your arm. i see no need to resort to a whirling haymaker look he did when a 20 pound bag of dog food seems just as effective at laes on the ridiculist. see you at 11:00 p.m. the cnn original series "the seventies" starts now. thousands of women gathered as a symbolic torch marked the beginning of a national women's conference. >> we think there is going to be a struggle. we don't think men will give up their power and privilege easily. >> american women are the most privileged group of all time. they're still not satisfied. >> the equal rights amendment should be ratified. >> i love them enough to tell them the truth. >> a proving of sexual perversion what a disgrace. >> constitutional amendment appears on the way proclaiming women have all the same rights as that other sex.

there are a lot of women in this country who feel they're being pushed around. they have become very vocal. they call themselves the women's liberation movement. we have two representatives from the movement here tonight.

they're both writers. susan brown miller had a piece in the sunday times a couple weeks back, and sally kempton. >> every woman's lib star on this show, once with hugh hef n ner, that was exciting. >> what do men do wrong? >> they oppress us as women. they won't lealet us be. >> i am more in sympathy than perhaps the girls realize. >> women. women. yes, i'm 35. >> than the lady realize. i use girls referring to women of all ages. >> you should stop. >> they came on, i would say to gut hugh hefner. >> the day you are willing to come out with a cotton tail attached to your rear end. >> women had so much to talk about. bah the dialogue on so many of our issues was controlled by men. >> there are some of you who

reject men altogether. they won't sit in the same room with a man if they can avoid it. are you two of the ladies? >> we think there is a struggle. we don't think men will give up their power and privilege easily. off awe the women's movement, the sexual revolution, the gay liberation movement all had their origin before the '70s. the 7 . >> women's liberation one of a number of groups, who feel that women haven't yet won their rights. they don't constitute a majority of women but their numbers are growing. >> today all over this nation the women's liberation movement is marking the 50th anniversary of women gaining the vote by demonstrations and strikes. >> join us now! >> the national organization of women called a nationwide women's strike.

there were big posters, don't iron while the strike is hot. >> it followed up on all most a decade of protests and movements in american society. >> the strike has put our demands on the political agenda and they're there to stay and will be given priority. and it has given us our pore. the next step is from america, the world. >> it was a betty friedan -- >> a great tribute to her. >> spontaneously turned out to be the best thing ever. >> they have three demands according to the ladies organizing the strike. free child care centers running 24 hours a day. equal education. and employment. and free abortions on request. >> free abortions on request! >> it was a wonderful consciousness raising moment to demonstrate the seriousness, the rage, it was a revolutionary high, it was very moving. >> at the western white house

president nixon said we should all recognize that women have a wider role to play in this nation. but on the senate floor west virginia jennings randolph characterized women's lib as i quote him, a small band of braless bubble heads. >> you have to understand how backward we were on issues involving women's rights. and women couldn't sign a loan. they had to get their husband's approval. women weren't allowed in military academies. ridiculous. >> the point is to now, some of the women of the women's liberation organization, exist, and other women realize they're not alone. >> first step was consciousness raising. daring to articulate the problem. second step people begin to write about it. and then you have lawsuits. and then you eventually have legislation. >> in almost every congress since 1923 there has been proposed a constitutional amendment to guarantee equal rights for women. well today it finally within approval clearing the senate by

a vote of 84-8. the measure now goes to the states for ratification. >> the equal rights amendment says equal rights under the law shall not be abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex. >> male opponents in the senate called it the unisex amendment. it would destroy traditional man woman relationships, weaken family ties, increase homosexuality. >> the equal rights amendment passed because it was a very powerful congresswoman, martha griffins of michigan strongly in favor of that. secondly the republican party wasn't opposed to it. there wasn't a political opposition. it was, there was more cultural opposition. when the equal rights amendment was adopted it had a seven-year time frame for ratification. otherwise there would be no equal rights amendment. >> this amendment could have wide repercussions, affect the the military draft, a father's responsibility to support his children, sex crimes, and

protective labor legislation. >> i think the very term e.r.a. started opening of a look at everything. sort of ripping off the lid saying are there equal wages? are we getting equal admission into college? every issue started being looked at, all kind of under the banner of era. >> president nixon today signed into law a far reaching, 21 billion dollar education bill which will support educational projects from kindergarten to graduate school. >> title 9 is educational e quality. it says any educational institution that receives federal funding must provide a fully equal educational experience and educational opportunities to girls and women the same as for boys. and men. >> i used to ask myself why don't we have more women doctors and lawyers because i didn't realize we had gender quotas in our classrooms. so title 9 just blasted open the doors as far as opportunities, access, all the things that allow people to be the best they

can be. what was included in there that nobody thought was a huge deal going on the way in was sports. the idea that suddenly, little girls would grow up with the expectation that they were going to play little league, that they were going to be stars in their team, that, that they were maybe going to get a scholarship to college based on their skills. it was huge. >> people in this country seem to be saying that women because of their sex, ought not be prohibited from doing anything that men are allowed to do.

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many members of women's lib feel exploited by men and they startled wall street one day by an exhibition in which roles were reversed. >> look at the legs on that one. oh, i am so turned on. those pants they bring out your best. keep your best leg forward, sweetie. >> we're trying to point out what it feels like to be whistled at, put down. constantly sexually every time we walk down the street. we are supposed to think it's a compliment. >> when someone asked a woman in the 1970s, are you liberated? what they meant in general do you believe that individuals should be able to choose their own path in life it usually meant do you have sex? and often it meant will you have sex with me? >> what kind of relationship between the sexes do you add ve kate? is love out? is sex out? >> unless men change it is going

to be very soon. >> people seemed to conflate sexual revolution and women's liberation, because people tend to conflate sex and women and for people, re, men. >> what would it be look to have the initiation and consummation of a sexual contact so that now we can get down to the particulars of the evening, what would it be like after liberation ideally? i don't find it anywhere in the literature? >> why do you expect to find it anywhere in literature? >> i don't know what women are asking for. supposed i wanted to give it to them. >> the liberties they're asking for, honey, is not for you. [ applause ] >> i think if you didn't look at the women's movement favorably it would be very easy in fact you may be inclined to lump it with sexual revolution saying

the ajen days the say. it just makes women look unstructured, wonton running around looking for the next person to bed. but thoz tse two things are ver very different. >> we are too busy doing the work we have to do than to fight with the men who disagree with us and most of us believe sooner or later they'll come along with unanyway, because they won't have any choice. >> if women were going to have equal rights, if women were going to have an equal place in society one of the first things that was going to have to go was the double standard that women were supposed to be virgins, pure, chaste, when they got married but men were supposed to fool around and having lots of sexual experiences. >> 25 years ago most young women were expected to be virgins before they got married. if they were not, it was considered a stigma. now today, there has been a change which means what that many more young women are sleeping with some one before marriage? >> undoubtedly. >> how many more?

>> 120% more to be exact. >> in many ways women benefited from the sexual revolution there is just no doubt about that. the idea that it is okay for women to explore their sexual fantasies and ex-mrr their sexual desires. >> i think the sexual revolution had a place in making sex more casual so that people had more sexual partners and sex could have a purpose other than procreation or reproduction. >> oh, nice to see you. how are you? >> fine. how are you? >> there was a lot of sexual experimentation in the 1970s and one place that that experimentation took place was within marriage, trading partners, having group sex, and rethinking what has become in their mind a kind of rigid monogamy that killed pleasure. >> in southern california, a young couple were exploring with ideas about open marriage. and they created a retreat for

other people to come and explore those ideas as well. >> i wasn't sure if you wanted to be walking around without clothes on. >> that's funny. i felt the same way. >> you stored away your clothes and lived, morning, noon and night as a nudist. and people if they wished could indulge in intercourse together. >> a lot of people i haven't seen for a while. >> the idea of this place as espoused by john williamson and wife barbara was to try to eliminate jealousy and sexual possessiveness in marriage. they had a lofty notion of what they were doing. >> monogamy as we know it, marriage as we know it, the american family as we know it, it's not working. and it hasn't worked. >> barbara wanted women to have as many opportunities for sexual experience with other people

outside of their spouse as men did. this was going to be one of the tenets of the sandstone experience. equality of the sexes. >> i don't feel i am in love the way i used to be. [ indiscernible ] >> a lot of times i wanted to have a relationship with a woman but i felt like -- >> go ahead. >> i never believed her. >> i remember sitting here, this guy if they went to sandstone. she would look it. he would hate it. she was feel disempowered. she would feel empowered. >> i was around nice people because i didn't have the inhibiti inhibition. i left all the doors open. and having as many experiences as possible. [ indiscernible ] >> she said this is what i want. >> yeah. >> they learned so much about themselves, their partners, negotiating conflict, the power of sexuality, the problem was that there was something deeply

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the supreme court ruled today that if any one wants to read dirty books or look at dirty movies in his own home he may do so and none of the law's business. the case came from georgia where police charged a man with possessing pornographic. the law may regulate the spread of obscenity in public. but the court said the person has every right to satisfy intellectual emotional needs in the privacy of his own home. >> until then, pornography was something that was really under cover. pornography is obviously a loaded term. right. one person's erotica is another person's pornography. >> but in the late '50s and early '60s. supreme court kept narrowing further and further the definition of what is obscene. so by the late '60s you are seeing books, magazines, films,

that were pretty sexually explicit. people wondered are we headed for a downfall? >> just before the last election president johnson appointed a commission to look into the problem of pornography and impact on the american people. the republicans moved into the white house, but the commission went right on working. >> the presidential commission was a group of censors who believed the devil had penetrated too deeply into our society. >> the basic finding of the commission was that an analysis of all available studies shows no correlation between the availability of such sex oriented materials and the rate of sex crimes or sexual pathology. says the report, patrons of such places may be characterized as "predominantly white, middle-classed middle-aged married males dressed in business suits or neat casual attire." when johnson set up the commission he really was trying to produce a view that said pornography is bad. in studying the issue, they changed their view of pornography. and said, it's just not that big

a deal. >> some enterprising publisher may combine the 874 pages of the commission's report and the 59 pages of the dissenting report, put them on the market in paperback form. controversial as the reports are at the moment, that volume may sell. but it won't be nearly as spicy as the material readily available now from your friendly neighborhood adult bookstore. >> when you look back at the early '70s, you really do see a major cultural shift in terms of the availability of pornography. >> the cinematic subculture boils down to big business at the box office. according to adult film aassociate yags of america, 2.5 million people slip into dark, x-rated theaters, 20% of all movie-goers. >> the biggest film by all standards is "deep throat." >> "deep throat" was one of the hard core porn film that became a sensation, became a movie that people talked to their friends

and neighbors about going to see. >> they have already in albany, georgia, have boned the motion picture "carnal knowledge" as being obscene. if they think carnal knowledge is obscene in albany, georgia, wait until "deep throat" shows up. they'll heavy to hose them down with cracked ice. >> it is reviewed on local news shows. touchles were going to see it on date night. >> jacqueline onassis herself went. linda lovelace and harry reams in "deep throat" were celebrities. >> i would look to see, legitimate films and so-called pornographic films merged together. i think the two industries have to mrnlg together. >> do people walk up on the street and recognize you? >> people are afraid of me. >> this is the time when the sexual revolution went mainstream. you could go to the grocery store and buy sex advice in line at the checkout counter. you could buy a kind of knowingness or awareness about sex that was different than what was widely available in the

past. >> the real way that the sexual revolution filtered done to us was the reading materials we were discovering in our parent's houses including "the joy of sex." modern marriage manual. one of the things that made the book famous was its illustrations >> you found text accompanied by specific nude drawings of all manifestations of sexual acts and behavior and posturing. >> why did you write the book? >> well i think it is the first one based on the knowledge of 1974 rather than 1874. >> this book became amazingly successful in that it was accepted on the coffee tables of america -- american middle-class people. >> it gives people information they didn't have or they couldn't have got. what it does is to open up the subject to being something that can be talked about. >> sexual information is now being made available to the public which hadn't been before. one of those was masters and johns on did an enormous amount

of work explaining in excruciating detail to some how men and women's bodies functioned during sex. >> they have done suggestions of sensationalism about the book, what are your feelings about this? >> the hope in some part our work will contribute to a change in the attitude towards sexuality. >> they were painting a picture of women as strong and versatile as sexual creatures. that was not a popular idea before then. before the 1970s it wasn't uncommon not to know anything about sex going into your wedding night. not to understand the sexual process or understand your body at all. >> in those days asking doctors a question and of course a majority of doctors were men, it was very unusual to find a woman doctor. often what they said is "don't worry your pretty little head about it." to women. our bodies, ourselves grew out of the women's liberation movement. >> it was the first book that is

really by women for women about their bodies. >> if you combine that with the pill, you have a pretty potent mix of wow, i could really take charge of my life in this way. and they did. >> there were like two dialogues about sex in the country and the culture. there was idealized, monogamy, this is what we all think sex should be. and then there was an underground dialogue about what people were really doing, what people really wanted that was regarded as dangerous and subversive. that didn't come i think to fruition until the '70s. until you had this generation of people who were coming of age in this new reality of truth telling, birth control, and openly gay people in the world. >> i really make a distinction between sexual freedom and liberation. gay liberation is just one movement along with women's liberation in this whole process of sexual liberation. >> what's the solution?

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the national women's political convention will now come to order. [ applause ] >> this is the first national political assemblage of women to be held in 100 years. it is nonpartisan, nearly 1,000 women of all ages and all political persuasions are attending. >> we didn't really have time to organize. but women read it in the paper and, or they saw it on television, and they started their own caucuses and their own cities and their own states. >> we will, we must attack the most difficult issues. we might as well do it because they're going to call us all those names anyway. >> gloria steinem was a compelling figure who had a great way of translating

feminism to the mass marketplace. she and a bunch of her friends began "ms. magazine." >> all revolutions start with a typewriter and three crowded rooms over a bar in the new york headquarters of the magazine "ms." is no different a magazine as a forum for the women's movement. >> the movement itself comes out telling the truth about our lives. so it just makes sense to devote ourselves to thing that we just can't find any place else. >> when she got aggressiveness from men she handled it in a gracious team of way. she knew how to do the tango myth men. >> dealing with the fact that men are virtually controlled and dm na dominated by women from birth and puberty. why haven't you done a better job if you say you are as smart as you are? >> that's your statement, not mine. that men are controlled from birth on ward. if you take an intelligent person with normal hopes and ambitions and confine her to the

home of truth of her situation is she has no real power of her life outside her home. >> before gloria steinem wore auz twore -- there was a feeling that they were marginalized. it almost explodes on the national scene. >> women's tennis is in a way the ultimate in women's liberation. men watch billy jean king not to ogle her sexy legs. >> billie jean king was a pioneering figure in women's sports and a pioneer figure in culture. she was tough, she was smart and she won everything you love in an athlete. and man did she have guts. she didn't back away from anyone. >> american women are the most privileged group of all time in history and they're still not satisfied. we have to stop those women right now. >> basketbally riggs, a long time tennis star from decades

ago and a hustler. >> all i know is i want to keep the women barefoot, pregnant in the bedroom and in kitchen and taking care of the kids at home. >> he started challenging conpeopco women tennis players to matches. >> billi if, we can make so much money. bobby, i have so much work to do with the tour. i can't think straight. margaret court said yes. >> margaret court the number one ranked woman in the world at the time. >> i was just like pleading with her. it is going to be a circus. so get ready. she lost the match when he gave her roses and she curtsies. she lost the match before they hit the first ball. done. she played probably the worst tennis of her life. as soon as she lost, i knew i had to play. >> in the latest news on tennis and the war between the sexes it was announced to day believe it or not that bobby riggs, the old champ will play billie jean

king, the women's wimbledon winner for $100,000 prize. >> what a scene it is. the celebrities present. more than 30,000 people for an all-time record tennis audience anywhere in the world. here comes billie jean king. a very attractive young lady, if she ever let her hair grow done to her shoulders, took her glasses off, you'd have somebody vying for a hollywood screen test. >> when she was brought out,ened the guys carrying her, and waving, shend kn knew how to plm at his own game. >> there's bobby doing this thing. >> the whole thing was a circus. people taking sides. it was jokey. but an underlying current this is for real. >> first serve. >> bobby riggs, leading 3-2.

>> i was down 4-2 in the first set. everybody forgets that each of missed overhead. i never miss overheads. hardly ever. that was my moment of truth. i thought about what my life would be look if i lost. i thought what would it do for others if i won this match? i have all kinds of doubts. i was scared, i just had to win. for a title 9, everything. come on, you have got to do this. >> she's got him running. yes with a brilliant -- >> game, ms. king. >> beautiful shot. >> it is over.

[ indiscernible commentary ] >> something broke through that day, the men had to acknowledge that just by dint of being male you weren't always better. because billie jean king kicked his ass. >> mrs. king trounced riggs in three straight sets last night. it wasn't much of a contest. billy jean savored her victory at courtside and her fans across the country did the same. >> i like the fact that billy jean won. that the female won. >> the two men in my family left me alone with the match after we saw how it was going to go. and watched bonnie & clyde. but i loved every minute of it. d accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route. oh, and your boysenberyy apple scones smell about done. ahh, you're good.

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>> it is too bizarre, too twisted. excuse me, do you agree with the women's liberation movement? >> no. i don't. >> why not? >> i like my life the way it is. >> a woman's place is with a man on top of them in this world. >> a mess of housewives, grandmothers. mothers, who felt they were not only being left out of this but denigrated by it. that the movement was saying that their choices were stupid

and dumb. >> having a happy husband and happy children makes us happy. >> they had been celebrated having chose in to be a mom, wife and stay at home. now suddenly overnight people were saying that they're slaves, they're comparing them to prostitutes. and it made perfect sense to me that those women would get really ticked off and frightened and anybody who came along who was clever enough an manipulative enough to pick up their story and frighten them some more could do a whole lot of damage to the equal rights amendment. >> i would look to thank my husband fred for letting me come today. i love to say that because it irritates the women's libbers more than anything that i say. >> she became the voice of the opposition, of era, she was quite competent at it. >> she saw it as her mission to stop this, what she saws as an assault on american womanhood. >> i would look to begin by

asking you to state your principle objection to era. >> era went give women anything which they haven't already got or have a way of getting. but on the other hand it will take away from women some of the most important rights and benefits and exemptions we now have. i think the laws of our country have given a very wonderful status to the married woman. and the wife has a great deal of many rights. for example she has legal right to be supported by her husband. >> there is no law whatsoever in any state that requires a husband to support his wife. clearly true the equal rights amendment is going to be passed. >> are you going to let it pass? >> no, i don't think. more states have rejected it this year than have passed. we have gotten eight states vote to ratify it this year. we have 30 states. 14 states to reject it. >> they can't reject it. >> february can reject it, my goodness. >> she said you have a good deal, women, an exalted member of the human race, held to a highest standard.

put on a pedestal, protected by men. provided for by men. why would you want to give that up? it's a good deal. and a lot of people agreed with that logic. that equal rights was a scary thing. >> we do not want our lives to be run and our world changed by the militant women who are demanding what they call a gender-free society. >> this is a time of testing for the equal rights amendment. the ratification battle moves from one state legislature to another, supporters have found the amendment increasingly hard to put across. >> the biggest problem i having is distinguishing between abortion and the equal rights amendment. my area is conservative. >> do you believe those who vote for the era today will be voting for abortion? >> they went be voting for abortion, but what they well be doing is voting to deny to the state legislatures the power to regulate or top abortion. which you might say has the same effect. >> in a landmark ruling, the

supreme court today legalized abortions. the majority in cases from texas and georgia, said the decision to end a pregnancy during the first three months belongs to the woman and her doctor not the government. thus the anti-abortion laws of 46 states were rendered unconstitutional. >> roe v. wade accepted that a woman really cannot be ookabequ she doesn't have control over her reproductive abuilt team. simple as that. >> the newly liberalized abortion law brought immediate reacts. >> i think the judgment of the court will do a great deal to tear down the respect previously accorded human life in our culture. >> what's interesting about roe v. wade while it does legalize abortion it is really as much mobilizes the opposition. >> we protest today the holocaust of the 1970s in america. >> conservatives who didn't used to mess with politics that much, and they start to campaign. it was the rise of extreme

activist conservatism in america. >> certain conservatives don't know what to do with their frustration and with their yearning for the good old days. and decide the problem are gays. >> the battle over homosexual rights in dade county, florida comes to a vote there tuesday. the issue whether or not to repool a 4-month-old ordnance which prohibits discrimination against homosexuals. >> anita bryant, runner-up in 1959 is an entertainer and mother of four who says she wants to save her children from homosexual influences. she doesn't want gays teaching. she led the petition drive forcing the referendum. >> anita bryant was a singer and for quite a few americans sunny was a symbol of the beginning of pushing back against the social experiments of the decade.

>> i love homosexuals i love them enough to tell them the truth. because i know there is hope for the homosexuals if they're willing to turn from sin, the same as any individual, that they can be ex-homosexuals, an ex-murderer, an ex-thief, or ex-anybody. >> i feel strongly what we are faced with today is something that is being camouflaged under christian faith, christian love, that's one of the most vicious hate campaigns this country has ever seen. >> anita bryant's efforts mobilized the gay community. some times having a visual opponent is a great unifying force. >> tonight, the laws of god and the cultural values of man have been vindicated. >> they win the campaign, but it has a national resonance. >> this is what heterosexuals do, fellows. >> and for many gays, anita bryant is a symbol of this intractable prejudice.

>> we were going to go on a crusade across the nation and try to do away with the homosexuals and were met with protests and all kinds of problems. >> no. >> well at least it's a fruit pie. >> anita, why don't you >> nothing has done more to advance the cause of gay acceptance and rights than people like anita bryant. she campaigned for a vicious anti-gay law. >> as political parades go, it was a little unusual. harvey milk on his way to city hall to be sworn in as a supervisor in san francisco. >> i will fight to represent my con stitch wents.

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in the 1970s, there's enormous amount of change. it looks like you're going to get an equal rights amendment. gays are no longer considered to be ill. rowe v. wade legalizes abortion. there's just a sense that there's going to be more and more individual freedom. and then it stops. >> they were, for the most part, fundamental as southern baptists. supporting legislation to ban public fubds and to stop control over christian schools. >> e.r.a. got all tied up with rowv verse wade. now you're turning against the women's movemented. >> we have some beautiful women with us today who know they were

created the way god wanted them. i. >> i think when you study the era and what it really means, by public outcry, we will be e e e.r.a. >> thousands of women are gathered this houston today marked by the beginning of a national conference. >> this is going to be an attempt to push things forward.

>> support has been given by former first ladies ford and johnson and first lady rosyln carter. it is hoped that they will add appeal in the remaining three states that are needed. >> across town, there was an even bigger gathering. about 3,000 men and women opposed the believes to the women's conference. >> i'm very proud that they excluded me from that convention. and i'm here where we're not ashamed and not afraid to ask god's blessing on this crowd assembled here today. all of those in favor of the sexual preference revolution,

please rise. >> three first ladies avoiding a sexual perversion. what a disgrace. >> it came so very close. and the fact that it didn't pass says a lot about the power of the response. >> a lot of us thought we were going to renegotiate that individually. it was going to be open and honest and passed traditional gender roles. to a lot of people, women, on the offensive. it is the women who challenge the old hablits and laws and

prejudices. >> every little girl in america, when she's in grade school is already thinking a bt what she's going to be when she grows up. the whole idea that women can have jobs and careers and a sex life, a complete life that's the transformation that's never going to go backwards. >> i think it's a seismic shift. it's so deep and on going that we can't evenest mate it yet. the problem is we don't stand up and say hey, we're the folks that braught you this. we are the folks who brought you this. >> you have been very active as a spokesperson for the woman's movement. do you feel that now we're getting close to the 80s what you set out to do in the '670s. >> at least in the '70s. all the major issue, whether it's equal pay for equal work,

reproductive freedom. they all now have majority support. what can be more important than that. as we go on the air tonight, breaking news out of louisiana. there has been a shooting in a movie theater. lafayette louisiana is about 45 minutes west of the capital of louisiana, baton rouge. the grand theater on johnson street is on lockdown. police are tweeting that