Simon and Garfunkel - Music and Activism - 1969 TV Special Causes Controversy - WWW.JTMP.ORG

[ThirdChoice]

Run time: 08:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrHfvCluuJk   Posted on YouTube: August 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: JTMPAdmin Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 20, 2011 By DU Member: ThirdChoice Views on DU: 2930

 
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[jerseyjack]

1. Can the documentary be seen anywhere?

[Voice for Peace]

2. there's a dvd

http://www.thevideobeat.com/music-documentaries/simon-garfunkel-america-1969.html

[cyberpj]

14. That would be the original doc, right? But where can one see this commentary? I checked our

Palladia schedule (saw it in the corner of the video) and it's not on within the next two weeks here.

OR -- Is the commentary we see in the video included in the 'for sale' DVD?

Thanks.

[Voice for Peace]

16. I'm sorry I don't know the answer

[mucifer]

3. Thanks for posting this. I thought the last line from Simon

might have been cut off. "This is ok because it was who we WERE" . I'm curious about who he is now. I know we all grow as we age. I'm glad he has some pride about
his music in the past. It just left me with some questions.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Rec for Paul and Art. nt

[Harriety]

5. I watched this recently on PBS. I was and is still awesome. Made me cry....

[leveymg]

6. KNR. If you don't offend AT&T, your political documentary probably isn't very good.

[PatrynXX]

7. Frankly if you don't offend someone

it isn't very good

Documentaries are like art. Supposed to provoke a discussion. An effective documentary will do that. Hence while Michael Moor continue's to make Docs.

[leveymg]

9. Michael Moore is an artist for a lot of reasons. That he offends reactionaries is icing.

But, I agree, his work would be far poorer without political content.

[David Sky]

8. Been fighting the corporatist conservative draft-dodging G W Bush type bastards ever...

since then. As the French say...

<<Plus change, plus la meme chose!>>

As much as things change, as much as it's the same damn thing.

[MrMickeysMom]

10. K&R...Simon & Garunkel....

Daring to create a new world...

[newfie11]

11. And here we are 40+ years later

Still in wars, still prejudice, now with Muslims in addition to brown and black skinned people. I can only wonder where this country would be today if these 3 men had not been killed.

[fasttense]

12. It's not balanced, they are all democrats. We think of them as all assassinated people.

Very telling. It's always the liberals that are murdered.

[newfie11]

13. yes murdered because they were trying to improve this country

and were not bought and paid for.
edit:typo

[riverbendviewgal]

15. 1969 was a pivotal year in my life.

I was born in NJ...
graduated high school in 65. I wrote to military men who were drafted, went out with them but in 1968 I changed.
I saw the riots after MLK was killed.
I saw the train go by in NJ with Bobby Kennedy who was killed go by..

I read the obituaries in the local paper of my classmates dying.

I changed my views. I read more.

and I ended up marrying in 68 and going to Canada with my husband on Woodstock weekend in 1969 because of Viet nam and his orders to go there.

I have never regretted it.

This trailer brought me back to those days, those songs and those attitudes...

We need another big march...in all big cities. We need it very much.. We are bigger than the Tea Baggers.

[big lu]

17. KnR! Great clip, thank you ThirdChoice