As we approach the recent past we begin to encounter an interesting phenomenon. At some point we will have lived through a period that historians...

As we approach the recent past we begin to encounter an interesting phenomenon. At some point we will have lived through a period that historians have discuss in textbook.  Select an event from the decades of the 1960s to 1980s (or later if you are much younger than I) that you lived through and paid attention to on a daily basis. How was experiencing it firsthand different from reading about it?