'Star Trek' flashback: 1968 protest at NBC against show cancellation plans »
Posted By brendoman 1 year, 2 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentAbove you can see my latest find, a fantastic time-capsule image that was published Jan. 8, 1968, in The Times. The photo shows Cal Tech students protesting in front of the Burbank studios of NBC. It's great checking out the clothes and placard messages, but I groaned when I read the caption that appeared in the paper with the photo. One line of the caption made it painfully clear that photographer Harry Chase and the copy desk editors of 1968 were not exactly big 'Star Trek" fans: "Signs for and against Dr. Benjamin Spock appear amid the other protesting possible canceling of Star-Trek television series as 'totally illogical.'"
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