by Paul Sann
In 1960 Francis Gary Powers' U-2 was shot down over Russia. In 1961 came the Bay of Pigs In 1962 a strangler terrorized Boston, Eleanor Roosevelt died and Richard Nixon said his first farewell. In 1963 JFK was killed. In 1964 Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney were murdered in Mississippi, Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death (as 38 neighbors ignored her screams) and there was the Gulf of Tonkin business in Vietnam. In 1965 Watts was burned and the Northeast blacked out. In 1966 Richard Speck murdered eight nurses in Chicago and a University of Texas sniper killed 16. In 1967 Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell was shot. In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. In 1969 Manson's followers struck. Paul Sann, editor of the New York Post in the '60s, has a sure taste for sensationalizing. Still, his photograph-filled book sets one thinking that the '70s have been comparatively swell. (Crown, $14.95)
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