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I was absent the day the class selected people so all the well known ones, LBJ, Castro, JFK, MLK, Malcom X... taken..

Who is a really interesting person I could do who no one would have taken? I want someone kind of like MLK or Malcom X that were really big in social movements maybe, or someone that gets me a chance to look at U.S. corruption during the time.

No boring loser people like "first women to be on President's cabinet for blah blah" or "first black man to use his high jumping and fast running skills for CIA" or any boring thing like that..

I'm sure some of you guys know some interesting subjects.. SHARE EM so I can make everyone in the class feel dumb for not getting who I get!!

Thanks... I'll check back in the morning...

EDIT: Pleast post a few different people so I have some backups..

Neil Armstrong?

Neil Armstrong?
I think he's taken..

John Kerry

Technically, he IS a major figure FROM the 60's...

Malcolm X taken?

How about JFK?

Does it have to be US? How about Dr. Christiaan Barnard.

Shirley Chisholm?

Roger Maris?

Jackie Robinson?

Douglas Englehart?

Ernesto "Che" Guevara?

Many possibilities.

John Kerry

Technically, he IS a major figure FROM the 60's...Well I posted it on ignore, but go for Timothy Leary. OR if you insist upon real weirdness look up George Lincoln Rockwell. OR if you insist upon corruption go for either Daley of Chicago or Hoover of the FBI.

Malcolm X taken?

How about JFK?
Not one who reads beyond the first coma, eh? :D

Not one who reads beyond the first coma, eh? :D

Oh hush. :p

Oh hush. :p

Jeez, way to suck.

How about Timothy Leary?

Jim Morrison? John Lennon? Jimi Hendrix?

They would be fun to do.

There are always the Soviet leaders...

Remember that guy whose article I showed you a link for? Avakian? He had a big part in the struggles around the 60's, though he ain't as well known. Even has a memoir out and stuff.

For someone slightly more well known.. how about one of the Black Panthers? Huey newton, Fred Hampton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver? How 'bout some of the guys from SDS whose names escape me at the moment.

Of course, N. Khrushchev.

Heh, if we're looking at dictators now, why not Mao?

Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Ron Kovic, Bobby Seale

Look into Bernardine Dohrn, one of the founders of the Weather Underground, a radical group that broke away from the Students for a Democratic Society. The FBI called them "the most dangerous radicals in America."

The Weathermen got their name from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues:"

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

They broke LSD advocate Timothy Leary out of prison; set off bombs at the Pentagon (in response to Nixon's increased bombing of North Vietnam), the New York State Department of Corrections (after the Attica prison riot), the home of a New York City judge who was presiding over a trial of some Black Panthers; and embraced drugs and sexual experimentation.

There is a great documentary on video about them called, coincidently, The Weather Underground.

Look into Bernardine Dohrn, one of the founders of the Weather Underground, a radical group that broke away from the Students for a Democratic Society. The FBI called them "the most dangerous radicals in America."

The Weathermen got their name from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues:"

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

They broke LSD advocate Timothy Leary out of prison; set off bombs at the Pentagon (in response to Nixon's increased bombing of North Vietnam), the New York State Department of Corrections (after the Attica prison riot), the home of a New York City judge who was presiding over a trial of some Black Panthers; and embraced drugs and sexual experimentation.

There is a great documentary on video about them called, coincidently, The Weather Underground.

there is always the ever wacky SLA and Patty Hearst

Oh yeah, and Charles Manson.

Oh yeah, and Charles Manson.
i've never been able to decide if Manson was a twisted bellweather of his times or just a sad freakshow, i lean toward the former but then i think Aileen Wornous(sp?) was an archtypal avenger and a folk hero so my opinions might be a bit bent.

i've never been able to decide if Manson was a twisted bellweather of his times or just a sad freakshow,

And that's one reason why he'd make for a good project. :D

My favorite though has to be Rockwell, when the teacher askes who you selected just say "George Lincoln Rockwell, of course. I couldn't believe he was still availible." with as straight a face as possible. Watch you teacher's reaction, it should be priceless.

you should totally do it on guy debord and the situationist international

you should totally do it on guy debord and the situationist international
i've never quite been able to get my head around situationism though it always fascinated me, any book recommendations on the subject even though i'm out of school.

OR if you insist upon real weirdness look up George Lincoln Rockwell. .
THAT is one scary man. Fascinating though. I recommend it. Also, its nice because Playboy did a really extensive interview with him that's collected in teh book "The playboy interview", which by the way, also has a million other interesting people from the sixties.

THAT is one scary man. Fascinating though. I recommend it. Also, its nice because Playboy did a really extensive interview with him that's collected in teh book "The playboy interview", which by the way, also has a million other interesting people from the sixties.

Lookee what I found!

http://www.rebrebel.com/artists/rockwellplayboyinterview.html

:)

Hey, there it is!

You should definately do him. Your's will be way more interesting and orriginal than everybody elses.

i've never quite been able to get my head around situationism though it always fascinated me, any book recommendations on the subject even though i'm out of school.

i've only actually read "the society of the spectacle". anything else i know, i read on the internet - which is probably the worst possible way to learn about things. but anyways,
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html
and
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/index.html
are pretty good.

i've only actually read "the society of the spectacle". anything else i know, i read on the internet - which is probably the worst possible way to learn about things. but anyways,
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord.html
and
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/index.html
are pretty good.

cool that first link has a whole library available online, only glanced at the second one, i'm gonna start with "tsots" since that seems like the most core text.

I was absent the day the class selected people so all the well known ones, LBJ, Castro, JFK, MLK, Malcom X... taken..

Who is a really interesting person I could do who no one would have taken? I want someone kind of like MLK or Malcom X that were really big in social movements maybe, or someone that gets me a chance to look at U.S. corruption during the time.

No boring loser people like "first women to be on President's cabinet for blah blah" or "first black man to use his high jumping and fast running skills for CIA" or any boring thing like that..

I'm sure some of you guys know some interesting subjects.. SHARE EM so I can make everyone in the class feel dumb for not getting who I get!!

Thanks... I'll check back in the morning...

EDIT: Pleast post a few different people so I have some backups..

I hate to say this, but [ cringes ] John Kerry? :eek:

How about Brezhnev? Conspired against Khrushchev and became the Party Secretary, effectively the leader of the USSR, in 1964. He stayed in charge until.. '82, wasn't it?

Harrased Wilsods.... Sorry I mean Harold Wilson.

Or Tony Benn, he cancelled the british space program.

For the US try Gen. William Westmoreland.