The America We Knew: March 1968
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- Oops! The Star Trek clip is from March of '69. (I'll try to do better!) To see the corrected video, here is the link:
• The America We Knew: M...
I have also added a short Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea clip to the new video.
PS: At the 12:30 mark you'll see a commercial with Lauren Hutton (and a brief shot of Alex Rocco) but at the end of the ad it looks like a different actress. I don't know, you tell me.
YAY! A Double Feature!
My mother was friends with Leonard Nimoy. In 1970, I got to spend a day with him. AWESOME DAY!
I remember when Johnson said he wasn't going to run again, my dad danced a jig of glee!
Many people did!
I remember no one expected it.
My dad affectionately called him " that worthless, no good, son of a bitch!" I don't think he liked him😮.
I've read before that he had hired actuaries to calculate his life expectancy and was told he would die soon after another term, which caused him to decide not to run and enjoy the remainder of his life being retired. They were pretty darn acurate since he died 2 days after another term would have ended.
That was the day after my birthday.
What a year 1968. The craziness was just getting started for me as junior in high school.
Thank you, Fred Flix. In my opinion, “Planet of the Apes” is one of the best movies of 1968.
“Planet of the Apes” was the first movie I saw with my late stepfather. At the time, he was only dating my mother. I knew from his positive reaction to this movie, that I approved of him. Rest in Peace, to my stepfather Jim ( 1938- 2017).
Yes it was but if I was to watch it today it would mostly be for Nova (Louise Harrison)....she deserves top-billing now lol
Thanks, John.
@@junkersishLinda Harrison
He sounded like a great guy. Im glad he got to be with your mother and it all worked out for the best.
that Whisk commercial! what an odd thing to remember so well.
but i do.
Remember the tag line? Wisk around the collar beats ring around the collar, every time.
Somehow, I don't think people cared about ring around the collar as much as Wisk wished they did.
Great time to be 8 years old... boy scouts, little league and being able to play outside until the street lamps came on... the best of times :)
I was 13 in March 1968. I loved Star Trek!! Great tv shows back then
Unfortunately the previewed episode was from the 68-69 season.
I'm the same age as you.
There are witches! There are!
I was four years old. It was a good time to be a kid.
Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine. When you going to let me get sober. Leave me alone, let me go home. Let me go home and start over. 🍷😵 I love that song.
A double feature, thanks Fred! Boy do I have a vivid memory of my older brother taking me to see Planet of the Apes. He was 3 years older than me and asked our mom if he could take me. She said no, I was too young so he took me anyway and that night I refused to go to bed. I was afraid of falling asleep and dreaming about those Apes! 😅❤❤❤
It's also because you monkeyed around behind your parents' backs, Doug.
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Nice one Fred!
Two videos in one day! I feel like I won the lottery Fred, and that's about as close as I'll ever come lol 😆 I was 7 and voyage to the bottom of the sea and star trek were two of my favorite shows. Thanks for the double trip down memory lane Fred! 👍👍👍👍
Sure thing, Robert. I still watch those shows to this day.
I have cousin named Valleri who wrote to the Monkey's back in 68, it was always said within our family that song was about her
I would trade being 10 years older to have been 12 in 1968. So. Much. History. Happening.
I myself turned 14, HLS. Just old enough to soak in the atmosphere and just young enough to miss the draft!
I was 13.
Me too! I still have my perforated draftcard in the original envelope. It was never used. I turned 14 in December of 1968.
Airport movie was the biggest hit of 1970 it was hugely popular.
Valleri was one of those songs the garage band in our neighborhood learned, along with (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, Wild Thing, The House of the Rising Sun, 409, Satisfaction, like you know, the easy stuff.
I forgot the other one that was a garage band favorite... G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria! That was big.
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Sounds like they were a good/fun band.
@@danielmccurdy9948 Yep, and did rehearse in a garage.
@continentalgin
I did that in a band in the 70's
@@danielmccurdy9948 Very cool
Fred, thanks for another video today, we are all so lucky. I remember the movie Planet Of The Apes very well. What a great movie with Charlton Heston and Rodney McDowell. I fell in love with the "mute" girl in the movie (forget her name). I heard she was pregnant during filming, but they did a great job hiding that. Apparently, she wasn't an actress, but was in a relationship with one of the producers who got her to act in the movie. I think I saw that movie about 5 times. The makeup artist was sensational in the movie. The ending seeing the Statue of liberty is one of the best endings in cinematic history.
Linda Harrison played Luna, the mute woman.
I'm pretty sure they called her Nova@@ernestcruz6316
@@ernestcruz6316 Thank you. She was a beauty. I think she's still attractive, too.
Yes, Stephen, and I guess I was too young and dumb to figure it out before that final scene.
My Junior High School grad present was having luch out with Mom and Dad and seeing Planet of The Apes. Valleri. 🎶🎵🎶
Thanks for dropping back a few years Mr FredFlix. Takes me from a middle school teenager back to 68, and an 8-year old, just starting out in life. The memories are a bit fuzzier, but with these videos, you help to pull them out again. Another great effort, thank you.
I was also 8 at that time
You're welcome, Dwayne.
“it’s a MADHOUSE…!” Haha. Planet of the Apes was a favorite movie of my siblings and I.
Gosh, I must have watched a lot of TV when I was 12, because I remember way more of these commercials than I should! Loved the music.
After the last one I just had to find out what happened next. Thank you so much for this quarter hour window into early 68.
Seems that people were after Mr Johnson's head...
Rightfully so, MW&M.
@@FredFlix Is he the same fella who looked pleased as punch when JFK was no longer President? I just remember seeing ta video cip.? PS in this one the counterculture seems to be going past optimistic and quickly towards smug.
@@mrwoodandmrtin Some say he had a hand in the assassination, but I won't go there.
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Dorothy Kilgallen thought so. But that was just her line.
It was a mad house all right! Thank you Fred for the special edition.
My pleasure, Tom.
“I do not run to oppose any man but to propose new policy!” How far our political agenda has changed. I was 8 years old. I remember my mother having a huge argument with my aunt about my mother taking us 3 kids to see “Planet of the Apes” my aunt claiming “it’s an abomination” One of the greatest films ever. My father, a Korean War vet, chain smoking Kent cigs glued to the TV watching the Vietnam war. The best Star Trek ever. Everything was groovy 🎉
Simon and Garfunkel felt the same way.
Thanks for another great video I absolutely love these! I purchased a new.
69 olds 442, Set up for racing right off the showroom floor. I wish I still had it...
I wish I had it at any point, a1.
Muscle cars were simply the best. Torque was unreal.
I had '68 442. After a blew 2 engines, my parents made me get rid of it. It was fun while it lasted.
@@mickieg1118 cool
Saw RFK,s speech after win in cali, boy the cia hated the Kenedys ...
Your videos are always the best!!!!😊
Glad you enjoy them, Anita.
9:27 Wow! I sure didn't expect to see THOSE in a movie trailer from 1968. 😍
A great nostalgia trip, Fred. I watched Planet of the Apes back then. I assembled a model of the Monkees car. Ah, the days when American cars actually were thought of as having quality, and no one worried about gas prices. 1968 was the first year I ever watched part of a convention. Movie Elvis was so banal. I prefer what he was prior to going into the Army. VTTBOTS had worn thin for me by then, but I loved the opening music. God, Katharine Ross was gorgeous.
Correct on all counts, Robert.
The Champion spark plug commercial the 67 Chevrolet had 9 thousand miles and l remember changing plugs quite frequently in some of the 60's Mopars l owned.
The final season of Batman
BATMAN faced his last villain on Mar. 14 w/ Minerva, played by Zsa-Zsa Gabor.
I was 4 when this came out, so this is all new to me. I was just thinking, "Wow, that must have been something to see, Mr. Kennedy coming along," and then Little Cartoon Nuclear Fallout Man made me P my pants. Love you, Fred!
Back atcha, CAM.
Fred another great video 🥰 yrs Wring around the Collar My mom used Fab my brother had a Cutlass SS Planet of Apes! Star Track , Uncola 7 up remember it so well , Tiger Beat always & you didn't say it but 16 magazinh Johnson Not Running again I watch it on TV Thank you so much music is great Botole of Wine Valerie thank you again for more greate memories Cathy
You're quite welcome, Cathy.
Your taste in music is spot on! Spooky knocked my imagination into a new direction! But the best add was that couple talking about the Uncola on that beach! And where are the gorgeous blondes today?! These posts are a treasure and a reminder of a unique time in our history!
This is a memory overload for me Fred. In March 1968 I was 2 months shy of my 11th birthday. 0:55: I remember seeing the ad in our newspaper for "Barbarella"; it looked interesting but for obvious reasons I did not go see it then (finally saw it in 1978 - meh). That ad at 1:58 is scary even today; I pray we never have a need for it. 3:58: "Planet of the Apes": the ONLY movie I ever saw where the audience was stunned into absolute silence at the end of the film.
Yet another awesome trip down the infinite corridors of time with FredFlix - great job sir!
Glad you enjoyed it, FCB.
Wow! One of your best! I could watch these all day! Thanks Fred!
Ring around the collar. LOL we used to sing it all the time at school. I at first thought it was Lauren Hutton, but then the ending it was another model. shrugs. More great stuff Fred.
Thanks, Doug.
This brought back alot of memories, Fred. I was 14, and my team played in the World Series. But not only that, all the Life magazines I've collected you put up and the music was great back then. I also saw the Planet of the Apes at the theater in my home town. Have a good day, Fred.
PS My girlfriend's name was Valerie.
"But she sure looks different than the way she looked before."
@FredFlix
Still attractive.
Just a note on the commercials. I used to smoke, and, curious about Lucky Strike, "the World War II cigarette", I had to try them, way back in the 80s. They were unfiltered, and tasted bad, which may explain why the Lucky Strike Filters never took off. I never saw filtered Luckies in all my smoking years. Wisk's ad, and much of the ad copy - "Those dirty rings! You tried soaking, scrubbing, blah blah" - was used well into the 80s. Btw, that Bic ad was pretty cute.
Fred, you're on a roll, and not a poppyseed one. Great stuff my good friend. 👍
Thanks, Gregg.
Lordy, I still have that Monkee's 45 - Valleri
So do I.
Thanks Fred 👍
Great product
Thanks, Rob.
Another video from you that put a smile on my face. Keep it up my friend!! Great work.
Summer of Love.
How ironic his son is running and they don’t want any part of him
Keep it up. That was great.
Thank you very much for the special video!
You're welcome, Jan.
A FredFlix two-fer! Thanks man!
You're welcome, Ernest.
The Star Trek preview at 7:50 in this video is for the next to the last episode of the series, All Our Yesterdays, which was first shown on NBC on March 14, 1969, and not 1968.
Good catch. Yeah, I got that one wrong. I'll put a note in the text.
I wonder how the world would have been changed if RFK had not been assassinated and went on to defeat Nixon in the election. It is safe to say RFK would have ended our involvement in the Vietnam War ASAP. There wouldn't have been the Watergate scandal and a cancer on the presidency like we had with Nixon. RFK was a man of vision and compassion. He would have made a fantastic president.
Heh heh, "Bottle Of Wine" was one of the first songs I learned when I picked up the ukulele -- it's easy!
"Get your hands off me, you damned dirty ape!" -- close enough, I reckon.
I need to go back and watch this one again.
😎Thank you!💯💥👍✌!
👍🎶📺🎞🇺🇸memories (those times)
Love "Bottle of Wine"!!
I turned 22 in 1968😊
Fred, you are truly a "Recorder of History"! Fifty plus years from now this is all that will remain of what we were "about",and what will the 2075 and 2100 version of "Fred" copy and splice ?! A sobering thought...😮
Ben, it will probably be how great America was "back then."
Thumbs UP.
I was in the 3rd grade and missed a week of school because I had the mumps. I became interested in politics in particular with RFK.
You are really, really getting good at this Fred! Perfectly mixing magazines covers of the period with cleverly selected songs, tv ads, movie trailers, and other elements that gives a perfect snapshot of the era.
That's quite compliment coming from you, Rangersly.
I kind of knew my world was going to be effed up from at least the year before, when the news began to pour in about Vietnam. And it did, too -- not because of anything that happened to me, although that sucked -- but because of all the fear of the future that I began to feel in my soul as an adolescent.
That 7-Up commercial is full of Monkee voices.
I would give at least a dollar for every weekly issue of TV Guide that I tossed in the kitchen garbage can.
I've been watching the dashcam video channels here -- they need a whole lot of that public service announcement about defensive driving.
Simonagree4070
Any antique mall would have them and they're relatively cheap.
Totally ❤❤❤❤it amazing Fred thank you so much
8:51 Madigan died only to be magically resurrected a few years later for NBC’s second Mystery Movie.
My best friend had a thing for Inger Stevens
At 1:30, I wish you were also showing the Robert Kennedy impersonations on the Ed Sullivan show, they were VERY MUCH a part of my childhood, I was at least 12 in March 1968 … 😢
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P.P.S. Give your DJ a raise.
If I had one, I would.
Done with one school another waiting after the holiday sigh, nice special.
More Great Stuff!
The downy girl and also natasha on rocky & bullwinkle and the planters peanut guy used to scare me to no end as a TYKE then!!
Wow, I remember all this. Good times but that Kennedy curse was awful.
I thought at the time that RFK would have been America's greatest president, even better than JFK, but it was not to be.
Nova 🌹❤️❤️
Johnson was so corrupt. Of course we then got Nixon.
Scarborough Fair drove me crazy they played it constantly in the radio. It’s like Larry Norman said;
“I ain’t knockin’ the hymns
Just give me a song that has a beat
I ain’t knockin’ the hymns
Just give me a song that moves my feet
I din’t like none of those funeral marches
I ain’t dead yet!”
Didn't think they still had Civil Defense during the late 60's. Crazy times, indeed. 😰
Thanks, FredFlix.
Now we uncivil defense.
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I have a civil defense booklet from 1966. It tells you how to make your own bomb shelter, what types of material to use, and how much it would cost. At least they somewhat cared about us back then.
@@danielmccurdy9948 Now they care more about hurting people's feelings, the result of a pampered entitled generation.
@FredFlix
You're a good man Fred. You're right on.
FredFlix Rox!
2:56 I doubt anyone young could afford a Toronado.
Fredflix Please The America We Knew SPECIAL October 1978
Kennedy would be considered conservative by todays measure. Thats how far left we've drifted.
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Hi Fred Flix. Good stuff of great memories you got going on your channel but there's a one problem I noticed: the Star Trek episode preview you put in was from March 1969. That episode was "All Our Yesterdays" when you should've put in "The Ultimate Computer" or a few other episodes that first premiered in March 1968. Other than that, keep up the good work of great memories for the Boomers and Gen X to fondly reminisce over.
That was a boo-boo on my part but I explained it (with a link to the corrected video) in the accompanying text.
@@FredFlix Helpful advice from a Trekkie. All those videos are great and they bring back fond memories of my childhood. And if you're working on August 1976, don't forget to show a news clipping on the death of Annisa Jones. Very nostalgic moment in that time period.
@@skeletonrebellion I already made Aug. '76 but forgot to mention her.
@@FredFlix Oh bummer! That was an important news event at the time. I remember starting the fourth-grade school year when the summer of '76 ended and a student said to a teacher, "Did you hear Buffy o.d.?" When I heard that I was surprised and thought "Buffy did drugs?" I used to watch Family Affair in syndication and saw who AJ was as she played the little girl with her sidekick toy doll Mrs. Beasley. In fact, I took a visit to her old home in Playa del Rey where her family lived and saw her name engraved on a sidewalk nearby (Anissa) that has been there since the 70s. She had easy access to the beach area where she hung out with her druggie friends that led to her tragic demise at 18 y.o. because of her father dying young, her disputes with her mother and getting teased and bullied by her peers in high school about the TV role she played. What a sad life lived for such a sweet little girl. Oh well, no one's perfect. Perhaps you can do a special video on year-by-year celebrity deaths with newspaper clippings and TV news reports. Something to consider. Anyways, keep up with the great work Fred Flix! 👏
P.S. Get a donation button, willya?
They took the button away but on the home page there's a link.
1968, try the young new Oldsmobile!!!-- youngsmobile!!!-- an aooral to the now youth generation
Anyone remember when they stopped having us get under our desks for the nuclear attack? 1960? 1961?
In California we continued to do “drop” drills well into the 1960s-not for nuclear attacks but for earthquakes!
@@smilinmoo I was in the Bay area until 1967 & we didn't have those. Though I DO remember the random earthquakes during that time
@@eringo-bragh4243 Maybe it was just the LA Unified School District. “Drop Drills” started off being the “Duck and Cover” nuclear attack drills, but they morphed into earthquake drills.
We lived in the Bay Area in the early ‘80s when our oldest son was in school. I wonder if they had the drop drills then? I’ll have to ask him. I know we parents had an earthquake preparedness committee. Every child had a ziploc package of non-perishable food and drink, just in case their parents couldn’t get to them right away and they had to remain at school.
Anyway, I’m getting off-topic because I’m rambling. 🤣
I love this channel.
@@smilinmoo I get the rambling part, I'm almost 70
FAB, with bleach, borax and brightners!!!
Honestly, if it weren't for the Vietnam policies of Kennedy's advisors, which Johnson took seriously, Johnson would have been rated as one of the greatest presidents ever, top ten. Didn't work out that way.
Too bad fjb can’t do what LBJ did in 1968!!
Man, why don't I see groovy ads for pens on YT and Fb instead of the stupid crap that passes for products these days? All hail Bic!