The imagery of 1969, I remember it well. The Vietnam war was the first war that was televised. Everyone would watch the nightly news at 6:30 pm (take my word for it) and hear the choppers, gunfire and real life screams of people.
I thought it was sheer genius that Hendrix was able to subtly bring that into the national anthem which made it resonate so well with those purchasing his music. But without that background reference I never supposed that younger generations would hear it entirely differently.
> "The imagery of 1969, I remember it well. The Vietnam war was the first war that was televised. Everyone would watch the nightly news at 6:30 pm (take my word for it) and hear the choppers, gunfire and real life screams of people."
Slightly off-topic--
Before my time, but my professor* recalled to our class his experience watching a _live_ news report from Vietnam. Something shocking happened during the broadcast. As a visual-media scholar he contacted the station to obtain a copy. No go. He remarked how he never saw that footage ever again (at that time it would have been over 15 years ago). In our modern digital age it's difficult to imagine anything going live to the nation, and then disappearing.
* (Charles Chess, Introduction to Film, SJSU, c1992)
The thing which blows my mind is that the NIC handle database is simply gone. This was the database of everyone who was responsible for some internet asset (typically a domain name) in some fashion such that it was recorded for operators' use. You could look it up, it was public. Now it's simply gone. (I'm FWM6)
Been following Andy long before he bought the car factory. The story omits his largest customer for his bus company. He does all the transportation for the Detroit Public Schools. He pitched the school system which is always resource constrained that he could take over transport for less than it cost for them to d do it.
I had the great honor of knowing long time Lansing builder and Michigan State trustee Joel Ferguson. He ran Rev. Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign in Michigan. Much to the media's great shock Jackson won the state.
This will go down as one of the most significant acquisitions of the AI era. Sam Altman outmaneuvered everyone. I know Mark Zuckerberg was one of the two finalists.
What amazed me isn't that Achatz is charging $40 for the pie, it's that they're limiting the number sold to 200. First time I've seen a food item treated like numbered art.
Heard a radio interview last evening with the author of this site. He has a new book coming out that broke news about Truman and the bomb. Truman didn't know anything about the nuclear bomb until FDR died and he received a briefing. The military wanted to make Kyoto the first target. But an aide who had visited Kyoto as a young man fought the decision and escalated it up to Truman.
Leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities after Hiroshima warning another city would be destroyed. Sadly the leaflets that dropped on Nagasaki were sent 24 hours after the bombing. The military wanted to keep using nukes after Japan surrendered. Truman was so shocked about the women and children that had already died that he forbade it.
I grew up in Detroit and remember the nuclear drills in elementary school where we'd run to the basement and wait for the all clear. They had military style rations and jugs of water. They warned us not to touch the pipes which were wrapped in asbestos. This was in the late fifties and early sixties. So why was the World Trade Center built using asbestos a dozen years later?
There is a partial paywall for US visitors(only) where users that log-in have access to more content and the BBC news channel stream. There is still ad-supported content for breaking news and some other articles. But some are placed behind a paywall -- and only in the US.
Though, I haven't run in to any paywalled BBC articles posted here (and only submit the one's that are ad-supported [US based])
I thought it was sheer genius that Hendrix was able to subtly bring that into the national anthem which made it resonate so well with those purchasing his music. But without that background reference I never supposed that younger generations would hear it entirely differently.
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