1961-1980: VOICES.CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ``I lived there for two months and I got 16 (parking) tickets. They were trying to move me out. They were ignorant and backwards and I knew it. I talked to a lawyer and he took it to court. And the judge dismissed the tickets - every one.'' - Ida Kinney, 92, of San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. , a pioneer in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. civil rights movement, on the chilly reception she received when she and her husband first rented a house in an all-white neighborhood in Van Nuys. CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to ``I remember Castro. The house we lived in had a basement and my father stocked it up with food and water. We were ready. That was really scary.'' - Northridge resident Nancy Greenberg, remembering the widespread fear of nuclear conflict with the former Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ROBERT F. KENNEDY ``I think he would have made it. Would it have been better? I think so. I think that, individually, people would be better off. Everyone got involved with Bobby because they felt they could trust him. He had no need of power. He didn't need money. He was running because he wanted to serve.'' - Rosey Grier Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American football player, actor, and Christian minister. One of twelve children, Grier was named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was governor of New York at the time and was elected president later that , the community activist and former Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Ram who was in the room at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy was shot to death. ECOLOGY MOVEMENT ``The riverbed was just full of huge oak trees. I protested (a plan to cut them down to make way for a flood control channel Flood control channels are a series of large, concrete, and empty (except when a flood is actually present) open-air channels that extend a ways below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if and when a flood occurs, the flood will run into the channels, and proceed to be ) and suggested they run the channel through the middle of the property where there weren't any trees. We got nowhere because nobody from the community objected. People wouldn't lift a finger. There's a cement channel there now and nothing to indicate that there was once this beautiful stand of oaks. I can't imagine that happening today. People are much less tolerant of paving over the natural landscape.'' - Dave Brown, Calabasas environmentalist environmentalist a person with an interest and knowledge about the interaction of humans and animals with the environment. and planning commissioner, recalling a failed effort to save oak trees along what was Calabasas Creek in 1965. ``The concern at that time was supporting legislation to approve the clean air and clean water act. I have vague memories of students lying down on the quad with gas masks. I wasn't one of them, but I remember it.'' - Fran Pavley, Former (four-time) mayor of Agoura Hills and California Coastal Commissioner, recalling the first Earth Day and dawning of the environmental movement in 1970. REAGAN PRESIDENCY ``He could ease tension with a story. People who disagreed with him would often end up doing what he wanted without even realizing it.'' - Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born July 29, 1932) formerly represented the state of Kansas in the United States Senate, having served from 1978 to 1997. She was the daughter of Alf Landon, who was the Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican candidate for recalling former President Reagan's legendary personality. ``He had an innate, quick sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" sense of humour, humor, humour . But he also had this incredible depth. He had the ability to zero in on the heart of a complicated issue and sum it all up in about three sentences.'' - David Swope, who served as an official in President Reagan's administration and in his Cabinet when he was California governor. WATTS RIOTS ``Every place you looked there was another fire. It was a different kind of firefighting. Normally, we pride ourselves on not having rekindles. But in this case, where you're being shot at, it was heavy streams, knock it down and get away. I was born and raised here and I couldn't believe this was Los Angeles.'' - Retired Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Capt. John Peterson, who spent three days fighting fires during the Watts Riots in August 1965. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Then a presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan campaigns with former President Gerald R. Ford and Nancy Reagan in November 1980. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion