1964 (28 images)

Ted Kennedy managed a smile and a wave of his hand on July 9, 1964, as he was transferred via ambulance from Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, MA, to the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. A broken back meant months of suffering. (UPI Photo/Files)

Six months after the death of John F. Kennedy, on Sunday, 17 May 1964, the state of North Carolina held a memorial service for Kennedy in Kenan Stadium on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. In an effort to raise money for the Kennedy presidential library, ?a living memorial,? each state pledged to raise funds. An estimated 12,000 people attended the memorial, paying $10.00 to attend and contribute toward the goal. Rose Kennedy, mother of the former president, addressed the crowds. (UPI Photo/Files)

Actress Sophia loren (L), seen here with her mother Romilda Villani in a 1964 file photo. (UPI Photo.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson speaks at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Chicago, IL, April 23, 1964. The president denounced those who said "there is nothing we can do" about the nation’s problems, and promised that his administration would continue to attack discrimination, unemployment, poverty, a 2nd class educational system, problems of the aging and the waste of natural resources. (UPI Photo)