rt. Mofford (1998) states in his book, The Sixties, that the young generation of the sixties, which was against the values of fifties, considered the suburban houses as an imprisonment and did not want to live in an ethical and economic standardization. Therefore, they started to form a counterculture that wanted to rediscover the American spirit and oppose the limited vision of the authority and the institutions (Campbell, Kean 1997).
Some members of the counterculture stressed politics. They wanted to change the United States through political action. Many students initially tried to change colleges and universities, which they considered part of the bad system. The American students moved actively and directly against racial injustices, the threat of war, violations of individual rights of conscience and less frequently, against economic manipulation (Campbell, Kean 1997).
John F. Kennedy, the young and popular president of the sixties, also favored the peaceful viewpoints of the counterculture. His attitude towards the most dangerous crisis of the C
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