The Woodstock Music Festival began on Aug. 15, 1969, and remains a symbol of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.Woodstock was a three-day music festival attended by mainly young people living ...
In the summer of 1969 cameras captured a series of concerts in Harlem featuring artists who would go on to become musical legends, like Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and Gladys Knight. But for decades no ...
August 18, 1969 saw the last day of a festival that brought hundreds of thousands together into a community of counterculture music. In New York City, Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and ...
On a Sunday in July 1969, a San Diego police officer officer stopped a car carrying several young Black men near Mountain View park. Shots were fired. An hours-long battle between police and ...
In 1969, a wall of water flowed out of Wheatland Irrigation District’s Reservoir No. 1, devastating ranches and farmland for miles. Some thought the ...
This article first appeared in Stars and Stripes’ Europe edition Jan. 21, 1969. It is republished unedited in its original form. NUERNBERG, Germany — Despite bad weather, Reforger I’s debut in ...