Flashback to 1965 - A Timeline of Life in America

[@jukebox4two]

Thanks!

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

A special year for me since it was the year my family immigrated to the States. I started kindergarten that September, becoming the first in my family to be fully educated in the US. What a special time and what a wonderful country. I was always envious of my classmates and friends who were born here and couldn't wait until I was old enough to become a citizen. Still here almost 60 years later and wouldn't have it any other way. God Bless the USA!

[@MelywoodMedia]

You were educated when America was her best.

[@tolfan4438]

What a wonderful story that's how immigration should be

[@carolclmcm1214]

Congratulations fellow American. You are a reason that America works well. Bless you.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

@@carolclmcm1214 Thank you for the kind words and sentiments.

[@opera93]

Thanks… interestingly IN 1965, I Graduated from High School(*WOLF LAKE, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA) , & heading to PURDUE U/ ARMY ROTC, & later to PHARMACY School…….& life was complicated, in some ways, etc……

[@sherricoffman]

Thank You So Much ❤🎉

[@pamelamays4186]

A Charlie Brown Christmas has the best musical score in animation. Judy Garland and The Supremes on the same bill? Awesome!

[@carolclmcm1214]

A Charlie Brown Christmas. Music that EVERYONE recognizes and loves. Happy, happy days.

[@dkwoodsy2082]

Agreed- Vince Guaraldi did most all of the music for Peanuts. A brilliant piano player and jazz musician and composer. Pretty much anyone can hear a sampling of his music and immediately think- Charlie Brown and Peanuts.

[@lewiscarey6984]

"SUPREMES: Late Mary Wilson mentions this particular time, when Flo, Diana, and herself met Miss Garland, and mentioned the fact that she was in decline health wise.. "That's when we KNEW, we were The SUPREMES," 💅💅💅💅

[@SuperQueenBee45]

Here’s to 1965 my birth year!🎉🍸☮️❤️

[@NorbertoFontanez]

Yeah !!!🥂... I'm generation X myself... 1965🤙😎🥃🥃🥃

[@robertfreestone414]

24th for me.

[@robertfreestone414]

Sorry. January 24th.

[@paulakpacente]

1965 was a very good year. I was 13 years old and remember it well...

[@MilitaryVideoWorks3742]

Another great video. Was 14 years old in 1965, some great memories here!

[@vanessamartinez211]

Duane I was 17 years old getting ready to graduate High School. Afterwards I went into Army served 40 years in service. Time does fly by quickly.

[@NorbertoFontanez]

I was born in this year BUT I don't remember it.

[@Cryo837]

I was a 12 year old 6th grader who took for granted all the great music that came out in 1965. I was also a huge space fan. My pee chee was covered with my sketches of UFOs and rockets. It was a great time to be a kid. And of course I was oblivious to the bigger world around me. It was like living in a perfect little bubble....even though storm clouds were on the horizon.

[@robertkusek4407]

I was 12 also, remember my Dad telling me to save all the silver coins I could because they stopped making them IN 1964

[@libertyann439]

Pee-Chees! Wow! I remember those. Doodling was the only way to survive some of boring classes.

[@cudaus1]

I was 16 in 1965. It was a great year for me.

[@gregoryryan3088]

Hey plz tell me more about 65

[@jons.6216]

Didn't know that history of TGI Fridays!

[@optimisticfuture6808]

Yep, my mom, recently divorced would go there every weekend. I was born in 65 and she was a great mom!

[@elwin38]

And on August 6, 1965, the Beatles Help! album was released, 8/13 in America. The movie premiered in the UK on July 29 and in America Aug. 11, 1965!

[@Kevin-yh9yt]

Thats a huge omission!

[@elwin38]

@@Kevin-yh9yt Absolutely! Also no mention of Rubber Soul coming out in DEC '65.

[@vickiladu6755]

Loved it and just 11 years old!

[@haroldvoss5886]

Finally, the year I was born, the best YEAR ever

[@lohphat]

We're lucky. Especially when you're born in the summer. That makes the date math easy to track your school years. You enter kindergarten in a 'x0 year (1970) assuming you start at age 5, then 1st grade in 'x1 (1971) all the way up to graduation year starting in 1982 (12th year).

[@haroldvoss5886]

@@jamesalford877 Ya see, now we gotta arm wrastle :-P

[@lohphat]

@@haroldvoss5886 GET A ROOM! ;-)

[@haroldvoss5886]

@@lohphat See, now we gotta arm wrassle ..

[@iswc27]

I was also born that year. We are among the firstborn of Generation X!

[@RichardinNC1]

I was 5 in 65. Loved the Monkees, still have their albums my sister bought. Nice mix of events and firsts. I remember a ride in a New Plymouth Barracuda, which competed with the Mustang. It ignited my passion for cars.

[@noble604]

I remember The Monkees had a sitcom (“Hey Hey! We’re The Monkees”...) and they were also on The Brady Bunch and Marcia met Davy Jones and he came to their house. “Girl. Look what you’ve done to me. .......... Me ....and my whole world.”)

[@rogerlee3941]

Yeah, the Barracuda beat the Mustang to the market by about 2 weeks and was a great car (I remember because I was 16 that year). I have a restored 65 Plymouth Belvedere II with the factory 383/4-speed. That was a great year for the automotive industry!

[@jamesslick4790]

@@rogerlee3941 And despite the Mustang's instant hit status, The Barracuda was the better car. The Mustang was based on the Falcon, A good expansible economy platform. The Barracuda was based on the Valiant. Ford and Chrysler had different goals in mind for their new 1960 "compacts". Ford's Falcon was to be inexpensive as possible and perhaps even be a family's second car. Ford never thought of performance for the Falcon until the "hotter" Monza versions of the Chevrolet Corvair became a surprise success. The Valiant OTOH, was designed as a smaller yes, but still "real" car. (to be taken seriously as one's primary, not "just" a secondary car.) Right "out of the box" Plymouth had a vastly better handling suspension and more refined "innards" overall to work with for the Barracuda. It was a great platform for "heating" up to a "Muscle" car that could not only move like hell in straight line, but actually take corners! It took too long for the Barracuda to be appreciated, But now they are getting that AND big bucks! And I say all this as a GM guy!

[@SevenHunnid]

My parents hate me because i smoke weed in my KZbin videos as my job but they’ll understand when i buy them a house💧

[@jamesslick4790]

@@SevenHunnid Well, That's a bummer. Lemme know what that has to do with the Monkees, The Mustang, The Barracuda or just 1965 generally. That MIGHT be interesting......Or not..

[@oldschool8983]

Also on November 1965, "Days of Our Lives" premiered its first episode on NBC.

[@darrenkrivit6854]

The year of my birth👶thanks for the trip in the time machine, been looking forward to this one✌️

[@miriambarnett2782]

I turned 13 that year. Great year for music. I had two sisters and in August (22) my twin brothers were born. My dad (who was a twin) was overjoyed!

[@blessedhighlyfavored701]

I just love these videos, brings back alot of forgotten memories.

[@malcolmmarshall5946]

I'm 62 and still love watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

[@azmike1]

So sad. So moving. The history of my childhood makes me very melancholy. In 1969, I saw Led Zeppelin at the Los Angeles Forum for 4.00 per ticket. Black Sabbath and a 20-year-old Ozzy Osborne opened the show.

[@anotherplanet5828]

Lucky!

[@searcymasonry]

the average concert ticket now is about 90 bucks and you have to have an iphone with a ' social credit ' QR code to gain admittance .

[@joelfrombethlehem]

I do remember my parents turning on the television for the Charlie Brown Christmas.

[@dkwoodsy2082]

Oh man! My sister and I never missed it! Better have homework and baths done cause you only got 1 chance a year to see it! There were no DVRs or VCRs. Same with all the holiday shows- Rudolph, SC is Comin to Town, etc…. Now you can find that stuff all over any time. Kinda takes away from the eagerness and how special it was…. See those shows and go to bed, seeing the Christmas lights hanging on the house thru my window. Till my parents turned them off about 11.

[@xaenon]

A Charlie Brown Christmas was the very first program I ever saw in color. My dad had splurged on a brand new RCA color set during the holiday season in 1967, to replace the dying old Zenith B&W set we had. I vividly remember two big burly men lumping that heavy thing up the steps of our apartment and setting it up in our living room. A few minutes after it was switched on, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired.

[@destineydevereux7355]

I graduated in 65 and also was in the Palm Sunday tornado!🌪️💋

[@dkwoodsy2082]

2 yrs before I was born. I love these videos! Keep em coming!

[@MelywoodMedia]

I grew up in Kokomo Indiana and you used the photo from our double twister. I was very young but that photograph on the front page of our newspaper terrified me for years to come. I still have that newspaper. That picture was taken in Russiaville, IN just south of Kokomo.

[@edthesun]

You forgot to mention the great blackout of Nov 9, 1965. It started about 5:30 PM and covered the entire East Coast up to Canada. It lasted until the next morning.

[@Poloco65]

2 days before I was born!!

[@charleshunziker7416]

I remember I was 10 years old and lived in Connecticut

[@samanthab1923]

That right! And 9 months later a bunch of black out babies were born.

[@onefatstratcat]

I was 5 years old... it was a great time to be a 5 year old

[@gregggoss2210]

Yes it was. I have watched Charlie Brown Christmas almost every year since then. It still brings a tear to my eyes when Linus recites the Bible verse.

[@NorbertoFontanez]

I'm surprised That atheist broad Madeline 🤔what's her face? Didn't sue the network for that !!! Shame the fate that wench met. PRAISE GOD!!!

[@howyoudurrinhunneh]

Love this channel so much

[@popcultureaddict733]

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" was somewhat controversial before it's debut. Why? 1. The network didn't like the Jazz score, and preferred a more pop-oriented one. 2. CBS thought it was too "reverent", and would have preferred a more secular tone. 3. The cast consisted primarily of non-actors, with the exception of Linus (who quoted scripture). It should be noted that 1964's hit special "Rudolph" (also on CBS at the time) met all of those requirements and that the Peanuts comic strip was was celebrated for it's irreverence. CBS worried that the special would bomb in the ratings, but Schultz had his way, since he had artistic control over the project. When it was aired, everyone held their breath. They needn't have worried, as it was obviously a smash hit.

[@bobtaylor170]

Yes, it's hilarious that the execs couldn't see why there needed to be the scene in which Linus reads the Bible excerpt.

[@dkwoodsy2082]

@@bobtaylor170 Zactly!! Uh… it’s “Christ”mas… Ya know.. “The reason for the Season?…” That was some of the first “politically correct” stuff that’s now become so prevalent.

[@gordon3186]

*The 'War on Christmas' started with the Puritans who forbade Christmas celebrations, recognizing its roots in pagan festivals like Yule and Saturnalia.*

[@dkwoodsy2082]

@@gordon3186 Point taken but what does that have to do with innocent memories of childhood? I am not trying to start an argument, I just don’t understand the relevance to the video that merely portrays the memories of a young guy back then- and judging from the comments, apparently sparked memories for many people.

[@gordon3186]

@@dkwoodsy2082 ---- *You introduced the topic of "political correctness" and its prevalence, not me. Since the conversation about a "video that merely portrays the memories of a young guy back then" seemed to be taking on a "War on Christmas" bent, I just thought a little context was in order.*

[@doloreshuntoon7698]

On Monday, June the twenty-eighth, 1965, ABC-TV premiered the weekday musical show which was entitled "Where the Action Is!". It was hosted by Steve Alaimo, along with Linda Scott, Paul Revere & His Raiders, and Jimmy Hibbard & the Action Kids.

[@vickiladu6755]

Yes, I watched that faithfully as I was 11 and loved the music of the time and dancing!

[@pernelldh]

Also in 1965, Green Acres starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor premiered on CBS.

[@heatherallingham7120]

Oh to go back in time to see Judy Garland AND The Supremes in the same concert!!!

[@RaeAnne232]

Such great memories brought back by your videos!

[@wespeacock793]

Birth year nostalgia, cool!

[@NipkowDisk]

Thank you for posting this. I was in kindergarten in 1965...

[@beentherebefore050]

Good times, I was 13 and we'd lived through the Kennedy years and tears; Mother absolutely thrilled to use those dough-boy biscuits, which relieved her of making time consuming homemade ones for a large family; thanks for the memories

[@searcymasonry]

" time consuming " ? making great biscuits takes about 10 minutes . canned biscuits might have made sense when they were 29 cents a tube , but theyre over a buck now and fucking hideous in texture and flavor .

[@searcymasonry]

@@beentherebefore050 i bought some canned biscuits recently that are so horrid it drove me to look into making good scratch one . the scratch ones are delightful and i'll be tossing the last canned ones in the woodstove . hug my nuts bonnie and i'll give you some of them with my apple jam to spread on them . i have sausage gravy premade too . fuckin homemade beer to wash it down with .

[@1985OldSkool]

U.S./Canadian Major Professional Sports League Champions during 1965 MLB - Los Angeles Dodgers (3rd World Series title in L.A., 4th overall) NBA - Boston Celtics (7th consecutive title, 8th overall) NFL - Green Bay Packers (3rd title under Vince Lombardi, 9th overall)/ AFL - Buffalo Bills (second consecutive title)/ CFL - Hamilton Tiger-Cats (4th Grey Cup) NHL - Montreal Canadiens (13th Stanley Cup)

[@loveandfaith6517]

Thank you! Much information and appreciated!

[@davidsquires154]

In the year 1965, I was only 8 years old and in the 3rd grade.

[@joanne26]

Hello from England I was born August 1965. At 7.25 into this video, near the very end it shows the Houston Astrodome. This place was chosen by Colonel Parker to be the first venue for ELVIS to perform outside Las Vegas. 3rd March 1974. Elvis set a one day attendance records with his 2 shows.

[@garyjenkins2500]

65 was a struggle for me. Brother was sent to Nam and my mom left me to the mercies of a abusive step dad! Very rough start to a young man

[@markfrench8892]

Funny how history repeats itself in our current time.

[@srats56]

his-story is NOT our story

[@cattailer1077]

Been watching A Charlie Brown Christmas Special all these years later (but whose counting!😉)!🎄☃️

[@martinpennock9430]

I was 10 and we lived in Gretna, just across the river from NOLA. It was my parent's first house. I remember Betsy, and how we were without power and water for maybe 2 weeks. It was pretty scary at that age, but when in was all over I was ready to go play outside. Of course, I wasn't allowed. Thanks again for all you do! Great video and many memories. 🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍

[@spiritualservicesgodbless7641]

Thank you for the video

[@kurtkauffman4326]

On 11/8 of that year,Days of our Lives debuts.

[@GuyPipili]

Tom and Jerry cartoon debut the day before my terrible two! 😉😄

[@Lenioogami]

Lost in space debuted in 1965

[@janetr5929]

I was 5. Charley Brown Christmas was a big event in our home

[@stevedeleon8775]

I was 6 years old in 1965..I was in first grade at Liberty Elementary School..Tucson, Arizona..I rode a Western Auto Sting Ray Bike to school..👍

[@bearforce187]

My birth year, a great year. :)

[@James-rb8tu]

Winston Churchill died that year

[@tonyedward6909]

The founder of TGIF used to go into that Irish bar every day after work , he noticed business was bad, being an advertising man he suggested to the grouchy old owner/bartender to add some prop decorations to the walls, peanut shells on floor, the bar owner said " You got such great ideas why don't you buy the bar?" He did $15,000, the rest is history.

[@tracykey9227]

Wow, didnt know that.

[@cdldriver2348]

Can't wait until Mystery Scoop gets to my birth year, 1971!!

[@debbiemullen2574]

I was 5 yrs old. I love hearing the history.

[@carlavision6143]

I was born in Aug 1965. Really enjoyed your video!

[@kenharvey8946]

How could anyone leave out as a cultural and entertainment milestone The Beatles playing Shea Stadium. An event up until their arrival could and would not have been considered for any other entertainer.

[@srats56]

beatles = over rated boy band

[@pmafterdark]

The year I was born. Not the best of years but compared to today I'd go back in a second.

[@dkwoodsy2082]

Agreed! I didn’t come around till 2 yrs later, 1967- but even tho those years were filled with problems, they still seemed much simpler compared to now.

[@luftwaffe6521]

Me too

[@SomOsog]

You overlooked The Beatles' concert at Shea Stadium in New York City on 15 August 1965.

[@lucken13]

1965, I turned 2 yrs old! 😍

[@timtighe9389]

I developed a tornado phobia my entire life from the 1965 breakout

[@mannymartinez2102]

My Family moved to the US in 65’ from mexico

[@nomadman1196]

This was the year I got my first bike. Good times.👍

[@glennb8397]

Flash Back, wait till they get to 1969 . The war and this month 52 anniversary of woodstock Aug 15 to 18 . Music, love and will that too. Rock on the great music that ended the 60s and is still heard too.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I was 9 and it was a great time to be a kid there was an abandoned cherry orchard near the house we would ride or bikes and eat and pick cherries until dinnertime. Our parents would swing by and check on us without interfering with or fun.

[@oldbroad797]

I was in high school then, and I was silly enough to think if it didn't happen close to me - it didn't matter. I soon grew up and discovered that it all meant something!

[@barbarak2836]

I know what you mean. So many interesting things happened when I was in high school and college that I was only vaguely aware of at the time. Now I try to pay attention!

[@jchow5966]

Thia is so interesting! This helps me understand how & what my parents were doing & rxperiencing & thinking about when i was very young. I enjou trying to figure out what adult life was like back then. ☮️💟

[@doloreshuntoon7698]

In February of 1965, CBS broadcasted a romantic musical fairytale fantasy TV special entitled Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella." It starred Leslie-Ann Warren in the title role and the late Stuart Damon as Prince Charming.

[@pamelahsmithsmith2366]

I saw the Beatles that same year in Minneapolis, tickets were around $5.50..

[@robertabrams8562]

Wow, I turned 5 in sept of ‘65

[@lauradaly8020]

On November 9th, a blackout caused a large amount of people in the Northeastern part of the country to be without electricity for several hours. I was one of those people

[@miriambucholtz9315]

Hurricane Betsy also smacked into Miami, FL a few days earlier. It was headed right for us, we had just moved to Miami and I didn't know anybody, we were supposed to go to a restaurant for my 19th birthday, and it looked like I was going to be stuck in the house yet again. I swear, I cursed that storm up to the 26th parallel so we could go out, and the storm turned around during the night and came straight back and hit us. Our power was out for 3 days (I can still remember the smell of what had been in the refrigerator) but at least I got my evening out.

[@WilliamKearns5393]

R.I.P Suses Kearns, 1965-2012.

[@marknesselhaus4376]

I was 9 that year and as a side note I later bought the same Sony video recorder used and it came with a bootleg copy of the then new first Star Wars in black and white and took three reels of tape for the entire movie.

[@morgandierra]

My mom was born on October 26 1965.

[@claylyons6447]

Me.... February 31st.

[@justme8837]

I was a year old in 65, I wish I could have been older to remember it.

[@nonamegame9857]

I remember that Palm Sunday tornado in Michigan. There were two by fours stuck solidly into large oak trees and there had been boats from the lakes that had been found up to 15 miles away. Scary times😱😮

[@drewski1535]

That was some outbreak I’m still in shock when I watch old movie clips about that day

[@davidllewis4075]

Met my wife on February 12th and we had first date on 14th. Told my best friend I'd met the woman I was going to marry, which I did on November 6th of same year. So, something good happened in 1965.

[@Kevin-yh9yt]

I remember all those events except the most surprising: Judy Garland opening the Astrodome....with the Supremes??? And tickets were a dollar!! Crazy years those were, to be sure....

[@annarodriguez9868]

Minimum wage was about $1 in 65. Look at movie ticket prices now compared to a live show with great stars!

[@LatinCuz]

I was born in 1965.

[@jamesslick4790]

The 1965 Sony home video recorder (CV-2000) was a VTR (video tape recorder) but not a VCR (video cassette recorder). It used tape on open reels rather than a tape contained in a cassette, Sony's first VCR was the U-Matic introduced in 1969. All VCRs are VTRs, But not all VTRs are VCRs. LOL.

[@Daledavispratt]

Interesting history on TGIF..back when the internet happened in person, I suppose.

[@libertyann439]

I was 8. Disappointed I couldn't go to a Beatles concert. Did not know that story about The Monkees!

[@David-yw2lv]

I went into the second grade,& was assigned to the teacher I considered my favorite in elementary school.

[@svenmartin840]

In 1965. The 24 Hours of Daytona debuted. The Ford Cobra Daytona came out period and Jim Hall won the 12 hours of Sebring

[@ChasOnErie]

And we got married and started our life ... 60 years of "sunshine and lollipops "...

[@James-rb8tu]

I love that song

[@vm722]

Great year 1965👍

[@h.j.d.2624]

Groovy !

[@lettucetacoboutit7974]

My mom was 21 and newly married ❤

[@Tiberius291]

I was 6 years old in first grade and remember Joe Namath restaurants called 'Broadway Joes' here in Miami Florida.

[@cyclenut]

I turned 2. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Kids today don't have it as good.

[@noble604]

King’s march from Selma to Montgomery when he and the activists were stormed on by Alabama State Troopers on the day called “Bloody Sunday” eventuated in LBJ’s signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This is depicted today in the movie, “Selma.”

[@noble604]

To be clear, John Lewis marched first on Bloody Sunday in March 1965 and attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, however, the crowd was beaten back by Alabama State Troopers, sicced on by attack dogs and beaten with clubs.. men and women, young and old. This was all over media and television in the US and the world. MLKing led a second attempt to cross the Pettus Bridge and it was this attempt which led to LBJ’s signing of the Voting Rights Act and which is depicted in the movie today, “Selma.”

[@williamzander4732]

The movie Selma wasn't that good first Bull Conner Had hit Birmingham, AL with dogs and jail for even though he used Federal and State civil Defense money and Jim Clark the sheriff was a clone of Bull Connor. You can run that road today and nobody cares .Hard times .But good people. Bull Connor was a Grand Wizard in the kkk and they still voted him in office.

[@noble604]

William Zander - Yes, there’s much to say about Bull Connor and others who participated, for sure. When films aren’t documentaries, much is omitted in depictions in the “recreation” of history through drama. Their makers generally use the disclaimer that “this story of based on actual events but some events have been recreated ...” It’s likely virtually impossible to get all the sides end angles in the retelling of a story of any time in history - particularly in a time where many in it are still alive and want other things added. Thankfully, there’s video and still footage - as used above in this video - of some of the actual events which took place on Bloody Sunday, and the producers of “Selma” used this historical footage, as well, to recreate some scenes in the movie. Agreed, much is untold in films (for various reasons) and other things are emphasized/ overemphasized for dramatic effect. “Selma” is just a reference I used to show the sequence of events of how that day mentioned in this video led to the second Selma march, eventually resulting in the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a pivotal piece of federal legislation with enormous impact and a turning point in American history and an extremely notable social, political and internationally significant event of that year - even to the present.

[@luisreyes1963]

The year my older brother was born.

[@orangehoof]

Funny how the Astrodome officially opened on December 17th when the Houston Astros had played an entire baseball season in the Dome before this. The stadium was opened on April 9th, 1965 in an exhibition baseball game attended by President Johnson, among other luminaries.

[@1985OldSkool]

In fact, the Houston Colt 45s officially became the Houston Astros on December 1, 1964, and opened the Astrodome with an exhibition against the New York Yankees on Friday, April 9, 1965, with Mickey Mantle hitting the first-ever home run. The Astros lost to the Phillies 2-0 in the official debut three days later.

[@Swaggybro77]

My greatest moment was when I went to New York with in 96 where I sat at Peter Jennings desk I actually went to ABC News studio it was awesome I'm going to miss Peter who was one of the greats

[@scratchdog2216]

Born in '65. Good year.

[@arthurcrunden6107]

The year I was born

[@madamesalamander16]

I still get an occasional craving for Spaghettios, and I will always be a Daydream Believer!

[@stischer47]

We're the best there are alive, we're the Class of '65.

[@James-rb8tu]

Old fart

[@stischer47]

@@James-rb8tu Yep!!!!

[@kurtkauffman4326]

I was born on 1/17/1965 in Escanaba,Michigan.

[@marywilliamson1260]

❤

[@fob1xxl]

I was 19. I moved away from home. I started a career. I was successful. I got drafted. Life was hanging on a string. Kids today have no idea what it's like to have a war dictate your career and life and possibly death.

[@mensaconservative7887]

@4:08 that was NOT a VCR. The C stands for cassette. You show a reel to reel machine.