ABSTRACT
Existentially, authentic communication issues do not emerge within a vacuum or in the abstract, but rather arise from attentive meeting of questions and demands that shape a given historical moment, prompting necessity of response. Communication issues exist before and after their most visible points of entry into the public domain; their identity becomes transparent when a historical moment saturated with conversation about them emerges. A public historical welcome of communicative meeting ensued in the 1960s, just as free speech was entwined with the events of World War II and small group communication leadership studies organically emerged during the Korean War. The 1960s ushered forth the public identity of communicative meeting; this communication reality was not, of course, created in the 1960s, but it was disciplined into daily consciousness in that era.
