A lot of the reason it feels older, for people who weren't alive at the time, is how we as a culture displayed & taught these incidents to later generations.
In in the 80s & 90s when my text books had chapters covering the civil rights movement all photographs were black & white. As if to imply they ONLY had black & white film, so it must've been very long ago. JFK had full colour, despite his assassination happening years earlier than Martin Luther King who was exclusively shown in monochrome photography. I've seen these photos & stock footage in colour in other sources, many older than my text books.
It's purposely & disastrously misleading, especially when these chapters are often segregated away from others. Like one book just had a black history chapter/s section, that went from slavery to the civil rights, away from contemporary events, making it really easy to not realize many of the photos inserted into & scenes depicted in the text were happening before & during the same year as the very much in colour depicted moon landing.
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