The 1970s: When America Changed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2020
- A brief overview of the high profile events of the 1960s and 70s that caused America to forever change in the 1970s. Events as far ranging as the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK to Vietnam, Watergate, the fall of Saigon, the early surrender of the Panama canal, Skylab and so many other things forever changed how Americans view their own government and see themselves to this day.
The photo on the left at 7:35 is Roy E. Disney, son of Roy O. Disney. Roy E. Disney lived until 2009.
Apologies for the changing sound levels. It did not do that on my PC. - บันเทิง
As a man born in the 70's, it's enlightening to watch these docs, and realise the world and pressures my parents lived with.
People born in the 70s seem to be the most out of place. Everything they ever planned seems to have gone wrong and now the boomers and the millennials are trying to make sense of the collective world that screwed them up.
I just turned 30 recently, and I moved to US nearly half of my age. I take history personally, but never really looked into American history that was before my time. I clicked on this video in hopes of seeing 'happy' people living and experiencing 70s, but rather saw a broader picture and learned more history than from any other video. All I'm here to say is that first, I love America and I'm thankful for an opportunity to be here (thanks to my mother), and second, I wanted to thank whoever made this video. The voice, music, craftmanship of this video made it better than majority of any other documentaries I've seen. Your voice is godsend. Thanks a lot for putting work into this and letting many learn of how 70s were. Great job and thank you, I hope I'll be learning and enjoying more of your work. Cheers!
This is VERY good!! I, too, was 9 years old in 1970, so it doesn't surprise me that you make some of the very same observations here that I have had over the years. We grew up in a truly fascinating time. Thanks for this.
FANTASTIC video! I am just a few years older than you, and I remember every detail of what you showed quite vividly. This was incredibly well done. I will be watching this over and over again. Many thanks!
Thanks
Wow Max. I felt a knot in my stomach watching this. Being born 1955, I have witnessed all of this. In 74 I was in basic training in Texas when Nixon resigned. I went on to a 24 year Air Force career as the rest unfolded.
In 1978 I was hiking with friends in the Durango area of Colorado when two very fit young people came down the trail towards us completely naked except for packs and boots. They stopped to chat and then hiked on. I will never forget that young woman and her lack of tan lines.
No one thought anything of it, this was the 70's and marijuana, nudity and back-to-nature was the ''rocky mountain high'' we all wanted in our lives.
Good job man - I was a 1971 birth and have always been fascinated with the strangeness of the 1970’s. The most startling part being that despite the chaos and malaise this decade produced some of the greatest movies and music - some would say thee greatest.
It was a time of great good and great bad
I was a 1974 birth. The 70s was an interesting decade
Thought provoking reflections on a decade often ignored . Thank you .
I turn 64 tomorrow . been waiting a few decades for this one ! In 1970 I was 11 and was clueless about the world except the really big stuff . This video is rattling a lot of stuff out of my memories that I had forgotten !
I am 56 and Remember a Lot of this . Thank You for putting this together , Today's Youth Need to Understand what Happened so that they can get what happened and Why People from the 1970's are the way they are :) QC
Aww I didn’t want this to end!!! Love this. Well done. ❤
it’s always nice to watch documentaries on times i’ll never get to experience
I'm two years late, but this is a super neat video!! I love all of the information and pictures! :)
Great video. I met general Westmoreland at a conference my college was hosting in the 78. Very nice man.
Thanks for that Max in 1970 I was 9 years old all this old footage brings back a lot of memories..
You did an absolutely fantastic job with this. You captured the mood perfectly and hit so many on point beats!
Brought back a lot of memories. I played little league baseball with the team my dad’s business sponsored. A friend of my dad owned a Union 76 gas station and he also sponsored a team that usually beat everyone. During the gas crunch I used to wait in line at that gas station to fill up my ‘75 Chevy. Years later the owner and his wife won a big lottery, sold the station and retired. It made the newspaper as I recall.
Thanks for the memory trip, Maxsmodels. 1970 was 2 years before I joined the Army, in 1972. What a Life I have lived. ❤
Great video. I was born in the 70s, and your video hits all the points my parents went through in that decade. Oddly enough, it seems history is repeating itself this decade.
Our troops were pulled out of Afghanistan after a long, protracted war in a quick way and left people who needed our help. This was reminiscent of the fall of Siagon. Shortages, inflation, corruption, and mistrust of every level of government, fear that our environment is going to hell (back then they called it the greenhouse effect, today climate change. Crime, especially in urban areas is through the roof, and we are having a tough time with the Chinese and the Russians.
I knew it 🤦🏼♀️ all of this is nothing new. Thanks for sharing your experience
Afghanistan saw the loss of around 2,400 troops unlike Vietnam which saw the loss of over 58,000 American troops were killed, the scale is totally off the charts. I don't think you can compare the two. We went in to Afghanistan because American soil was attacked and almost 3,000 innocent American Civilians were murdered while living their normal lives on 9/11 by terror attacks. By the time of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 only 2,500 American forces were in Afghanistan mostly training forces, intelligence, a communications hub and the one single air base, a very very small force. Also, American losses per year were under 30 solders since 2016 so real combat had pretty much ended after Osama was captured. In the final 5-6 years in Afghanistan under 100 American Solders were lost while in Vietnam some 20,000 American solders were lost in just the last 5-6 years of war.
@@drscopeify Afghanistan was an American vassal state in the region, which projected American power in central Asia. The loss of Afghanistan was a huge psychological blow to America, similar to the loss of South Vietnam. It showed the world that America is losing its' touch and is on it's way out as an international hegemon. There is no more American influence in the whole of central Asia anymore.
@@drscopeifyyou are sooooo indoctrinated. Dig deeper man. This is superficial Fox News stuff
Great watch! I wish I was around for the 70’s because of my obsession with new Hollywood & popular music. This video connected so many dots and I will definitely be rewatching.
Thanks for doing this documentary of the 70’s I was born in 67 really enjoyed watching it thank you again
I turned 9 in 1970 as well! I was born in 1961, I've enjoyed the 60s & 70s. It was the best time to grow up even though I was a foster during all my childhood and never adopted, I would still do it all over again, lol.
That brought back so many memories. Thank you.
For those of us who are a little older than you Max we saw the late 60's and 70's as a time of change. We thought that anything and everything was possible and doable. It was a remarkable and exciting time in all respects. We knew we were watching history being made;even as we lived our own lives. Vietnam was and still is ever present in our conscious. What soured many on the war was not the war itself so much as us not trying to win it and there being no achievable goals. I lost buddies and family members to the war and it was for naught. We began to trust the politicians less and less. With concern to the politicians nothing has changed in the 2020's. So all in all the 70's was indeed when American changed.
Agreed
Amazing documentary - I'm English, born in the late 70s and didn't really know so much about the era, so thank you for a great video that educated me.
Well done. Informative and well narrated.
I was born in "65. I remember body counts on the evening news, Watergate dominating, even plate/odd plate gas rationing. My (much older) siblings' friends coming home from Viet Nam, many physically or emotionally crippled...if they came back at all. Riots all over and Kent State.
The Iran hostage crisis. Food prices skyrocketing as wages stayed the same. Half my town's factories closing.
Discos and roller skating were the high points for me, plus glam fashion.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Mr. Max, as painful as it was.
That's the way I remember it. Very good job sir. Thank you for your efforts.
This was an amazing video! Thank you. One of the same style on the 1980's would be a great watch.
Well done.. I was born in 1963 in Australia , So too young to get it. But I could see and sense the malaise, cynicism, change, etc. One thing I thought you might mention was the spread of heroin in 1970 and the urban rot and decay that followed the building of freeways through cities which divided communities.
What ❤ a awesome job you did on this documentary. Thank you! You’re helping me write a book!
Outstanding
It's this sort of content I enjoy... You do great documentary/personal reflection stuff! I wonder how I missed this one? Anyway, I'm seeing it now! Absolutely terrific!
thanks
I remember sitting in my friends bedroom about 1971 and I said who's stuff is all that.. it's my older brother's, he's in the war, he's coming back...never thought much about it.
Nice video and soundtrack!
And from one vet to another, welcome home and thanks for your service!👍👍
thanks
A"vet", seeesh 😬
thank you for your service. Thanks you for speaking on your experience!
This was excellent, very professionally done. Please make more videos like this, thank you.
I will try
Very well done! Born in 77 here, and although I mostly remember the 80s growing up, there’s something about the 1970s that fascinates me like no other decade. Such a weird and chaotic time it’s amazing we came away in one piece as a country! I can see why by the end of that decade Reagan would win two elections in a row starting in 1980!
Fantastic video! You deserve way more subscribers!
I got exactly what I was looking for and so much more insight. After this video I want to hear the story continue in the 80s
Wow! That brought back a lot of memories! Great video.
I grew up in the 60's but managed to miss the exsistense of Hobby Time . Thanks for the history lesson.
Fantastic video. Very informative and well done.
I was born in 1960. Remembering that decade and having a fair grasp of events that happened before I was born, I'm always amused when people complain that this or that happening today is "the worst it's ever been". When what they mean is it's the worst that they personally have seen.
This is an excellent video. I was born in 1962. I remember seeing news of the Vietnam War on tv and my dad telling me he hoped I wouldn't have to go. Not a good thing to tell a young boy because it scared me. I remember Watergate hearings preempting my afternoon Gilligan's Island or whatever.
21:55 where American history meets personal history for you! thanks for sharing! god bless you.
Fantastic video! So much information packed in. Really fascinating decade. The parallels to today are quite interesting as well. How odd it is that some decades seem to "rhyme" with others in the way that they unfold.
Btw, Subscribed!!!
It’s crazy how many parallels I can see as a teenager in the current times
You aren't wrong, its damn scary to see all of the bad connections, so much more disturbing and really negative news and events it seems, the only area where we're doing better at than back then and that's all the leftist/communist and anarchist bombings of the 70s. The 70s was a dark dark day, but things are even darker now.
I was a college student in the 2000s and it felt much like this.
we've got a long road ahead of ourselves as we grow and develop into adults, especially now with the loss in afghanistan and all of the trouble at home
Hi Max, Thanks for the walk down memory lane. You and I are the same age as I was also 9 in 1970. I joined the USAF on delayed entry January 1979 and reported to basic training in June 1979 after graduating from High School. The one thing you missed in the 1970's was the largest corporate bankruptcy in US history, the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad which lead to the creation of ConRail (Consolidated Rail Corporation) a company created by the US Government to save all the bankrupt railroads in the Northeast. Having grown up in the steel belt just West of Pittsburgh PA, I remember the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central railroad merger, the collapse of Penn Central and the rise of the Phoenix known as Conrail. In the 1980's Conrail began turning a profit. Sadly I also remember the fall of big steel in the early 1980's, but that a subject for another video. Thanks Max for the video and the walk down memory lane. Cheers, Rich S.
Yeah, the railroads were all hurting and AMtrak was/is on life support. The era of pax rail was passing but freight has kept it going.
well presented...... the emotional tone of much of that time comes through... even if we all see it from our own particular circumstances! cheers
Superb work.
Awesome upload.
This was a very well put together informative video. Can you do one for the 60s?
Loved this!!
This is one of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam, and I've seen quite a few.
Also, I feel that if you wanted to put the 1970's into one year, it would be 2020, at least so far.
That was great! Thank you!
I know this is really late but I'd really like to see a follow-up talking about the 80's
I graduated from High School in 1971...and the draft lottery resulted in my number being in the 70's. That was one of the last years they were sending draftees to Vietnam and there weren't any College deferments! I resolved myself to going to Vietnam. My family always had high blood pressure. When I went for my draft physical, I was told to return and be reexamined by a specialist. Having been a varsity wrestler in High School sports, I thought that to be a temporary reprieve. I spent nearly two months riding my Honda CB350 motorcycle, around the country with my clothes rolled up in my bedroll, sleeping on one occassion camping in a wooded highway median. Six months later, I was summoned back for my follow up exam. A young doctor came into the examention room and started testing my blood pressure. At that point I was convinced that I was going and actually told the doctor that I guessed that the draft would be the best for me, as I had little money and wanted to go to college and eventually seek a law degree. While examining me he asked me, "Jim, do you want to go?" I looked at him and said, "Well if you ask me, do i want to go to Vietnam, I have to say no." He thought for a second as said, "I will take care of it."
A random encounter that changed my life! My tale of the 70's!
Great job! I subscribed.
I was 16 in 79 and i remember my dad saying this is not the america he knew when he was younger. Case in point during the nyork blkout in 78 high crime a looting. The blackout in the late 60s very little crime and looting. Time sqiare im those ten yrs changed horribly. People quit caring in those 10 yrs
World events aside, I just remember that the 1970s was the start of the increase in economic disparities. Prior to the 1970s, you could work at a gas station and afford a home. One income was all it took to provide for a family. Now the 1970s were good compared to today, but the when they were compared to the 50s/60s, it's clear that this decade things started to deteriorate. So many divorces. Families started to fall behind. Inflation. Debt.
The 2020s look so much worse, that I would take the 1970s in a heartbeat.
1970s issues or 2020s issues..which would you rather have?
Some people might wax poetic over the 70's, but it's rather hard to feel nostalgic over that decade, except for one's own life experiences.
I’m about the same age as you. I really enjoyed this video.
Did the truck movies that spawned after 55 MPH include Smokey and the Bandit? Had no idea why they made a truck movie that was so good at a kid, makes a lot more sense now.
Yes, it was part of that genre if not somewhat more lighthearted
The end of the 70’s was the best time of my life. I was 6 or 7 years old
70s were a turbulent time as the country was changing. too fast for some, not fast enough for others. The social issues of the time began to reveal divides within society that didnt previously exist. Some musicians captured this tension in their art. The artist whom best did this isnt well known. Gil Scott Heron, look him up.
One correction, it was less that these divides didn't exist before but more that there was much more awareness of these problems which were previously ignored. This of course led to tensions as the more conservative sectors of society didn't want to deal with these long overlooked issues and thus tried to stall progress as much as possible while those who were a part of the marginalized sectors and their supporters wanted greater change and fought for they saw as a chance for better representation.
I turned one in 1970. Great video👍
The photo on the left at 7:35 is Roy E. Disney, son of Roy O. Disney. Roy E. Disney lived until 2009.
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@@maxsmodels When you're omnipotent you have to know these sort of things.
1970s is a template for what is happening in the USA today
I Also Turned 9 That Year, But I Consider The Second Half Of The Sixties As Part Of My Childhood Growing Up!⭐🕊️
0:07 Moon Launch, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Baseball
1:17 Assassinations, Massacre
2:27 Patriotic Middle Class & College Teenagers
3:37 Apollo ‘13 Internal Explosion
4:40 Mi’Li” Massacre 5:28 Napalm, Celebrity Activism, Kent State Shootings
6:08 Sterling Hall Bombings
6:43 Budget Deficit, Voting Age now 18 instead of previous 21 years old.
7:27 Disney World
7:48 WaterGate Break In
Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda
9:03 World Terrorism
9:49 Paris Peace Accords, No War Draft, WaterGate Trial, Occupation, SkyLab
11:34 Battle of The Sexes Tennis Match, Arab-Israeli War, Oil Embargo Energy Crisis.
13:18 Unemployment Stagflation
14:08 Chevrolet, Ford production and sales decline. Japanese Car Company Sales Triple!!!
15:09 Gerald Ford Amnesty
15:52 Music and Movies
16:12 THE FALL OF SAIGON
18:33 200 Year Birthday For America 🇺🇸
20:08 Elvis Charlie Chaplin Groucho Marxs Freddie Prince
20:52 WEAK Jimmy
21:37 De-Regulation of Airplanes Industry
22:10 3 MILE ISLAND CRISIS
23:12 Iran Hostage Crisis
23:46 NUMB
It was a time that still resonates more heavily today than we often realize
To me the 70s did bring BIG change to America. In 70 the US oil production peaked and the cost of living was increasing. These two events started factories in the US to shut down and relocated to other countries.
From WW2 through the 60s there were MANY factories and most Americans worked in factories. The Factories continued shutting down and relocating through till about 2000.
After 70 the US started becoming a major oil importer.
The fall of saigon was nothing compared to the failed pullout of afghanistan.
Well done I am the same age as you and remember all this but I passed high school in 80 went to the arm after that basic was in Fort Dix NJ
Sad truth is the late 20th century was the time where we are as a society now. The era could've been a lot better to improve the future, but many people back then chose to be stagnant on change. Music started to suck, movies started to suck, cars started to suck; everything started to suck. Everything we love is gone from that era. We may be nostalgic on the 70s and 80s, but man those 2 decades sucked.
Great video. I grew up in that era and even as a kid I knew things were going to %$#@! The 80's were a time of hope....unfortunately the decades that followed were not so pretty.
I´m from germany and I´m going to play a tabletop rpg that plays in this area. Your video helps a lot. Thank you
Everyone just wants freedom, if only every generation could learn from history😌✌️🕊️☮️🌈🌎🙏
America. Number 1 comedy show in Canada.
@2:57 Holy moly, I spy a Synthi and a minimoog. I wonder if they kept them :)
Max, that was fantastic! Well done! unbias! something really hard to find now days! Is a little sad for me, I was born somewhere else and I always loved America! In the late 90's I got a job offer to come here because W2K and the rest is history! Mistakes were made in the 60's and 70's, sure, we are humans and it would be pretentious for me to say, that I could do better than Nixon or Cater, but from I come from, their sins are an every day thing! I always think it would be nice, if that people who think this is such a bad place, spend some time somewhere else, so they can come back, happy to be Americans! Thanks Max for such a gift!
thx
As someone who was born in 2002, itd be interesting if you were to do a video for the 2020s once they’re over 😅
One of our traditional values used to be not letting ambitious generals send our young men into guerilla wars they secretly admitted we couldn't win. Also not pardoning corrupt politicians. I much prefer Reagan's idealistic honesty over Nixon's naked betrayal of America.
Let's show the love for each other and never give up on each other or are would or I kids much love 😘
Problem with America in the 70s we forgot that we were just another country of common people.
Awesome
I thought an American retrospective on that decade would have had a lot of fun, but nope, it was kind of depressing by comparison.
Being born in 1961 we have the same minds eye.
I can't say that I learned anything new in this video but found the perspective interesting. It wasn't the standard cheerful pet rock, disco, leisure suit version of the 1970s, which anyone who lived through the decade knows that wasn't really what the 70s were about. I'm about the same, age born on the last day of 1960 and also enlisted in the Army (in 1978) and have a less negative viewpoint of the decade. Not that I disagree with the facts and opinions stated, I just think that it's more of an adult perspective, as if you were 35 at the start of the decade. While I realize that in the 1980s the economy took a turn upward as did national morale and was a good time to be a young adult, I also think that the 1970s was a great time to be a kid/teenager. Even though the Evening News projected a certain degree of negativity, most of us weren't yet consumed with politics or current events that didn't directly affect us. We were just living life in an era far more free than later generations would experience in their youth and not yet bombarded with information and misinformation from all angles.
The 70's definitely had it's faults, but I would relive it again in a heartbeat compared to the world today.
I am more left leaning, and I get the feeling that the filmmaker leans more right. BUT! No work of man is completely unbiased and I thought there was an appropriate amount of “himself” in the film, but not obnoxiously so, and mainly sticks to the facts, presenting them in a clear and efficient way. *****/5.
thank you
good video...1973 Secretariat...
New version: The 2020s when America Changed again
From the tone of your voice I can sense your disdain for carter and also how you still wanted to continue intervention in Vietnam even after all those troop deaths you mentioned. You’re the reason why Americas gets into long costly quagmires.
I turned 5 in 1970. I would say that the 1970s was a fun decade.
Nice review of recent history...I’m the same age as you, so can obviously relate...I remember these same moments. It was an interesting mix of technological and social change. Cronkite...Imagine a journalist being the most trusted man in America? Jane Fonda...why she was allowed to return to the US and not be tried for treason, escapes me. Oh well, time to get back on that kit on my bench...
whatchya buildin?
maxsmodels : currently finishing up the old Pyro Russian Spy Fishing Trawler from the early ‘60s. Interesting side note...I loved the old box art and saw the artists signature ‘ A.J Rudisill’ on the box art...looked him up and he’s still painting in his 80’s...mostly nature art now. Contacted him and he forgot about that commission he did as a young artist and he asked for a picture of the boxart!
If to compare 1970s to 2020s, looks like history is repeating again but in a worst way ...🤔
I think there’s an argument for 1975 that wasn’t so much that the peace left with America, but the peace America only wanted was only possible if America was there. Short of staying and making Vietnam a state, there’s not much else that could be done that could justify staying in Vietnam longer and longer and determined to make it Democratic. The Vietnamese people have the freedom to choose for themself, and that can include the “right” or “wrong” one because they’re not you.
I agree that America wasn’t prepared to see what would happen when the whole thing ended. Especially after Afghanistan there’s a lot of feelings that we really didn’t know how to leave, just to stay and prop up what we wanted. I don’t think it’s fair to say America doesn’t know how to do this, as rough as it was European occupation was ended and those countries are healthy and strong after devastating wars. Vietnam may be in a rougher area to develop in, but there are clear standout successes such as Singapore and China that are strong, if not in a way everyone thinks is good. But America was militarily strong, just not politically competent to admit what it wanted out of that military. Not saying they should’ve annexed Vietnam or think that’s what was being attempted, but saying that and doing it is easier for everyone to understand and is your true beliefs a lot more than back and forth pretending. Pentagon Papers were big in part because of how medical they were in discussing the horrors and real extent of the war. America knew what to do and how to do it, they just didn’t want to admit to it. And a lot of Americans would rather deal with the bad and make it good rather than have to support blindly the good and ignore the bad because it “doesn’t exist.”
It is never easy but the pull out might have worked if Nixon had never tried to cover up the Watergate burglary. We will never know.
NBCNews was unwary enough one evening to report that the Watergate break-in was lookinh for confirmation that McGovern's campaign took money from Castro's Cuba. --Bob Bailey in Maine