Mickey Mantle discusses being brought up to the pros in an early 1950s interview. He shares what it means to go from class C to the Triple As to the A league, and what he will try to accomplish. Mantle was a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968.

Joseph McCarthy is interviewed about what he believes McCarthyism really is, and whether he has regrets about his tactics regarding the State Department. McCarthyism began in the United States during the period of the "Second Red Scare", lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956. During this period, fear of communism enveloped the US and efforts came about to find and repress communists in America.

James Watson and Francis Crick discuss how they discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, and how they worked off each other to their mutual advantage. In 1953, Watson and Crick used Rosalind Franklin's idea of a helix and added a second dimension- a double helix in which the chains of nucleotides went opposite each other.

Sheila Horvits recalls growing up Jewish during the McCarthy era, and how McCarthyism seeped into every aspect of life. McCarthyism was the practice of accusing people of disloyalty to the United States and of having communist leanings. The McCarthy era lasted from about 1950 to 1956 in the United States.

Director Arthur Penn talks about his experience as a student and later as a director during the Un-American Activities Committee's reign in the McCarthy Era. He discusses the struggle to decide between abiding by these ideas and working around them.The McCarthy era began about 1950 and lasted until about 1956, in which repression of communism and fear and paranoia of its spread took hold of the United States.

Bill Newcott interviews Frank Sinatra, Jr. for My Generation inside the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles where Frank Sinatra recorded much of his music. The two discuss some of Frank’s more famous friends, including Dean Martin; how the world of music changes in the 1960s with Elvis Presley’s music plus the British Invasion; how Frank Sinatra, Jr. served as his father’s musical director for the last 7 years of his concert performances; and more.

John W. Whitehead, President of The Rutherford Institute, recalls the day Buddy Holly died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. He was 12 years old and attending a dance when he heard the news: "It was like walking into a room of zombies." Whitehead goes on to talk about Buddy Holly's legacy and why he was a distinguished artist that influenced groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Musician Tommy Allsup and the widowed Maria Elena Holly, former wife of Buddy Holly, recalls the day of Holly's death–and how that day changed the course of their lives. Holly was killed in a plane crash after finishing a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Iowa on February 3, 1959. Allsup, who lost a coin toss for a seat on the flight, never got on the plane that would eventually kill his friends. He explains how his goal in life is to continue their musical legacy.

Songbird Whitney Houston reminisces about when her mother, Cissy, sang with the Sweet Inspirations as a back-up for Elvis Presley, both in the recording studio and on tours, starting in 1969. Find out what lavish outfit Presley was wearing when Houston first met The King and how she reacted to being in his presence. Sweet Inspirations also sang the backup vocals for Aretha Franklin.

The Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, born Dolores Hicks, recalls an especially tender gesture from Elvis Presley and shares how it affected one woman for the rest of her life. Before embracing a religious vocation, Hart appeared in ten films in five years, debuting in Loving You (1957) as the love interest of Elvis Presley. In 1958, she acted in another Presley film, King Creole.