In many ways, the year 1959 presaged the end of an age of innocence. It was the year several U.S. servicemen were killed in a guerilla attack, signaling the first deaths of the Vietnam War; G.D. Searle sought governmental approval for the birth control pill; Grove Press won permission to publish D.H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterly’s Lover; and Jack Kilby invented the revolutionizing microchip. The year also marked the end of innocence for Earl Fogler, CP.
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