RobKirkpatrick.com » New York Times http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:01:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 STUCK IN THE ‘60S? http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2010/05/stuck-in-the-60s/ http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2010/05/stuck-in-the-60s/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 14:58:24 +0000 Rob http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/?p=1561
  • FIRST INTERRACIAL GRIDIRON GAME PLAYED IN SOUTH 40 YEARS AGO Here’s a link to an article from Sunday’s New York...
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/us/politics/26bai.html?hp

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    ]]>     http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2010/05/stuck-in-the-60s/feed/ 0     FIRST INTERRACIAL GRIDIRON GAME PLAYED IN SOUTH 40 YEARS AGO http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/10/first-interracial-gridiron-game-played-in-south-40-years-ago/ http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/10/first-interracial-gridiron-game-played-in-south-40-years-ago/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:01:19 +0000 Rob http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/?p=1325
  • 40 YEARS AGO: FRED HAMPTON, MARK CLARK KILLED IN POLICE RAID OF PANTHER HQ Forty years ago today, Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and...
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    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     Here’s a link to an article from Sunday’s New York Times on the first interracial college football game played in the South – between Florida A&M, a black college, and the predominantly white University of Tampa, in 1969:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/us/26florida.html?em

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    ]]>     http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/10/first-interracial-gridiron-game-played-in-south-40-years-ago/feed/ 0     LUNAR LINKS! MAN LANDS ON THE MOON **40 YEARS AGO TODAY** http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/07/man-lands-on-the-moon-40-years-ago-today/ http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/07/man-lands-on-the-moon-40-years-ago-today/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:18:18 +0000 Rob http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/?p=810
  • BUT WHAT IS ART, ANYWAY? Here’s something new about 1969…turns out the first piece of...
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  • FIRST INTERRACIAL GRIDIRON GAME PLAYED IN SOUTH 40 YEARS AGO Here’s a link to an article from Sunday’s New York...
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     That giant leap made by NASA and the brave astronauts of Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins – happened 40 years ago today.

    Here’s a link to a priceless mission transcript on the Kennedy Space Center site: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-11/apollo-11.html 

    Here’s a special New York Times feature on “Readers’ Moon Memories”: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/15/science/space/20090715moon-readers_index.html

    And below are a couple of cover stories on the moon landing, one real, one fake.  One could argue the fake one more accurately depicts the dizzying achievement of Apollo 11.

    And, of course, the moon landing is placed within the context of the times in my book 1969: The Year Everything Changed, now available at a Barnes and Noble near you…

    - Rob

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    ]]>     http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/07/man-lands-on-the-moon-40-years-ago-today/feed/ 0     STONEWALL RIOTS, 40 YEARS AGO http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/06/stonewall-riots-40-years-ago/ http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/2009/06/stonewall-riots-40-years-ago/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:46:46 +0000 Rob http://www.robkirkpatrick.com/blog/?p=726
  • AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON POST (…with apologies to Public Enemy.) I intended this to be...
    • Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>     In a year of riots and protests – including the Harvard Student Strike, People’s Park, the War Moratorium, the Days of Rage, and the occupation of Alcatraz – perhaps the most pivotal in terms of lasting influence were the Stonewall Riots, which occurred 40 years ago this weekend in Greenwich Village. The uprising of patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street, against a police raid inspired local residents, gay and straight, to join in. Forty years later, it stands as one of the most important rallying moments in the history of the gay and lesbian rights movement in America.

    Read this recent New York Times story on Stonewall here: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/police-records-document-the-stonewall-uprising/?hp

    …and, of course, you can read more about the Stonewall Riots in 1969: The Year Everything Changed, available now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, or directly from the publisher.  Visit my book page for links to purchase.

    Ps. I also discuss Stonewall, as well as other colorful incidents from the year, in the upcoming History Channel program Sex in ‘69: The Sexual Revolution in America. Air date coming soon!

    - Rob

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