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ROEPER: We've come a long way from carefree days of TV 

I'm watching "Hollywood Palace," an hourlong variety series that is among the thousands upon thousands of programs and specials on file in the library of the Museum of Television and Radio in Manhattan. . .

This tape is from ABC's coverage of Sept. 11, and it consists mostly of unnarrated footage. . .

After a few minutes, I stop the tragedy footage and punch in the code that returns me to "Hollywood Palace" and the summer of 1964. The tape even includes the commercials, including ads for L&M cigarettes ("More taste, more flavor, more pleasure!") and Velvet pipe tobacco, touted as the ideal gift for Father's Day.

How reckless and naive we all were were back then. [This graph only]

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