Before the Bomb
wednesday
february 1, 1971
vol 63 no 75
“In A Gada Da Vida“
Iron Butterfly
1968 —
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“The Horse/Na Na Hey Hey”
Cliff Nobles and Company / Steam
In the 1970s, nearly every American high school marching band played these two songs after winning a Friday night football game.
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In 1971 Gainesville, Football was, as always, a most important money-spending issue. February 3, the Alligator’s lead story was about the UF administration’s talk of removing Florida Field’s natural grass, and replacing it with a green-colored, oil-based, rubber goo.
The Incredible Pulp
by Alligator Staff Writer David Klein
september 9, 1979
for The St. Petersburg Times
Insurrection Day
thursday
october 6, 1971
vol 65 no 75
Independence Day
thursday
february 1, 1973
vol 65 no 75
50 YEARS LATER (2022)
The Tallahasse Democrat talked to two lead characters in The Independent Florida Alligator’s fight for both First Amendment and Abortion rights. Ron Sachs and Jean Chance explained, from their perspective, the circumstances of the day (1971) and pondered the implications of the right-wing Christian Nationalists making it a crime again for a woman to exercise her right to choose an abortion rather than birth.
Independent Storm Rising
O’CONNELL (UNEXPECTED RESIGNATION)
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL (WHO WAS HE?)
IMPEACHED AND DEFIANT (NIXON WON’T LEAVE)
NAUGHTY OR NICE (WATERGATE CHRISTMAS)
1973: A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER (TO REMEMBER OR MOURN?)
THE GAINESVILLE 8 (HOMEGROWN MILITANTS)
STORM IS RISING (THE END IS NEAR)
NIXON BURNING (PROTEST SCREAMING)
SAY GOODBYE DICK (RESIGNATION FINALLY)
1970 — Friendly Fire
Kent State (Vietnam Goes to College)
1971 — Insurrection Day
Apollo 14 / Moon Tree
1972 — Gainesville Rising
Gainesville Rising
GAINESVILLE SCREAMING
George Wallace (Let’s Not Stay Together)
1973 — Independence Day
O’Connell Resigns
Who was Stephen C. O’Connell?
Nixon Won’t Leave
Naughty or Nice (Watergate Christmas List)
A Year to Remember and Mourn
1974 — GoodBye Dick
Homecoming 1974 Mix
The Gainesville 8
Storm Is Rising
Nixon No More
Nixon Resigns
1975 — Living in Sin
1976 —
1977 —
1978 —
1979 — Looking Back Before Forward
1980 — Miracles, Miami, and Murder
1981 — MTV and NASA’s Return to Space
1982 — Saturday In The Park (NYC)
Shelter from the Nuclear Storm (DC)
1983 — Going Back to New York City