Showing posts with label Lynn Peril. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynn Peril. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

This Week In '66 - Fin

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  With Lynn Peril With 44 installments behind us, we’ve come to the last episode of This Week in ‘66! In addition to some news stories (JFK!...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril The first week of August 1966 was not only a microcosm of that whole tumultuous year, but also a harbinger of the twenty-f...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

This Week In '66 - The Fishers Disappear

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  With Lynn Peril Were there more kidnappings and disappearances than usual in 1966, or am I just attracted to those stories? If it’s the la...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril It was the week that Bobby Fuller died under mysterious circumstances and Mrs. America 1966 gave her opinions on fighting ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril This is the week in 1966 when eight young women, six student nurses and two visiting exchange nurses from the Philippines,...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

This Week In '66 - Annette Buchanan

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  With Lynn Peril Annette Buchanan was the brave, principled 20-year-old managing editor of the University of Oregon’s campus newspaper. In ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril It’s Wednesday, and that means a new episode of This Week in ‘66! On June 26, 1966, James Meredith led 16,000 people to th...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

This Week In '66 - Black Power

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  With Lynn Peril The week of June 13, 1966 saw the birth of the Miranda warning, the death of Him, a jilted bride and the end of a $25,000 ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril During the week of June 6, 1966, activist James Meredith was gunned down in Mississippi, Claudette Orbison died, and Dr. S...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

This Week In '66 - Hedy Lamarr's Sticky Fingers

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  With Lynn Peril The news for the week of April 25 was a microcosm of 1966’s repeating themes, some frivolous, one definitely not: UFOs, lo...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

This Week In '66 - Human Sexual Response

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  With Lynn Peril The big news This Week in '66 was the publication of William Masters and Virginia Johnson's Human Sexual Response ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

This Week In '66 - Lynda and George

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  With Lynn Peril In addition to the usual round up of war protests and UFOs, this week’s deep dive is into the big celebrity relationship o...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

This Week In '66 - Baby Jane Holzer

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  With Lynn Peril Maybe because both Passover and Easter took place this week in ‘66, it was a slooooooow one for news. Well, there was a to...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

This Week In '66 - A Kidnapping In Florida

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  With Lynn Peril A young woman go-going her way through college, fatalities from adulterated beer, and a draft-dodging ring were all in the...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

This Week In '66 - Stamp Out Smut!

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  With Lynn Peril This Week in ‘66, seventeen-year-old Peggy Fleming won figure skating gold, a pair of Gemini program astronauts died in an...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

This Week In '66 - Hairspray Hazards

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  With Lynn Peril The Sioux nations continues their claim, filed in 1923, for payment for the U.S. Government’s theft of the Black Hills; Le...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril SHOW NOTES: “30 Delinquent Girls Escape in Rampage,” Chicago Tribune, February 17, 1966, 5.  Green, Jim, “Hoosier Hustings...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

This Week In '66 - Hicks vs. Hippies

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  With Lynn Peril Andy Warhol’s Uptight and more missing nuclear materials were in the news This Week in 66, along with a custody battle tha...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril SHOW NOTES The death of the fifth Mrs. Mickey Rooney in a shocking murder-suicide was in the headlines This Week in ‘66!  ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

This Week In '66

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  With Lynn Peril Adults trying to control teens’ bodies are in the news This Week in ‘66! A Chicago judge decided whether or not a boy need...