Name: Flashback: The 1960 Winter Olympics
Duration: 309
Description: Revisit the feats of athleticism at the VIII Olympic Winter Games, held in California's Squaw Valley in February, 1960.

Revisit the feats of athleticism at the VIII Olympic Winter Games, held in California's Squaw Valley in February, 1960.

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Flashback: The 1960 Winter Olympics

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<p>The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, countercultural movements, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap."</p>


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