I need to interview a person who has at least graduated high school during the 1960s?

Question

here are the questions that i need to be answered:

 

1. How old were you when you graduated high school?
2. Where have lived during the 1960's?
3. What was your occupation at that time?
4. What was your marital and family status during the 1960s?
5. When you look back at that time period, what strikes you as being the most important or significant events, trends, or ideas of the time?
6. What was like to live then? What did you do for entertainment? What kinds of music and movies did you listen or see? What were your favorite foods/snacks? What were the fashion styles for men and women?
7. The 1980s was often called the time of the Yuppie or the Me Decade, how would you characterize the 1960s as a time?
8. What differences do you notice about that time period compared to today?
9. What were the things that you enjoyed to do, but are not around today?
10. What did you think about the women's liberation movement?
11. How did you feel about women in the workplace? Did you go with it or against it? Why?

Answer 1

1. 18
2. Massachusetts and Maryland
3. Student
4. Single
5. The Space Race and Apollo Moon Landing; Escalation of the Vietnam War and rising protests against it at home; the Cold War with the Soviet Union; the Civil Rights Movement; the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King; hippies; and (of course) the Beatles.
6. We had broadcast TV but no cable, so there were only a few TV stations.  There was no internet, no PCs, and no cell phones.  So we did a lot outdoors - we played pick-up football, baseball, and kick ball; we played frisbee, SPUD, red rover, red light green light ; we rode bikes, built tree houses, and many more outdoor activities.  There were 2 genres of pop music at the time, soul music and psychedelic music.  Each had its adherents.
7. The 60s was a socially turbulent decade, sparked by fear of nuclear war, protests against the Vietnam War, and the fight for civil rights led by Martin Luther King.  The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was marred by civil protests by opponents of the war that erupted into violence.  There were protests on many college campuses as well.  At Kent State University, National Guard units fired into a crowd of protesters, killing several students.  The Civil Rights movement was marred by violence as well, mostly by its opponents.  Dr. King was assassinated.
8. The US is ultra-conservative today, especially young people.  Winston Churchill once said "Anyone who is not liberal when young has no heart."  Of course, he also said "... and anyone who is not conservative when older has no brains."  Also, parents today are overprotective of their kids.  We were free-range kids in the 60s, out the door on Saturday morning and we didn't come back until dinner.  We not only survived, we thrived. 
9. Kids' lives today are over-booked with organized activities and kids spend too much time indoors. Unstructured outdoor play is an essential part of a good childhood; but it seems non-existent today.
10. All people deserve equal rights and equal pay for the same work.
11. After the 60s, I worked in engineering, which was (and still is) a male-dominated career.  But as time passed, more and more women started appearing as professionals in the workplace and did as good a job as the men.  So I think it's been a good thing for the engineering business.  Women today have many more opportunities in the workplace than they had in my parents' time, and that's due largely to the women's rights movement.

 

Anyway, that's my perspective on the 1960s.  Someone else may see it differently