Substantial Historical Events We Do Not Hear About

[Tankeryanker]

in the show.

What was going on during the late 50s early 60s that should have gotten a mention?

[Bonniegirl]

Alaska becomes a state in 1959 .

[GentlemanJim]

President John F Kennedy sends his presidential aids out to Washington DC tobacco stores to buy up all the Cuban cigars they can get their hands on, for his personal stash, hours before he signs the Cuban embargo into law, making them illegal.

[stevea]

Soviet Union Sputnik I launch in Oct. 1957.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by GentlemanJim

President John F Kennedy sends his presidential aids out to Washington DC tobacco stores to buy up all the Cuban cigars they can get their hands on, for his personal stash, hours before he signs the Cuban embargo into law, making them illegal.

Really? What a jerk. I guess he wasn't the prince everyone makes him out to be. I was born 7 days before his assasanation.

[Scrabjan1]

Good one about Kennedy. Yeah he was no angel. Jackie said in private “Kennedy’s Catholicism shouldn’t have been an issue he wasn’t even a good Catholic.” Bobby was in fact devote. Kennedy’s frolics with Mimi, the intern, was kept silent for many years. He had a dark side no one was privy to.

[TSMIV]

Originally Posted by stevea

Soviet Union Sputnik I launch in Oct. 1957.

That was the night Beaver premiered.

Kennedy/Nixon debates and Kennedy's election was the biggest historic event they didn't discuss. Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Glenn's orbit would have to make the list. I don't remember them ever mentioning NASA or the space race or even Russia or the Soviet Union at all.

People think of the show as a microcosm of the era, but I think the producers wanted it to be more timeless than that.

[Bonniegirl]

Cuban missile crisis in 1962

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by TSMIV

That was the night Beaver premiered.

Kennedy/Nixon debates and Kennedy's election was the biggest historic event they didn't discuss. Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Glenn's orbit would have to make the list. I don't remember them ever mentioning NASA or the space race or even Russia or the Soviet Union at all.

People think of the show as a microcosm of the era, but I think the producers wanted it to be more timeless than that.

Can shows be timeless unless they are set in a specific time period like the westerns, Waltons, LHOTHP etc?

Wards car lets me know what year it is, but then again I guess so does Caroline's bonnet. So I am not sure.

[stevea]

The 1950s sitcoms like Father Knows Best, Beaver, Donna Reed all looked better/less dated when the 1960s came along.

I guess 1950s decor was just awful. Even the 1960s cars look better.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Tankeryanker

Really? What a jerk. I guess he wasn't the prince everyone makes him out to be. I was born 7 days before his assasanation.

If you enjoy reading, this is an excellent book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ide_of_Camelot

The author presents a fairly exhaustive examination of who all might have had a motive to want to see Kennedy dead.. The author offers no conclusion, but it's intriguing to explore that there are 9 (if I recall properly) viable candidates all with plausible motive.

One of the things I remember most vividly from the time period in question, Kennedy had been in the ground scarcely a week, and the way my mother would scoff at anyone who would propose that we needed to figure out who was behind the assassination.

She was convinced that it so obviously was LBJ, that any other pondering was lunacy.
He certainly had the means, method, and motives. And things that have come out in the last 15 years or so have only pointed more in that direction. Funny how moms know such stuff.

[someguy23475]

I don’t recall the topical references appearing much until the early 60s. I’ll have to pay more attention.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by TSMIV

That was the night Beaver premiered.

Kennedy/Nixon debates and Kennedy's election was the biggest historic event they didn't discuss. Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and John Glenn's orbit would have to make the list. I don't remember them ever mentioning NASA or the space race or even Russia or the Soviet Union at all.

People think of the show as a microcosm of the era, but I think the producers wanted it to be more timeless than that.

I think when Beaver was selling water (when it was shut off for repair), Tooey's mother called Ward and aid it was a Communist thing to do (or similar phrasing).

[CosmicCharlie]

Originally Posted by stevea

I think when Beaver was selling water (when it was shut off for repair), Tooey's mother called Ward and aid it was a Communist thing to do (or similar phrasing).

yup

[TSMIV]

Originally Posted by stevea

I think when Beaver was selling water (when it was shut off for repair), Tooey's mother called Ward and aid it was a Communist thing to do (or similar phrasing).

Yes and it's funnier now than it would have been back then.