Ape Chronicles #040 - Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive
Ape Chronicles #040 - Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive
Ape Chronicles #040 - Hunter's Planet of the Apes Archive
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Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings <strong>of</strong> Don Juan<br />
Akwesasne Notes starts publication<br />
Tiny Tim<br />
Peter Max<br />
"Unisex clothing"<br />
Aerobics - Dr. Kenneth Cooper<br />
(first use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> term for exercise)<br />
Jogging<br />
Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi<br />
Mahesh Yogi<br />
Forty heart transplants<br />
Joan Baez marries David Harris and David Harris<br />
starts 3 year jail sentence for refusing to register<br />
for <strong>the</strong> draft<br />
Auroville Cooperative, India, founded<br />
Ananda Cooperative Village, Nevada City,<br />
California, founded<br />
THE END - JIM MORRISON - THE DOORS<br />
This is <strong>the</strong> end, beautiful friend<br />
This is <strong>the</strong> end, my only friend<br />
The end <strong>of</strong> our elaborate plans<br />
The end <strong>of</strong> everything that stands<br />
The end No safety or surprise<br />
The end I'll never look into your eyes again<br />
Can you picture what will be<br />
So limitless and free<br />
Desperately in need <strong>of</strong> some stranger's hand<br />
In a desperate land<br />
1968 Events<br />
"spring: Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger<br />
dope bust cases" xx<br />
Jan-May 40,000 students participate in 221<br />
major demonstrations on 101 campuses<br />
Jan The Peace and Freedom Party, which was<br />
founded on June 23, 1967 by people who wanted<br />
to vote for something <strong>the</strong>y could support, runs a<br />
massive voter registration drive placed <strong>the</strong> Peace<br />
and Freedom Party on <strong>the</strong> California ballot.<br />
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org<br />
Many hippies register to vote for <strong>the</strong> first time.<br />
Eldridge Cleaver becomes <strong>the</strong> Peace and<br />
Freedom Party candidate for President<br />
Jan 2 Federal: bilingual education<br />
Jan 5 Spock, C<strong>of</strong>fin, Mitchell Goodman, Michael<br />
Ferber, & Marcus Raskin indicted for delivering<br />
draft cards (Oct)<br />
Jan 9 Beatles Avedon photos/posters appear in<br />
Look magazine (<strong>the</strong>y had also appeared in Stern<br />
magazine in Germany in 1967)<br />
Jan 16 Youth International Party (Y.I.P.) founded<br />
- Country Joe & Fish, Fugs, Ginsberg, Arlo<br />
Guthrie, Abbie H<strong>of</strong>fman, Paul Krassner, Phil<br />
Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers &<br />
revolutionaries)<br />
Jan 18 Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House<br />
speaks out against <strong>the</strong> war<br />
Jan 22 B-52 carrying H-Bomb crashes in<br />
Greenland<br />
Jan 23 Pueblo seized by Korea<br />
Jan 24 [saw Ravi Shankar again xx]<br />
Jan 31<br />
Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive - (to Feb 24)<br />
70,000 Viet Cong troops attack 100 S.Viet cities<br />
"start <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> turnaround"<br />
+ picture <strong>of</strong> police chief shooting Viet Cong in<br />
head<br />
Feb 8 <strong>Planet</strong> Of The <strong>Ape</strong>s debuts in <strong>the</strong>atres<br />
Feb 9 Free Press headline: In <strong>the</strong> land <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
blind <strong>the</strong> one-eyed man is king<br />
Feb 16 Draft deferments for most grad students<br />
& all occupational deferments eliminated<br />
Feb 17 Second Tribal Stomp<br />
Feb Leary evicted from Millbrook house<br />
Feb 21 *Beatles to India to visit Maharishi (at<br />
Rishikesh on <strong>the</strong> Ganges)<br />
also <strong>the</strong>re: Mia Farrow, Donovan, Mike Love <strong>of</strong><br />
The Beach Boys;<br />
Ringo stays 10 days, Paul 9 weeks, John &<br />
George 3 months;<br />
"get <strong>of</strong>f drugs for <strong>the</strong> while and write <strong>the</strong> White<br />
Album"<br />
(& Maharishi Mahesh coming to US - when)<br />
Feb 29 RFK & Javits, New York's Senators,<br />
speak out<br />
when Morning Star Ranch busts -> Wheeler<br />
Ranch opened to settlers<br />
winter Bill Wheeler (28) opens nearby Sheep<br />
Ridge Ranch (Wheeler's Ranch) (320 acres) for<br />
people to live on <strong>the</strong> land<br />
Mar 2 RFK speech to Congress about Vietnam<br />
March 8 Fillmore East opens in New York City<br />
(to June 27, 1971)<br />
Mar 8-9 Warsaw student uprisings, March 11<br />
workers uprising<br />
March<br />
Hue bombed to rubble in "25 days <strong>of</strong> horror" to<br />
retake from VC / during "peace feelers" (including<br />
Mylai massacre March 16: 200 - 500 villagers<br />
killed)<br />
McCarthy's "Children's Crusade": thousands work<br />
on New Hampshire primary, calling on nearly<br />
every voter in <strong>the</strong> state<br />
Mar 12<br />
10,000 students go door to door in heavy snows;<br />
Eugene McCarthy wins 42% <strong>of</strong> New Hampshire<br />
vote, overtaking President Johnson, & causing<br />
RFK to "reconsider" on Vietnam<br />
(& LBJ not to run, sez Great Expectations p.113)<br />
Mar 16 RFK declares candidacy for Presidency<br />
Mar 19 President Johnson's advisors advise<br />
getting out <strong>of</strong> Vietnam war<br />
Mar 22 (first N.Y. YIP event)<br />
Mar 23 The Kaleidoscope Is Turning On -<br />
Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Buffalo<br />
Springfield<br />
(Sunset Strip: <strong>the</strong> Hullabaloo became <strong>the</strong><br />
Kaleidoscope in 1968, more emphasis on light<br />
shows, for people who were on acid. It finally<br />
folded and <strong>the</strong>n ["mid-October"] became <strong>the</strong><br />
Aquarius, which is where Hair had its big L.A. run)<br />
Olympic boycott<br />
Mar 31 LBJ announces decision not to run again
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