Historical Highlights of My Life from Birth to Age 21 (1952 to 1973) at the Museum of American History

1950s in Lifestyle and Culture

1952: Detonation of the 1st hydrogen bomb and my birth year.

Signs of Atomic Age Anxiety and Fear

On the Brink: The Cuban Missile Crisis

CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite announces the assassination of President John Kennedy

The Generation Gap and Flower Power for Peace 

The Return of Richard Nixon

1969: I graduate high school and begin college

1973: I graduate Villanova University, get married, 

and become a father