The history behind the song.

1949
Harry Truman
Doris Day
Red China
Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe DiMaggio
1950
Joe McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Studebaker
Television
North Korea
South Korea
Marilyn Monroe
1951
Rosenbergs
H-Bomb
Sugar Ray
Panmunjom
Brando
"The King and I"
"The Catcher in the Rye"
1952
Eisenhower
Vaccine
England's got a new queen
Marciano
Liberace
Santayana goodbye
1953
Josef Stalin
Malenkov
Nasser
Prokofiev
Rockefeller
Campanella
Communist Bloc
1954
Roy Cohn
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls
"Rock Around the Clock"
1955
Einstein
James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
"Davy Crockett"
"Peter Pan"
Elvis Presley
Disneyland
1956
Bardot
Budapest
Alabama
Krushchev
Princess Grace
"Peyton Place"
Trouble in the Suez
1957
Little Rock
Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Sputnik
Zhou En-Lai
"Bridge on the River Kwai"
1958
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
California Baseball
Starkwether homicides
Children of Thalidomide
1959
Buddy Holly
Ben Hur
Space Monkey
Mafia
Hula-hoops
Castro
Edsel is a no-go
1960
U2
Syngman Rhee
Payola
Kennedy
Chubby Checker
"Psycho"
Belgians in the Congo
1961
Hemingway
Eichmann
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan
Berlin
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1962
"Lawrence of Arabia"
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss
John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
1963
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
British politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
1965
Birth Control
Ho Chi Minh
1968
Richard Nixon back again
1969
Moonshot
Woodstock
1970
Watergate
Punk rock
1976
Palestine
Terror on the airline
1977
Begin
Reagan
1979
Ayatollah's in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan
1983
"Wheel of Fortune"
Sally Ride
Heavy Metal, suicide
Foreign Debts
Homeless Vets
AIDS
Crack
1984
Bernie Goetz
1988
Hypodermics on the shores
1989
China's under Martial Law
Rock and Roller cola wars

**Our Sixth Stanza to the Song**

Sources Used

[Created by Leslie, Akash and Dylan]

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