in them, that they can meet this moment but it will be their fight. (uplifting music) (music tones) - [reporter] generation x, the generation after the affluent, socially-conscious baby boomers, is ♪ >> generation x, the generation after the affluent socially conscious baby boomers, the lost generation it is called. >> i am generation x. >> i am generation x. boldly.

probably. >> if i had a dollar for every time someone has told me i sound like dharia, we could buy a closet full of doc martens. >> gen x was the first thing you think of. >> latchkey kids. the children of working parents, single parents, who leave school and go straight home to a empty house. >> it was like being one of the goonies. bicycle and no rules. >> we were out playing with dangerous things and causing trouble out on the alleys with my friends. >> i cannot fathom that is how we were raised. >> out there for hours and hours and hours. >> gen x is the jan brady of generations. >> marsha, marsha, marsha. >> think of us as a shadow generation. >> overshadowed by the boomers and the generation that came after, the millennial's. >> it had been made clear to us

that the great music and great everything had already happened. >> there's that boomer arrogance that everything they did was the coolest. i mean, who would want to be a hippie? >> we were the first generations to really adopt technology in ways that change the very fabric of our nation. >> the idea that there is something you're probably overqualified for. >> i worked at a pizza restaurant at the mall. >> the generation narrative was that we were lazy, entitled, slackers. >> it was the last generation of just anti-commercialism. >> selling out was just a huge thing. >> we hated labels. we hated names. >> just meaningless. >> these things are attributed to generations to sell things. >> that is the thing.

x. we don't ever get to describe things. everyone does that for us. >> everybody is going to hate this. >> generation x, the smallest generation, the middle kids, the 65 million americans born between 1965 and 1980. our parents let us pretty much roam free while they were splitting up at the highest rate ever. >> one in every two marriages these days ends in divorce. >> and entering the workforce in record numbers, making more money than most of them had ever seen. we had no great war to fight, but we watch one live on tv. we saw our icons die and witnessed what we felt was the end of history. we were told america was the greatest nation on earth. we believe it.

we took a bite out of crime. and just said no. they told us sex was going to kill us. didn't seem to stop us though. we hung out in malls, arcades, sometimes just parking lots. we smoked indoors. stretch state 30 foot phone cord to the house for a little privacy. we slept on waterbeds, played with rubik's cubes. we had the greatest coming-of- age movies. albums. remember those? mix tapes with handmade labels. we made coffee cool and we have the best name. came from a novel. that is so gen x. >> in 1989, i was living in palm springs, california, where the book was set. it is important to remember the '90s did not exist yet.

there was no grunge. there was no nothing. and there was no collective awareness of anything beyond boomers at this point and who are these people who don't feel like they are a part of the boomer experience and don't feel like a part of anything else. okay. i decided to write the book on gen x. >> what is a defining characteristic of this age group? >> people are realizing we are part of something. maybe our voices do count for something. >> what you think about generation x? >> i mean, in my mind, i am the hip-hop generation. this is the hip-hop generation. >> in the '70s, the bronx was burning. it was like vietnam had come to new york. death. destruction. darkness. and despair. so these young boys and girls in the bronx said we have got a idea. >> dj cool hero.

have a party. everybody be there. >> dj cool hurt is a pioneer of hip-hop. he comes from jamaica and brings sound system music to the bronx. >> one of the first people to create extended instrumental interludes where is just a beat treating the turntable as its own musical instrument which then involved into sampling, remixing, and scratching. >> we went to the junkyard staking high-five stereos. people were building their own sound systems. but, when the blackout happened -- >> looters, mainly young people, ransacked hundreds of stores. >> we woke up the next morning. everybody had a new sound systems. we looted for stuff that we needed, and one of the things we needed to do was due this music thing. that is when hip-hop came out the womb. >> ♪ ♪ the hip the hop the hip hip hop to the rhythm of

the beat. >> and suddenly you have rappers delight. it was amazing. >> i still know all the words. my name is wunder mike and i would like to say hello to the black in the bright the red and the brown, the. and the yellow. >> they hated rap music. the pop station thought it was novelty and they thought it would be it, but it was just the beginning. >> let's get our hands together for mr. kurtis blow. >> kurtis blow was one of the first mainstream hip-hop acts. for an emcee to do that is monumental. >> and then this message came out. >> ms. comiskey goes to the edge i am trying not to lose my

head. >> all the trauma of the '50s and 60s were now being utilized by this new generation. >> ♪ ♪ it is like a jungle sometimes. it makes me wonder how people keep from going under. people are going to talk about these situations. >> yeah! >> the next evolution in that was planet rock. it was visionary. there is a place called planet rock where everybody is eating, nobody is fighting, we are educating ourselves. >> really worked hard to turn what was becoming a pretty troubling gang culture into a culture of battle that was symbolic. you could have a graffiti battle. you could have a rhyme battle. you could have dj battles. you could have a break-dance battle. >> break dancing was a

mainstream dance craze. michael jackson was trying to integrate break dancing into his stuff. popularized breaking in a way that made it the thing to do. >> it was the physical release that the music and the poetry gave us. break dancing with us, becoming planet rock. if we put the work in, it can be better. that is why randy mc came along. >> he is the mc! >> we talked the message and we took planet rock. >> and we put it together. >> people coming and people born to die. it was a struggle or they could have learned the trade. he was not pointing fingers.

he was giving alternatives. >> walk this way is considered the pivotal song that really introduces middle america, i.e., white america to hip-hop. >> ♪ ♪ rock this way! >> if you are black like me, sitting at home watching mtv, you were just waiting hoping to see that one michael jackson video, that one prints video, maybe whitney houston. in between that you had to watch a whole lot of tears for fear and durand durand. good music, but it just shows the lack of black music being played on that network until -- >> yellow. jo. yellow. jo. >> it is the first time that the biggest youth video channel takes a consistent look at hip-

hop. this culture now has a weekly national platform. >> instead adjusting a video, mtv raps was an introduction of the people behind this culture, this generation. as humans. >> rap was not going to be ignored by the mainstream anymore. >> hey, yo. what's up? >> the jungle brothers. >> but let's not forget queen latifah, emcee light, big daddy kane, the beastie boys, ll cool j. dougie fresh. slick rick. it was an embarrassment of riches. >> and when you think of all these groups coming out in less than a 10 year period, it is really the golden era of hip- hop. >> we are the generation that

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>> reagan makes americans feel this is still the greatest nation on earth. and hollywood went promoting this mainstream very conservative picture of america. >> we get some of the more right-wing films. "red dawn." where the russians parachute into that school. >> not bad for a bunch of kids. >> you look at "rocky 4." it cannot be any more cartoonish and america ate it up with a spoon. >> rambo. >> rambo is like the libertarian pro-american wet dream. >> and, now, the nightclub business. >> america is going to stand strong where it stands now. >> old-fashioned patriotism is back in style.

>> t minus seven minutes in counting. >> if you were a kid in the '80s, you love the space program. what kid did not dream of going to space? i know i didn't. the closest we came was seeing one of our teachers get a ticket on the space shuttle challenger. >> the astronauts on the challenger mission represented a beautiful portrait of america that was diverse and celebratory of us as a pluralistic society. >> seven. six. five. >> at schools across america, we watched the launch live. >> lift off. lift off of the 21st space shuttle mission and it is cleared the tower. >> barely a minute into the launch our childhoods were about to change. >> i was in daytona beach just up the road from the kennedy space center and we went

outside and watched. >> engines, watching normally. >> going up in florida, we were close enough that we could stand from the top of our cars and watch the launch. >> i was in the conference room, watching it on the screen like everyone else. >> so i am watching "the price is right" on a snow day. even as a kid, your stomach tenses up. >> we have jesse the launch of the space shuttle challenger. there has been a major problem. >> about 73 seconds into flight -- >> 2900 feet. >> we saw what looked like an explosion, but we couldn't really tell. >> it happen before noon. a slow-motion horror for all that watched. >> nothing was continuing to space. i knew that something wasn't right. >> for mission control, silence. >> and everyone is very reluctant to say it has blown

up. >> obviously a major malfunction. >> but it had blown up. >> i remember the challenger blowup like it was yesterday. and i remember watching it again and again and again on the news that night because the whole country was rooting for this great success and then to look up and see it all turned to smoke like that. that was a moment that defined generation x. >> i want to say something to this to this of exp ration and discovery. the school children of america who were watching. i know it is hard to understand but sometimes painful things like this happen. it is all part of the process of exploration and discovery. the future does not belong to the fainthearted. it belongs to the brave. >> for many of us, this was the first national tragedy we experienced and the first time the president spoke directly to us. a year later, he spoke to the

world. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> the '80s were about to become the 90s. we cannot believe our eyes. the cold war just ended practically overnight. >> the berlin wall is still standing, but it's significance as a barrier to freedom has crumbled. following the dramatic position by eastern leaders to lift travel restrictions to the west. >> there was a disbelief it was actually happening. really? they are abandoning communism. they are dissolving the soviet union. and suddenly people talk cameras to the wall and nobody fired a gun or anything like that. >> what you are watching live on television is a historic moment. you are seeing the destruction of the berlin wall, the line dividing east and west germany.

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microcircuits. >> gen xer the first generation to really see that rapid iteration of technology becomes smaller but more personal, more ubiquitous. >> it is funny thinking about what is available to us and what we take for granted and what you can do on a phone, but when the walking came out, it was unreal. >> the vcrs opened up a whole world of possibilities to me. the first time watching a jackie chan movie was on a vcr. >> and remember the handheld tvs? all that stuff seemed like it was from the crazy future. >> gen x was the first generation where you can be like the apple person. this technology brand can be your personality. >> we were the gadget heads. we were always ready for the next thing. >> when you think about the technologies that our generation got to experience, cable tv, satellite tv, dvds,

laser disks, home computers, camcorders, cell phones as big as your head -- it felt like growing up in the not too distant future but all those inventions were just variations on tech that our parents already had. there was one technology though that was all hours. >> how do you do that? >> for climbing ladders, you go up. >> as a little kid, the thing that got me going outside the house when there were no cultural, racial, or segregation boundaries was a local candy store with the arcade. >> the arcade was a whole experience, man. it is literally like a "fast times at ridgemont high" scene. literally, you roll out and pot smoke. it is just bleep, bleep, blipp,

blipp. >> while other people are addicted to heroin, i was addicted to pacman and space invaders. >> those arcade cabinets. the primary goal was to rob you of your quarters. >> the first video game i ever played was called pong, and then came asteroids and then pac-man took it over the edge. >> pac-man fever has invaded the shore haven nursing home, and the competition is fierce. >> it was the first video game to jump off the screen and into american culture. it was so big. >> ladies and gentlemen, buckner and garcia. >> they wrote a song about it. >> got that pac-man fever. pac-man fever. it is driving me crazy. >> being good at video games

was part of the social currency of the moment. >> dave scored 15 million points . plate 31 hours on one quarter. >> little evan was a shy, quiet nerd. you just have to take it. you can tease people before and after, but not doering. >> video games were everywhere. we went from justin arcades to >> do not just watch television tonight. play it! >> they were constantly part of our lives. >> home video games. by christmas there should be close to 200 if all the manufacturers come through as promised. >> atari released a counsel called the atari 2600. we had one at my house and i feel like we arrived. >> the pictures look more real. the speed, the action, the sound effects are much more realistic.

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but, pretty quickly, it actually got pretty good. pretty fast. >> when the '80s began, it still felt like the '70s. crime was bad. the economy sucks. wall street, nobody went there. it was dead. and then it woke up. >> wall street went through the roof today. >> it is being called the great stampede of 1982. >> everything about the reputation of wall street changed in the '1980s. >> we are going to turn the bull loose. >> before the '80s, wall street was for monopoly men, men in top hats, and suddenly entered the guys. >> i will pay nine. >> the market began going up.

>> mergers and corporate takeovers are driving the stock and bond market making it possible for all those young people to make so much money. >> is money the number one goal? >> yes. >> and the money started enabling this yuppie lifestyle. >> the whiz kids of wall street. many, barely out of college. >> a yuppie was a young urban professional. people age 25 who were clean scrubbed. had a lot of money. everybody wanted to be one. no one wanted to be called one. >> there was this smugness. we could be just like the greatest generation and have all the benefits without being great. >> they do not mind drinking and they certainly did not mind a little cocaine. >> cocaine, it seemed like the drug with no consequence. like, can you have too much caviar? can you have too much money?

can you have too many ferraris? how can cocaine be bad for you? >> mistakes are measured in millions and so is success. that has got students clamming for a one-way ticket to wall street. >> gen x college students were much more likely than boomers to major in business. so many of them majored in business that those numbers have not been equaled since. >> you might think that everyone in this country is rich and dripping with jules. >> you can jesse at. musicians who were all the sudden music video showing off money in ways we never saw before. >> welcome to "lifestyles of the rich and famous." and you have a stretch the scene. the scene. >> that is how people start to measure their own self-worth. money as a scorecard for life became a thing. >> betty wants to remain

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cities. >> the frontline of the war on drugs was los angeles. >> gang activity got connected with international drug trafficking. that produced a lot of danger. a lot of crime. also, a lot of entrapment for young people. prisons grew everywhere as a period of mass incarceration. >> we are going to continue that were until it is finished. >> can i, for the third weekend in a row, saturated the streets of south- central los angeles. tonight's crackdown along with the use of the controversial battering ram is a show of unprecedented force here. >> the l apd was brutal. we were teenagers and we will get up. the tension in l.a. from the way they treated angelenos, particularly black and brown angelenos, it was horrific. >> critics contend that sweeps

for gang members often border on harassment. >> the cops used to follow me home. my wife is a different race. they pulled me over thinking i was a hemp a hemp pimp. >> knees up. hands down. >> they would just mess with you like that. >> another explosive case involving flight police officers and a black motorist. some are calling it evidence of racially motivated police brutality. >> the first time i saw the rodney king video, it felt surreal. like, i heard about cops acting out. right? but see it in such an intensely egregious incident, it was scarring. you know? >> you could watch these cops beating a man on all fours. >> many cops and this man is

putting up no fight. >> in black communities, this is going on all time. we were like, somebody finally got it on tape. now that they see it on video, they have to believe us. >> all 15 of those men should be prosecuted immediately. all 15. >> today marks the seventh day of deliberations in the trial of four los angeles policeman charged with beating motorist rodney king. >> the accused were not the only ones to, weight. the courthouse attracting growing crowds of the curious. like him out today? >> i think they have been through a very traumatic 14 months or so. >> it is a 29th day of april, 1982, signed by the foreman. we the jury, in the above entitled action, find the defendants not guilty of the crime of accessory. >> we realized that it was not

that they didn't know. it was that they didn't care. >> justice is for other men. not for the brother men. >> the promises we were told about life getting better after the civil rights movement, that promise was broken. it was just a sandwich that we were handed as a generation. >> we were all just talking to each other. what is going to happen. what is going to happen. first, you hear sirens. all the sirens. a helicopter above. the intersection of north and normandy. >> all right. like, batten down the hatches. this is going to blow. >> a lot of people went down and started watching and looting. >> you had better go somewhere safe. >> there is another driver badly beaten. the driver's only mistake was entering this area.

he has been kicked in the head. this is attempted murder. south-central los angeles. we are seeing a dark day here in los angeles. >> i remember we got an announcement on the plane we cannot fly over south-central because people are shooting at planes. >> lapd. they are very, very hard on the people of los angeles. not today. let's light it up. i stood watching this wave of destruction come up the street. >> los angeles set itself on fire in outrage. my neighbors were playing public enemy, burn hollywood, burn. >> he was like, look at these stupid mama they are out here burning up their own neighborhood. >> that is right! what are you all doing?

>> society cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. >> this society has no commitment to us. why should we have a commitment to it? >> 20 years down the drain. i mean, can't people realize what they are doing is wrong? this is not the way to overcome racism. >> people, i just want to say, you know, can we all get along? >> up to 4000 national guardsmen were on duty across the city to aid the civilian authorities. >> the rodney king incident and the ensuing protests, these were a real cultural watershed moment for my generation. it felt like a real loss of innocence for us. >> rodney king for us was the concept of black lives should matter. black lives don't matter. how do we know?

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>> i had experienced it but i did not know what to call it. >> anita hill was the first woman i saw standing up for herself. the first time i realized, oh, wait a minute, it is wrong to be sexually harassed. >> you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> i due. >> before clarence thomas, most of us had never watched a supreme court confirmation. but this one was more scandalous than a soap opera. it felt more like a super bowl. >> i declined the invitation to go out socially with him. to my regret, in the following few weeks he continued to ask me out. >> i remember just being absolutely mortified. >> he also spoke to the pleasures he had given to women with oral sex. >> there was not a woman and that newsroom who is not nodding along in agreement and agreeing with everything she's

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>> even in punk rock circles which are very progressive and forward thinking, they are all very male-oriented bands. riot grrl is at the forefront of it. >> part of what really shaped me as a young woman, being like a baby xer, was being surrounded by these powerful women as my role models. >> there are these powerful artists that come along. then you get alana morissette. this cute little girl from canada is thinking about the same stuff that bikini kill is thinking about . >> i am here to remind you about the mess that you left when you ran away. >> women weren't like, oh, my

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>> and then the power gets pulled out of it. >> what is up with this girl power thing? >> i can chop it off when i want. all right. relax. relax. relax. relax. relax. re lax. when they're trying to express their truth. it's not just women. >> i am l very disturbed by wha is happening throughout the culture when people are trying to express their truth. it is not just women. all the ways in which the culture is devaluing >> a lot of us decided that we needed to get involved. we needed to fight for rights. we needed to fight toxic masculinity we needed to fight patriarchy. feminism is intersectional.

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>> there problematic, yes. >> certain social conventions will change. some things that are funny in 1980 are not funny now. >> what he did get right, he always depicted the young people as having all the answers and it was the adults that were lost. it was going to be us that were going to change the world. >> when i was making slackers starting in 89, i was sure it would not work on my terms but i just didn't have any faith that the world would either understand or connect to it at all. i was just making a film from my own backyard with my friends in the energy around me. >> you've got a day in the life of just austins weirdos. >> you remember those dreams that are just completely real? i mean they are so vivid it's like completely real. >> i remember going into the

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and this becomes like the major touchstone for gen x, authenticity. >> in the 90s the thing that always blows me away is how i can spend an entire day doing absolutely nothing. i think that is what explains the appeal of the hangout movie. >> it's friday, you ain't got no job and you ain't got to do. >> it was young people smoking, drinking coffee, and doing nothing. >> you just get these characters in a situation and then hang out with them. in prior records. you are literally just spending a day in the record store. whatever they are trying to do is not the important thing. >> hollywood was eager to define the next generation of adults who more than anything, did not want to be defined, and that is -- >> he will turn this place into a den of slack. >> you get reality bites.

it is a studio film, but kind of feels like an indie movie, talking about not selling out while trying also not to sell out, labeling a generation that despised being labeled. >> define irony. >> irony. >> reality bites was put to us as a representation of us. >> the assignment was to write a movie about [ inaudible ] is at 20-year-old. the premise is basically what happens after college but before you have a family of your own, so your friends are kind of your family. >> this is just a story of some regular people that exist right now. people can call it generation x but i don't think that generation knows enough about itself or has been around long enough to be anything. >> i am really in love with you. is that what you want here? >> if we seem withdrawn emotionally, i think it is because we just trusted

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class and i will not permit her to be in this class with him. >> he became a symbol of the expanding pandemic around hiv and the expanding epidemic of hate and fear. >> if you sneeze or anything kids can get it. >> i don't want her to be around ryan. >> because i am , my mother told me you know, you should stay in l.a. because i don't want you around the grandkids, you know, and she loves me. >> people in usa diving is to have team meetings that i wasn't invited to because they had to figure out who is going to room with the >> my uncle had a.i.d.s. in the south, like that conversation was never had, and he passed away when i was 11. my dad actually was the only one who ended up with the

family going to his funeral. >> if somebody came over to their house that was hiv- positive people would say oh no, you can't come in here, you know, and if they found out after you went to the bathroom oh my god, everybody get out of the house. that's how naove and stupid we were. >> no matter what people say about you, you still have to stand up for what you know is right. >> ryan white helped us realize that we didn't need to be afraid of hiv-positive people in that a.i.d.s. is not just a disease that affected men, but men were the hardest hit, and more were dying every day. >> anybody who knew one person who died in that period of mass death knew many people. i still have a book in which i would inscribe the names of those who had died so that they would not be forgotten. >> it took a while before the queer community in the country worked up the nerve to launch a national movement. >> playwright larry kramer founded act up. good morning, mr. kramer. how would you define the objectives of act up?

>> we want to end the a.i.d.s. epidemic. >> larry kramer gives a speech at the gay and lesbian center and tells them to stand up and he says that's how many of you are going to be dead if we don't take to the streets. two weeks after that you turn on the tv and there is the demo. they were blocking traffic, over 100 people arrested and it was like oh, that's power. the new activism started. we put on a show. we had all this creativity. i mean, look at broadway. the visuals are going to be tight. we are going to have our chance ready. but kramer was right. if we did nothing they were going to let us all die so or get off the pot. >> nearly 1000 a.i.d.s. activists converged with a noisy demonstration at the institute of health in bethesda , maryland. >> sure enough they came to the campus and really demonstrated

in a very theatrical way. i was looking out from the window over down at the bottom and peter decided he wanted to do something to really call attention so we jumped on the overriding canopy at the entrance so i ran down immediately from my office. by the time i got there, he was already in handcuffs and i ran up and he said tony, i did it, i got arrested. i told you i would. and it worked. >> act up forced the government to pay attention. the drugs got cheaper, the treatments got better, and if there was anyone still in denial , that was about to end. >> here comes magic johnson toward the podium. >> magic johnson is the biggest star of the nba in 1991. he is at the apex of american sports. >> because of the hiv virus that i have attained, i will

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who grew up in the 1950s was terrified of bill clinton. he thought he was a dissolute hippie. he was the apotheosis of baby boomers as the kind of people who skipped vietnam. >> charges about draft dodging a hunting bill clinton once again. >> didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried again. >> i was [ inaudible ] for 12 years. >> governor clinton's private life has become the overriding issue in the democratic presidential campaign. >> your categorically denying that you ever had an affair with gennifer flowers? >> i said that before. >> hillery went on television to defend him but also really wanted to make the point that she wasn't just conservative old-fashioned standby your manager the cost kind of woman. >> i'm sitting here because i love him and i respect him and i honor what he has been thrown what we have been through together and you know, if

that's not enough for people than heck, don't vote for him. >> not shown during the interview, the lights crashed down, and bill instinctively moved to protect hillery. they did stand by each other, in fact, to win, clinton was going to have to run up the score with my generation. >> realize there are 26 million people between the ages of 18 to 24. 26 million people. >> most of us were voting for the first time, so we were up for grabs so he came to us. >> bill clinton added some unconventional campaigning through his tuesday appearances. the arkansas governor did aggress shot on the arsenio hall show complete with blues brothers sunglasses, flower tie and saxophone. >> he went on tv and he played the saxophone. he was handsome, he was

charming. he had a twinkle in his eye. a lot of young people thought he was cool. he was electrifying. he spoke in a language that we would understand and he did it in spaces where those young eyes were, like tv. >> joining us is arkansas governor bill clinton. welcome. >> what was the first rock 'n roll experience? >> what's your sign? >> do you personally participate in recycling? >> if you had it to do over again, would you inhale? >> i'm very skeptical and i am also very cynical. >> sure, if i could. i tried before. >> it's just like you could just see it was all just pandering, but after two terms of reagan and then a term of george bush, it was a breath of fresh like air. >> on this day, the american people have voted to make a new beginning. >> bill clinton wins as the avatar of this rising

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♪ smells like teen spirit - everyone stopped what they were doing and everyone looked around, and you just knew. like, you knew this is it. ♪ i found it hard, it's hard to find ♪ ♪ oh well, whatever, nevermind - i remember listening to it and going "holy crap". it was a revelation. - for a child who was raised in a southern baptist home that was told never to watch mtv. i was like what is this? it was like my eyes were wide open. - me and the anarchy cheerleaders just felt like something is suddenly being expressed and just like, barfing out of your tv screen. - i was maybe twelve, watching nirvana on snl play "smells like teen spirit", and i expressed verbally to my sister, "this makes me feel like nothing matters". and i remember just being spiritually crushed

and also totally liberated. (strings crescendo) (crowd cheering) - i don't know how it just was like oh, we have a new world order. - [ethan] "nevermind" rocketed to number one, and dethroned the king of pop. - they're moving units. and that's when the major label world wakes up. - [ethan] suddenly, grunge was everywhere. there was "singles," a movie set in seattle, with cameos from pearl jam and soundgarden. then came lollapalooza, also featuring pearl jam and soundgarden. selling out cities across america. - you see grunge go from being this underground form of music, what they called alternative music, to not being the alternative, but being the thing in the center. - [tv reporter] the grunge look is an urban lumberjack, anything-goes ensemble of duck boots, tattered shirts, and long underwear. - my perception of grunge is

it was the next phase of hippie-dom. it was sloppy, it was tattered. - my parents will look at me and be like, "did you pay for those jeans?" yes, i paid for these jeans. and it's the worst joke ever, if you are of the boomer generation, do not make that joke. (laughter) - what does it stand for? - you know it's really funny, i've always been considered a slob, ya know, and now i'm in fashion. all of a sudden, i'm hip! - you even had heroin chic, which was making models look like they were strung out. i mean, this is kind of where things were. - all of a sudden, people who had had something very very underground and tribal, it was no longer their personal secret to keep. - ya know, i went to umass, and my friend's roommate had a nirvana garbage can, and it was like what? what? - i don't- i know that i'm too stubborn to allow myself to ever compromise our music. - because of nirvana there was a little moment there where you could be like "no i'm not selling out, you know, you wanna come to me you come on my terms". - trying too hard to be cool was worse than any

social crime you could commit. can you picture kurt cobain, taking a selfie with a straight face? - we're not as popular as everyone thinks, we're not as rich as everyone thinks, ya know. - as we know, cause we now have access to his journals, he really did want to be a star. he wanted to be in the biggest rock band in the world, which he achieved. but at the same time, he really didn't want to be seen as wanting that. - it was this tightrope that he had to walk. - [interviewer] you like fatherhood? - vodka? yes i love vodka. - he had an incredible sense of humor. he was really playful, and really fun, and really funny. when he was in a good way. when he was in a bad way, he was in a bad way. - hi i'm kurt loder with an mtv news special report on a very sad day. kurt cobain, the leader of one of rock's most gifted and promising bands, nirvana, is dead. cobain's body was found at a house in seattle on friday morning, he was dead of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head. - [ethan] everyone in our generation remembers this day.

- i didn't want to believe that he would kill himself. - i'm shocked. he could have gone so much more places with his talent. - i just keep seeing his face and just like i just don't understand it, that's all. - in 1980, when john lennon was assassinated, the nation stopped. years later when kurt cobain died, and gen-xers said "this was our hero", the baby boomers refused to acknowledge that kurt cobain could have that much meaning. that in some sense encapsulates the way that gen x thinks about itself. we mattered... what happened in those decades mattered. - a generation never ends. a generation carries on. i relate to kurt because i was there. and later on in my life i became suicidal, and i'm fortunate to still be here. so i got a responsibility to talk about it. they got a song called, "come as you are". come happy, and high, and jovial. come as depressed as you are. but, unless you admit, how you feel,

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indeed, i did have a relationship with ms. lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> she is monica lewinsky, who was at the time, a 21-year-old white house intern. after a president has quit, after a president has been shot, the idea that a president could get a blow job suddenly was no longer the end of some type of innocence. >> politicians did as politicians do. >> he has disgraced the office and he should resign. >> on the right they said clinton's presidency was toast. >> there should not be a rush to judgment on what legal standing means high crimes and misdemeanors. >> on the left they said it is what it is, but that depends, of course. >> it depends on what the meaning of the word is, you know. >> i can't think of a single 18

or 19-year-old who wouldn't be like yeah, i'll take a swing with the president and i think it's absolutely ludicrous to deny it. power is sexy. i'm not even particularly fond of men but even i was like yeah, he'd get it. >> the future of the bill clinton presidency is an unlocked vault in a congressional office building. the voluminous report of independence and -- independent counsel ken starr, depositions, video and audio tapes. the report from ken starr is out. details are tough to take, decidedly not for the faint of heart. >> the customers here at the java cafe are among the millions reading the starr report all over the country and around the world. >> you knew it was going to say that he had an affair with monica lewinsky. you knew it was going to say he had lied about that affair under oath. what you did not know was that the report was going to be extremely graphic. >> copies of ken starr's

extraordinary report with all its graphic detail of the presidents sexual behavior went on sale in washington this morning. the queue stretched around the block. light meant -- >> it was like an early.com. i remember reading it online. >> at one point the report says she lifted up her jacket to expose the visible straps of her thong underwear. he fondled her. he performed oral . -- oral sex. >> that was like the softcore of our area. >> there was a clear underlying feeling like who was this slot? >> for the record would you state your full name? >> yes, monica's email lewinsky. >> the people who were punished socially, politically, in the press, were monica lewinsky and hillary clinton, and not bill clinton.

>> monica lewinsky, at the center of a presidential scandal, was surrounded last thursday. some would say trapped like an animal. >> it was always called the monica lewinsky candle. it was never the bill clinton scandal. >> all the languages to describe her -- >> what the saxophone player that monica lewinsky turned out to be. >> he skated out of that white house known as the big dog with a kind of sexualized admiration. >> kind of stunned that he lied to us all and you know, all that stuff, but you know, still, i forgive him and i think everyone else should because he's been trying to do his best. >> will clinton's reputation has taken hit or three, but he's always going to be former president bill clinton and he's always going to be the intern who had with him. this was a human being and this was a profound trauma that she endured. >> said lewinsky quote, i never expected to fall in love with the president.

i was surprised that i did. at times, she believed he loved her, too. >> i don't know that i really understood how horrible we were at the time, and later on realizing wow, that was just my own sexism and misogyny embedded in me that i didn't even know i had. >> you know, we have become more enlightened to an extent as a culture. we understand things like power dynamics now. we can look at something like that and understand that there is more than meets the eye. >> i think we are at a moment where we are in desperate need of more middle ground, and desperate need for the understanding that we are all flawed, and we all screw up and none of us wants to be judged by the worst thing we did, and that all of us yearns for the opportunity for redemption. >> in the end, maybe that is

the lesson for this generation. we don't want to be judged for what we lived through. if we want to be remembered at all, we want to be remembered for the things we did, the sites we saw, the part we created. our generation, for all its ups and downs, reminded everyone of a few universal truths. be bold, be stylish, be yourself, be independent, get lost sometimes, work hard, play hard, but don't get greedy. learn how to do nothing. perfectly. tell the truth, even when it's hard. love each other. keep a part of your soul that is not for sale. don't take yourself too seriously. don't expect a trophy and always wear sunscreen. >> when i think of gen x, we are the ones that get done without all the fanfare. >> the default philosophy for a gen x kid was like just do it. be self-reliant, set your own goals , figure things out.

so, if i had any words of advice, don't wait for the praise. go do it. i don't know, figure it out. (orchestral music) ♪♪ nd there were office rs. rs. it looked straight out of a tv show. it was a crime scene. absolutely. the husband had gunshot wounds to the chest. and then, kathleen, there was a gunshot wound to her head. the police believed it was probably a murder-suicide. that changed once they heard about the phone call.