The last of my August collection of "Class acts". This song and video neatly sums up so much that was disturbing to young people in the 1960s. We really did believe that the world could end with little more than a four minute warning. We looked at the US and saw the racism in Alabama, the hypocrasy of being able to fight (from 18) but not able to vote until 21.
Barry McGuire pick up this raw anger that many of us feel today.
But there is a positive. People concerned about injustice as teenagers go on to work to right that injustice, one of the reasons why I have spent my life in the labour and trades union movement.
As to whether we were on the "eve of destruction" I remember hearing a powerful sermon by Billy Graham at Earl's Court London in 1966. He did not believe that there would be a nuclear anialation. He couldn't see it as part of God's plan to destroy all that He had created.
