Hoped They'd Die Before They Got Old

Why Boomers and their descendants struggle with mortality

Image courtesy of Busy Beaver Button Museum

I was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter [in November, 1964] and he was making me very angry… I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don’t trust anybody over 30. It was a way of telling the guy to back off, that nobody was pulling our strings.

It went from journalist to journalist, then leade…