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