1969 - The Year Everthing Changed

For the fortieth anniversary of 1969, Rob Kirkpatrick takes a look back at a year whenAmerica witnessed many of the biggest landmarkachievements, cataclysmic episodes, andgeneration-defining events in recent history. 1969 was the year that saw Apollo 11land on the moon, the Cinderella stories of Joe Namath's Jets and the "Miracle Mets," the Harvard student strike and armed standoff atCornell, the People's Park riots, the first artificial heart transplant and first computer network connection, the Manson family murders and cryptic Zodiac Killer letters, the Woodstock music festival, Easy Rider, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, the Battle of HamburgerHill, the birth of punk music, the invasion of Led Zeppelin, the occupation of Alcatraz,deathat Altamont Speedway, and much more.