The 60’s in the World

  • Wilma Rudolph 1960 Olympics Rome
  • Kennedy – Nixon Debates
  • Y A Tittle Closes his Career
  • yogi berra
  • Frankie and Annette
  • Watching Alan Shephard Flight
  • Apollo program successfully launches
  • John F Kennedy – Robert F Kennedy – Marilyn Monroe
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Elvis Presley
  • John F and Robert F Kennedy
  • John Glenn and John F Kennedy
  • Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
  • Alan Shepard, first American to travel into space
  • John F Kennedy – Nikita Khrushchev
  • Lunch Counter Sit-In
  • Johnny Carson, new host of The Tonight Show
  • LBJ Presidential Oath
  • Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle
  • Che Guevara
  • Martin Luther King Jr. & Malcolm X
  • Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Marlon Brando
  • John F Kennedy Funeral Procession
  • Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show
  • Rev Dr Martin Luther King
  • The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
  • New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows
  • The Beatles, New York
  • Civil Rights Protest Newark
  • Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon Johnson
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama
  • American animal actor Spook, as Lassie, sits next to child actor Jon Provost, as Timmy, who prays in an episode of the television show ‘Lassie’ entitled ‘Cully’s New Pet,’ July 12, 1960. The episode originally aired September 25, 1960. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
  • Civil Rights Protest Birmingham.
  • Skateboarding
  • Alcatraz is closed as a prison
  • Mary Quant starts selling miniskirts
  • Antiwar Demonstration
  • Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton marry.
  • HAIR the musical
  • Beverly Hillbillies
  • First American to ever perform a spacewalk
  • Packers beat the Chiefs in the 1st Super Bowl
  • The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
  • Twiggy is named “The Face of 1966”
  • Civil Rights Protest – Detroit
  • Drop Acid not Bombs
  • The Graduate
  • Vietnam War
  • Gateway Arch in St. Louis
  • Vietnam War Protest
  • Andy Warhol
  • Watts Riot
  • Civil Rights Protest – Detroit
  • Robert F Kennedy Assassination.
  • Soviet forces withdrew from Czechoslovakia
  • Sesame Street debuts
  • Demonstration at 1968 Democratic Convention
  • Antiwar Demonstration
  • Helen Gurley Brown publishes Sex and the Single Girl
  • Robert F Kennedy
  • President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing he will not run for another presidential term.jpg
  • Vietnam War
  • Charles Manson
  • King Assassination Riots – Washington DC
  • Martin Luther King Jr. killer James Earl Ray
  • Olympic protest in opposition to racism
  • Vietnam Execution
  • Lorraine Motel
  • Vietnam War Protest
  • Vietnam War Protest – San Francisco
  • Vietnam War
  • Elvis Presley scores his final #1 hit with Suspicious Minds
  • Thich Quang Duc Burning Monk
  • Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
  • Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
  • Vietnam War Protest Paris
  • Woodstock Music & Art Fair
  • Joe Nameth
  • Big Ben Davidson (83) and Tom Keating (on ground) of the Oakland Raiders got to San Francisco 49er quarterback John Brodie on what appeared to be a busted play on Dec. 20, 1970 in game played on muddy field in Oakland but the play was called back and San Francisco penalized for illegal procedure. The Forty Niner line set a record for the season today when they did not allow the defense to get to the quarterback a single time. Forty Niners also won the game 38-7 and the division championship, their first ever in the NFL. (AP Photo) ORG XMIT: APHS205918
  • Woodstock Music & Art Fair
  • Stonewall LGBT Riots – New York

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