Friday, August 16, 2019
Woodstock
In 1969 as a newbie in television production I always pulled the shifts
those of experience did not have to work. Nights, holidays, weekends,
etc. However, in that year I watched a man walk on the moon live on 20
monitors and a month later, since I had to work, could not go to most
concerts and festivals. Every night it was my job to work the news. I
got to see Walter Cronkite cover every story. This is one I had no idea
would be such a lingering narrative to my time. I was 19 years old.
Today nobody knows how many people went to "Woodstock". Estimates are
450,000. But if you ask over one million claim to have been there.