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Questions - 1960s - February 5-6, 2014

50 Years Ago Today: 63% Have Seen Beatles Debut on Ed Sullivan Show
35% Think Baby Boomers Have Been Good for America
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National Survey of 1,000 Adults

Conducted February 5-6, 2014
By Rasmussen Reports

1* Do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of the so-called Baby Boomer generation?

2* The Baby Boomer generation includes what age group – those born from 1929 to 1945 during the Great Depression and World War II, those born after the war from 1946 to 1964, the children born during the Vietnam and Watergate years 1965 to 1974 or those born when Ronald Reagan was president during the 1980s?

3* Has the Baby Boomer generation been good or bad for America? Or has its impact on the country been about the same as that of other generations?

4* Many Baby Boomers grew up to the popular music of the 1960s including artists like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of the popular music of the 1960s?

5* How often do you listen to the popular music of the 1960s – rarely or never, occasionally, several times a month, or several times a week?

6* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the Beatles?

7* The Beatles made their television debut in the United States on The Ed Sullivan Show 50 years ago on February 9, 1964. Have you ever seen that performance?

8* Do you own at least one Beatles album?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence