About The 1960's The 60's were an amazing time.  The world was awakening through advanced communications, technology was on the wing, many had differing visions of Camelot and how it was to be achieved and a whole generation was about to embark on its journey through the brave new world.  The sixties saw the assassination of JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, witnessed the devastation of a ghastly war in Vietnam, sparked the torch of civil rights, landed a man on the moon, embraced a sexual revolution and spawned a whole subculture of bohemian, experimental souls known as Hippies who were largely responsible for an explosion of creative arts and a shattering of the traditional social mores as well as a political activism that swept the country. The rest of the world was just becoming aware of the great changes to come, but the U.S. was already well on its way to a transformation that few could imagine. In retrospect, it was a time of exploration and mind pioneering that changed forever the way we viewed ourselves, America and our place in the world community.