This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 6

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1950-1970

  • US/UN invasion of Korea and war with China

  • The Red Scare and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  • The Cuban Revolution

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Texaco/Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian Amazon

  • The Six Day War and the Israeli attack on the NSA spy ship, the USS Liberty

  • The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam

  • The antiwar movement in the US and around the world

  • Martin Luther King, Jr assassination and the Poor People’s March on Washington

  • Anti-Catholic pogroms and refugee crisis in Ireland

  • Columbia Eagle Mutiny

  • Kent State Massacre

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