This Week In '66 - Hicks vs. Hippies

 

With Lynn Peril

Andy Warhol’s Uptight and more missing nuclear materials were in the news This Week in 66, along with a custody battle that the media posited as a fight between “the hicks and the hippies.” Rather than turn over their seven-year-old grandson, Mark Painter, to his father, after the tragic deaths of Mark’s mother and sister in a car accident, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Bannister appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court. The court’s decision was a lulu, and suggested that Mark’s mildly nonconformist California-based dad was “too Bohemian” to properly raise his son.

SHOW NOTES

“2 Found, 2 Still Missing, Atomic Vials Lost Off Train,” San Francisco Examiner, February 11, 1966, 1. 

Andy Warhol’s Up-tight

“Bothell Beatle Loses Round in Court,” The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), February 26, 1966, 9. 

Crowther, Bosley, “The Screen: Andy Warhol’s ‘More Milk Yvette’ Bows,” New York Times, February 9, 1966, 32. 

“Hairdo Ruling Undone,” San Francisco Examiner, February 11, 1966, 1. 

“Forced Haircut Kills Boy,” San Francisco Examiner, February 11, 1966, 1. 

Lewis, Flora, “An Anguished Tug of War for a Boy,” The Charlotte Observer, April 17, 1966, 1. 

Murphy, George, “He Gains Support, Furor Over Dad’s Battle for Son,” San Francisco Examiner, February 13, 1966, 1. 

“Peace Group Marches at White House,” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1966, 22. 

Sharpe, Ivan, “A Second Look / The Family Affair That Made Headlines Nationwide,” The San Francisco Examiner, June 23, 1980, 1.