I was in 7th grade that year. A young pubescent teen, asking myself "What kind of world is this?" Here we are, in 2024, and I still ask myself the same thing!

I don't know how or where you find these treasures, but I sure appreciate it!

Thanks for the flashback Fred. In May 1970 I was 9 years old and didn't really understand all that was going on, I almost wish I could say that now. 👍👍👍👍

Several months ago, I read a book about the Kent State shooting called 67 shots. The author of the book goes into detail about the type of rifle issued to national guardsmen on that day in May 1970, including how many bullets could be fired from it and the velocity and distance they could travel. The rifles the national guardsmen were given were the type of rifles used in World War II, and were not the state of the art rifle used during the Vietnam War. If they had been given those rifles, many more students would have died. After all the detailed investigations, it still wasn’t determined exactly who, if anyone ordered troops to open fire on the students.

I graduated 🎓 high school 14 May 1970 and 20 July i was in the Marine Corps. No more taking it easy.

I was 9 y.o. when the Kent State shootings happened. Wasn't exactly sure what it all meant, but, I knew it was something not good because for the first and last time ever, my Dad said "we need to say a prayer for those families." and we did at the dinner table.

What an unbelievable time that was...thank you Fred.

I was born Jan 7,72. I remember the feel of the seventies.

That young woman crouching over the shot Kent State student was only fourteen years old-I was horrified to learn that. I was fifteen.

Excellent time capsule scrapbook. Great, informative, appropriate clips all. Thanks Freddy. Love this series!

The music brings back so many memories! Thank you very much.

Another great time capsule. Thanks Mr. Fred!

The tragedy that took place at Kent State & those pictures of Spiro T. Agnew, not realizing how big a crook he turned out to be. Thanks, FredFlix. 😮

Another great trip back in time to my high school days and some fantastic memories. Thank you Fred. Your selection of events was great and the music 🎼 was the best of all time. 👍🏻❤️

Thanks Fred 😊

Sad how back then, the cases of MS were very rare, but after all the "research" in the past 60 or so years, the pnly thing they've discovered was a giant increase of MS in people instead of a decrease. Wonder why? Great video, great music, love Julie Andrews!

I was a junior in High School. Viet Nam was still raging. The tragedy at Kent State and me getting close to draft age. What times those were. Once again, Fred. Bravo.

Ty for the flashback..I was 2 when Kent State happened..I like George C. Scott as an actor and director!

This channel is so very AWESOME! THANX,Fred!👍💓🤗✌️

Great compilation. How the USA survived the great upheavals of the late 60s and the 1970s is remarkable. I hope your country can get through the political/ social upheavals still to come.

A bit of a curveball today Mr. FredFlix. I was so used to reviewing the most recent posting of the months of my middle school teen years and today with May, 1970, I'm back to being a 10-year old. But another great job, thanks for the wonderful memories.

I was 14yo and blissfully ignorant about almost everything. Was just starting to like popular music and cute girls. You know, I'm a pretty lucky to have been born when I was.

I thought the car commercial was hilarious! 😂 Thank u Fred!❤

It was a turbulent time and we often look back on those times as simpler and better. Simpler perhaps but not necessarily better. I guess it depends on one’s perspective. I will say the music was far better

It was the beginning of the end for our country, when our soldiers fired upon civilians. 🥺

Another great flashback in time. Kudos Fred 👍

Some powerful moments here. And done fun ones too. Thank you for the Wink ad. My family’s favorite soft drink in those days. And the always marvelous Lara Parker!

you do a great job, good music and memories of my 14 year old self. thank you

The kids that were shot were not even protesting. One girl was 100 yrds away. All lawsuits were dismissed. SMH.

When you lead off with “Marmalade”…you know it’s going to be another great video. I remember as a soon- to -be 13 year old, that this great nation of ours was fallible. Thanks for the wake up call,Fred.

My dad was wounded in Cambodia on May 5 1970. The day after The Kent State protests about the Americans going into Cambodia.

Totally cool Fred thank you so much

How many people remember Little River Marina on Lake Weiss Alabama back in those days? When it was just beginning ❤

Reflections of my Life in my top 5 favorite songs. I hope my mom heard it. I turned 7 that July and she died in October at 28. She looked like Marlo Thomas and Mary Tyler Moore . The hair. I have a few memories of her. Wish i had more. Her name was Billie.

All I hate about your flix, IS THE END! good work Fred, keep

Kent State happened the day after my 5th birthday. I remember nothing from it. Nothing good came from it either. The biggest event in my life that month in 1970 was my family moving into a new home. We moved from "Shack Town" (in Wayne, Michigan) to a fairly new home in Westland. Pop sure picked a good one. It was within walking distance to the elementary, junior high and high school. Yay (sarcasm). Frank McGee...his voice is so familiar to me. Good stuff Fred.

Great show Fred, thank uou. Boy did this bring back a great memory, my brother Duke and I attended scouts every Wed night. The night Beneath the Planet of the Apes premiered at our local theater, 4-5 of us went to see it together. I can still remember us gasping when that underground cult pulled off their face masks! 😮

I was curious about that Mississippi wrestling show and tried to see if I could recognize any of those three wrestlers, but I couldn't. It must've been some independent group, either the Calkin promotion or whatever, because the main promotion would've been Leroy McGuirk's group, which used better known wrestlers affiliated with the NWA. Oh well, the ramblings of a hopeless wrestling nerd...Bobbie Gentry left the music business behind and hasn't been heard from too often since. She was married to Jim Stafford for a bit, but they split up. I miss seeing her on TV. She was a stunner. Thanks for the special Fred!

Thanks Fred 👍

It was a perfect happy day.

I always look forward to your videos. keep up the good work

Thanks Fred, for another great video! It was a very good year, sort of.

I picked up the entire Let It Be session...90 plus CDs

American Woman and that Supergirl comic cover! Nice montage that strikes like lightning! The 70s has arrived indeed! Cool man…very groovy man!

No global warming and no mass extinctions. At twelve in 1970 every relative I knew was still alive. Now I talk to youtube..lol.

When Angelique appeared, I was afraid the Dream Curse had begun anew. 7:57 😅

One of your very best evocations of the past, Fred. Damn, I had forgotten what a babe Julie Sommars was. Agnew was Nixon's proxy for what he thought.

Nice music again, wink wink 😊

Sad to think that all this chaos on campuses started back then and has now gotten so out of control. We have learned nothing.

I was three years old. This was the beginning of when my parents would take me out of the room when the news would report on Vietnam because they were fearful that they would be disturbing images.

The photograph on the cover of Newsweek is etched in my memory. On a lighter note, the AC Delco "pleasurizers" seems like a sex toy.

OH yeah when are you going to start selling T-shirts? I'm looking forward to a Fred Flix T-shirt 😊

07:48 I wonder if this is where they got the idea for that Phil Hartman character on SNL.

This was not a great time it was, thank you, Fred.

I traveled out to AZ to go to school & a friend of mine & I stopped in at Kent State and he should me the bullet holes in the statuary. They bulldozed it all soon after

I was nearly 13 and yeah there was some bad stuff going on but there was a ton good stuff going on. I loved it.

One of your best "Specials" so far. Not all was cotton candy and unicorns though from a distance it may look so. 😶 At 9:46 Now, that date sounds *very* familiar! 🤔 Hey, and I really like the new opening. 💜🤟

The month I turned 5. 😅

I was born in May 1970

A friend of mine was killed in Nam a few days later.

The sixties ended at Kent State,,,,, now it’s a parking lot

bittersweet year : last Beatles album but 1st Black Sabbath

I live about 40 minutes south of Kent in Canton. I was in third grade when the shootings happened. At least we live in a country where we can publicly commemorate this tragedy, unlike China where any remembrance of the Tianamen Square massacre is suppressed.

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Wink,wink

I was nine.

Hilarious LIFE cover at 2:04: "Spiro Agnew Knows Best" - about corruption! 🤣🤡 An interesting time-capsule of tragedy and sheer LOUDNESS, ending with Agnes Moorehead soft-selling Coffeemate and Julie Andrews urging donations to an MS charity. Wild times, baby. Wild times.

5:44 Well, that Circus mag is certainly not from 1970. There was no Van Halen at that time, except at Muir HS. in Pasadena.

Unfortunately, that's a lot of the America I remember (not the America I want to remember), struggling my way through puberty and assassinations and Vietnam. No internet commenters, though, comparing it to our present times as a golden age -- we did have conservative editorial pages in most of the newspapers -- it was as dirty and mean as our present times. We just see it now through different eyes. I've done a bit of research, and I still can't figure out where Agnes Moorehead got that fake British accent. She was born and raised in America. It was a shock when I saw some of her acting away from Bewitched.

FOUR DEAD IN OH HI O.

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9:34 GP?

Kent state shouldnt of happened 😢😢😢

Nixon gambled with Cambodian lives, and millions lost!

Four Dead in Ohio

Oh no! Captain Kirk overacting in Civil War times?! Haha!

Fredflix,AMERICANA TIMECAPSULE.

Forget Road & Track. They sucked. And all the cool print that wasn't published in "Car & Driver" was sold to "Motor Trend".

I don't know how you use ANY music! I use 5 seconds of music and I get struck down.

Wasn't wink. Soda something like squirt soda...grapefruit flavored

tough year for sure. i gotta do some more research on the kent u deal. clip called them "violent" protests. it was bad enough to have to call out the gaurd and not just the local cops? they fixed bayonets? yeah i'm gonna have to check that out a bit more. i've only seen one full documentary on that tragedy and i think it was on pbs so i'm sure they left some important details. thanks again my man.