was painfully divided, with turbulence in the cities and war overseas. During his Presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation. His election in 1968 had climaxed a career unusual on two counts: his early success and his comeback after being defeated for President in 1960 and for Governor of California in 1962. Born in California in 1913, Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law. In 1940, he married Patricia Ryan; they had two daughters, Patricia (Tricia) and Julie. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. On leaving the service, he was elected to Congress from his California district. In 1950, he won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing. Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria. In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record. Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate" scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign. The break-in was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation. As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President. Faced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." In his last years, Nixon gained praise as an elder statesman. By the time of his death on April 22, 1994, he had written numerous books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy.
 * President Richard M. Nixon **


 * William Rogers **

Will Rogers was first an Indian, a cowboy then a national figure. He now is a legend. Born in 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what later would become Oologah, Oklahoma, Will Rogers was taught by a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch. As he grew older, Will Rogers' roping skills developed so special that he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three lassos at once: One rope caught the running horse's neck, the other would hoop around the rider and the third swooped up under the horse to loop all four legs. Will Rogers' unsurpassed lariat feats were recorded in the classic movie, "The Ropin' Fool." His hard-earned skills won him jobs trick roping in Wild West shows and on the vaudeville stages where, soon, he started telling small jokes. Quickly, his wise cracks and folksy observations became more prized by audiences than his expert roping. He became recognized as being a very informed and smart philosopher--telling the truth in very simple words so that everyone could understand. After the 10th grade, Will Rogers dropped out of school to become a cowboy in a cattle drive. He always regretted that he didn't finish school, but he made sure that he never stopped learning--reading, thinking and talking to smart people. His hard work paid off. Will Rogers was the star of Broadway and 71 movies of the 1920s and 1930s; a popular broadcaster; besides writing more than 4,000 syndicated newspaper columns and befriending Presidents, Senators and Kings. During his lifetime, he traveled around the globe three times-- meeting people, covering wars, talking about peace and learning everything possible. He wrote six books. In fact he published more than two million words. He was the first big time radio commentator, was a guest at the White House and his opinions were sought by the leaders of the world. Inside himself, Will Rogers remained a simple Oklahoma cowboy. "I never met a man I didn't like," was his credo of genuine love and respect for humanity and all people everywhere. He gave his own money to disaster victims and raised thousands for the Red Cross and Salvation Army. At home, either on his ranch in Oklahoma or California, he always enjoyed riding horseback, roping steers or playing polo. He would scratch his head, grin and quip that he figured there was something wrong with anybody that didn't like a horse. He always thought of himself as first a caring member of the human race, American, then a Cherokee Indian; a faithful husband and a father. Even though he was the top-paid star in Hollywood, he was a family man. Will Rogers was very close to his wife, Betty, and their four children. There were eight children born to Will Rogers' parents, but only four reached adulthood on the rugged frontier of 19th Century Indian Territory. While a fast horse thrilled Will Rogers, he also loved flying. It was on a flight to Alaska in 1935 with a daring one-eyed Oklahoma pilot named Wiley Post that their plane crashed and both men lost their lives.