The Beatles make their first appearance on American television, from the New York studio of the Ed Sullivan Show. It immediately becomes a revolution in customs, a generational identity, a signal of epochal change. In the fall of 1964, the Free Speech Movement explodes in Berkeley and San Francisco. These months mark the beginning of the “long American ’68,” ushering in a “civil war over values” that will last for decades, well beyond the turn of the 21st century.
