The Clockwork

1. JFK - President of the U.S., youngest president, portrayed the "ideal american family"

2. RFK- Attorney General, JFK's brother

3. Malcolm X - Civil Rights Leader (black power, black panthers), violent methods of peace

4. Linden B. Johnson - Vice President/ President after JFK's assassination

5. Fidel Castro - Dictator of Cuba

6. MLK - Civil Rights Leader (anti-violence, protests)

7. Nikita Krushev - Soviet Union Leader

8. Ho Chi Minh - President of North Vietnam

9. Che Guevara - Major figure of Cuban Revolution

10. Earl Warren - Chief Justice of the U.S.

11. Abbie Hoffman- Leader of the Haight-Ashbury District

12. John Lennon- Beatles lead singer, and cultural movement leader

13. Betty Friedan - Woman's rights activist, author of The Feminine Mystique

14. William F. Buckley - Conservative Author

15. Orson Wells- Director, Author, and Accomplished Artist

These influential people of the sixties shaped the way the era was transformed - they were the clockwork. "A mechanism of geared wheels driven by a wound spring." The wound spring was the energy of the 1960's and the geared wheels were the people.