Posted by
reasonmclucus on Sunday, March 09, 2008 3:13:03 AM
I'm watching a PBS special I recorded earlier called the "Boomer Generation". I hope the rest of it is better researched than the part about the Kennedy administration. The speaker ignores the fact the oldest of us were high school freshmen when John F. Kennedy was elected and senior when he was assassinated. We were not a significant factor in the civil rights movement as the show suggests. The young people who aided the civil rights movement were from the generation born during the depression and WWII who are often ignored because there were fewer of them. They were the first members of the Peace Corps. Except in a couple of states we couldn't even vote until the 1968 election.
The documentary also misrepresents 50's television by ignoring the numerous female characters like Lois Lane who were not housewives and who may have encouraged baby boomer girls to look for careers outside the home when they became women.
http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1227591