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1960-1969

1960-1969

Kennedy wins election by slim margin

1960 Election -- November 09, 1960

Rebel army invades Cuba, battles for beachheads

Cuba: Bay of Pigs -- By FRANCIS L. McCARTHY, UPI Writer -- April 17, 1961

Khrushchev warns U.S. against Cuban invasion

Cuba: Bay of Pigs -- By HENRY SHAPIRO -- April 22, 1961

East Berlin a city under siege

Berlin Wall -- By JOHN A. CALLCOTT -- August 14, 1961

Cuba blockade stands, U. S. says

Cuban Missile Crisis -- October 25, 1962

JFK denies U. S. planned Cuba invasion air cover

Cuba: Bay of Pigs -- January 24, 1963

They're turning the hose on us

Civil Rights: Birmingham -- May 03, 1963

More than 200,000 rally for civil rights

Civil Rights: Birmingham -- August 28, 1963

Grief, rage hang over church blast scene

Civil Rights: Birmingham -- By WILLIAM K. HANDEL -- September 15, 1963

Eyewitness account of Kennedy assassination

JFK Assassination (Pulitzer) -- BY MERRIMAN SMITH, White House Reporter -- November 23, 1963

The light flickers out in Vietnam

Vietnam: Fall of Saigon -- By LEON DANIEL -- May 09, 1975

Oswald's 1959 interview with UPI

JFK Assassination (Pulitzer) -- By ALINE MOSBY -- November 23, 1963

UPI reporter close as Ruby shot Oswald

JFK Assassination (Pulitzer) -- By TERRANCE W. McGARRY -- November 24, 1963

Alabama state police gas, beat Selma Negro marchers

Civil Rights: Selma -- March 07, 1965

War begins in Mideast

The Middle East War -- By United Press International -- June 05, 1967

King shot, condition critical

Civil Rights: MLK jr. Assassination -- April 04, 1968

Vast throng pays King last tribute

Civil Rights: MLK jr. Assassination -- April 09, 1968

Victory cries are followed by anguish

RFK Assassination -- June 05, 1968

Soviets bloc troops invade Czechoslovia

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia -- August 21, 1968

Nixon's goals: unity and peace

1968 Election -- November 07, 1968

World watches as man steps onto alien world for first time

Apollo 11 Moon Landing -- July 20, 1969

Diana Oughton Profile -- The Making of a Terrorist

Weather Underground (Pulitzer) -- By LUCINDA FRANKS and THOMAS POWERS -- September 14, 1970

Kennedy wins election by slim margin

1960 Election -- November 09, 1960

Battle for 'Hamburger Hill' over

1960 Election -- May 20, 1969

Domestic issues aired By Nixon and Kennedy in first debate

1960 Election -- September 27, 1960

JFK Donates Full Salary To Charity

1960 Election -- November 14, 1962

Hank Aaron apologetic about milestone HR

UPI Staff -- July 15, 1968

Johnson signs Medicare

United Press International -- July 30, 1965

Crazed student kills 15 persons; finally shot

James T. Young -- August 01, 1966

Quake jams hospitals in Philippines

United Press International -- August 02, 1968

Doctors hopeful for new JFK son

Alvin Spivak -- August 07, 1963

Actress, heiress, 3 men slain in bizarre setting

Vernon Scott -- August 10, 1969

Thousands flee Woodstock chaos, mud

United Press International -- August 16, 1969

Russ praise president's U.N. speech

Merriman Smith -- September 20, 1963

JFK signs bill for Peace Corps

United Press International -- September 22, 1961

Johnson gets Warren report

JFK Assassination (Pulitzer) -- United Press International -- September 24, 1964

Captured U.S. pilots 'criminals,' says Hanoi

United Press International -- September 29, 1965

Thurgood Marshall sworn in as justice of Supreme Court

United Press International -- October 02, 1967

Long illness kills singer Woody Guthrie

United Press International -- October 04, 1967

Movies agree to new film rating program

United Press International -- October 08, 1968

Nik relieved of job, replaced

United Press International -- October 15, 1964

Carmichael is sentenced for Black Panther rally

United Press International -- November 30, 1966

St. Louis 'tops off' lofty 'Gateway Arch'

United Press International -- October 29, 1965

District of Columbia finally gets to vote

1964 Election -- United Press International -- November 03, 1964

Children cheer 'Heidi,' but football fans angry

United Press International -- November 18, 1968

France launches first satellite

United Press International -- November 26, 1965

'Astronauttes' beg for place in space

United Press International -- July 17, 1962

Hanoi says admiral's flier son is captured

United Press International -- October 27, 1967

LBJ will cut budget, nuclear output

Merriman Smith -- January 08, 1964

Churchill is dead

United Press International -- January 24, 1965

3 astronauts die in Apollo capsule

Al Rossiter Jr. -- January 28, 1967

Grid hall admits 'dream backfield'

United Press -- January 29, 1963

Cold War not affected by exchange of prisoners

Stewart Hensley -- February 10, 1962

French explode atomic bomb in Sahara Desert

Anthony Austin -- February 13, 1960

'Ice Queen,' 17 other U.S. skaters killed

United Press International -- February 15, 1961

Volcano blows off on Bali

United Press International -- March 21, 1963

Last Alcatraz inmates depart

Peter J. Hayes -- March 21, 1963

Civil rights bill signed

United Press International -- April 10, 1968

1st degree verdict for Sirhan Sirhan

Jack V. Fox -- April 17, 1969

Old London Bridge to move to Arizona

United Press International -- April 18, 1968

Tanganyika, Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania

United Press International -- April 26, 1964

Johnson says Hanoi agrees to talks in Paris

Merriman Smith -- May 03, 1968

Stepped up search for killer

United Press International -- December 23, 1968

Berryessa killer termed a deviate

United Press International -- October 01, 1969

Blood-soaked cloth sent to paper after murder

United Press International -- October 15, 1969

Unrepentant Eichmann hanged

United Press International -- June 01, 1962

RFK dies, services Saturday in New York

RFK Assassination -- United Press International -- June 06, 1968

Sirhan's father deeply shaken; 'blackest day of my life'

RFK Assassination -- United Press International -- June 06, 1968

Police issue all points bulletin for woman at RFK assassination

RFK Assassination -- United Press International -- June 06, 1968

Underground movie actress shoots Warhol

United Press International -- June 04, 1968

Ray, accused of murdering Martin Luther King Jr., arrested

Civil Rights: MLK jr. Assassination -- United Press International -- June 08, 1968

Race Tension Builds Up in Virgin Isles

UPI -- April 26, 1968

Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space

Space Race: Sputnik -- Alvin B. Webb -- June 17, 1963

Washington, Moscow establish 'hot line' link

United Press International -- June 20, 1963

Nina Simone's 'Soul' reigns 6th year

Hugh Wyatt -- July 04, 1968

France ignores treaty, to test H-bombs

United Press International -- July 01, 1968

U.S. launches, orbits Telstar; global video visualized

Alvin B. Webb Jr. -- July 10, 1962

Rower of Atlantic turns up on beach

United Press International -- July 20, 1969

U.S. draft call doubled

United Press International -- July 28, 1965

Former Green Beret chief in Vietnam held in slaying

Bert W. Okuley -- August 06, 1969

Lunar Orbiter I circles moon in near-perfect path

United Press International -- August 14, 1966

Pope arrives in Colombia

United Press International -- August 22, 1968

Rockwell, U.S. Nazi party leader, slain

United Press International -- August 25, 1967

President Johnson will deliver acceptance speech

United Press International -- August 27, 1964

For families of astronauts Cooper, Conrad long wait is over today

William Clayton -- August 30, 1965

South African premier slain

United Press International -- September 06, 1966

Dignitaries, grid greats dedicate football shrine

Robert Tenenbaum -- September 07, 1963

Smith wins fifth U.S. gold medal

United Press International -- October 17, 1968

Jackie 'very happy,' marries Onassis today

United Press International -- October 20, 1968

Coal slag buries Welsh school

United Press International -- October 21, 1966

Indians invade Alcatraz again

United Press International -- November 20, 1969

Castro admits he's a Red to the core

United Press International -- December 02, 1961

Arthur Ashe placed first in U.S. tennis rankings

United Press International -- December 12, 1968

Airliners collide over New York City

Jack V. Fox -- December 16, 1960

Apollo astronauts report 'everything looks okay' in greatest adventure in space

United Press International -- December 21, 1968

Events

Civil Rights: James Meredith

Civil Rights: Birmingham

JFK Assassination (Pulitzer)

China's Atomic Bomb

1964 Election

Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin

Civil Rights: Selma

Vietnam War: Tet Offensive

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Civil Rights: MLK jr. Assassination

RFK Assassination

1968 Election

Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Civil Rights: Desegregation

The Beatles

1960 Year In Review

Intro to the Events of 1960

The Paris Summit Falls Apart

Morocco Earthquake

Flight Trial in Moscow

United Nations Meeting

Casey Stengel retires, Clark Gable Dies

North Pole and Echo 1

Kennedy Wins 1960 Presidential Election

1961 Year In Review

Death of Dag Hammarskj

Russian Nuclear Controversy

Eichmann Executed by Israel

Wall Goes Up in Berlin

1962 Year In Review

Events of 1962

Glenn then Russians Orbit Earth

1962 Elections, Other Events

Marilyn Monroe and Elenor Roosevelt Die

U Thant and Air France Tragedy

1963 Year In Review

Events of 1963

Kennedy Assassination

Transition to Johnson

University of Alabama

Other Events in Congress

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Kennedy Assassination

Intro

The Shooting in Dallas

The Funeral and Procession

Lyndon B. Johnson Sworn in

Oswald Shot and Killed

1964 Year in Review

Events of 1964

New Moscow: Khrushchev Fired

1964 Presidential Election

Brittish and French Politics

Berlin and Pope Paul VI

China's Power and Africa's Troubles

Jack Ruby Convicted, Domestic Issues

1964 Olympics, The Beatles

War and Peace and Nuclear Proliferation

War Rages in Vietnam

Conflict Between Greeks and Turks

The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev

1965 Year in Review

Events of 1965

The Conflict in Vietnam Widens

The Economy

Dominican Revolution, Cuba

De Gaulle, Congo, and Russian Kremlin

Pope Paul VI Visits U.S.

Civil Rights Movement in 1965

Presidential Health Concerns

1966 Year in Review

1966 Midterm Elections

Prices Rise/Labor Disputes

1966 Civil Rights

NATO

Space Race

Disasters/ Achievements/ Johnson Surgery

1967 Year in Review

Foreign Affairs: Greeks and Turks

Riots Sweep the Nation

Johnson Administration

Obituaries and Inventions

Protests

1968 Year in Review

Events of 1968

1968 Presidential Election

Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

Martin Luther King Assassination

Poor People's March

Student Demonstrations

Pope Paul VI/Garbage Strike

Vietnam War/Tet Offensive

N. Korea Seize U.S. Ship

Russia Invades Czechoslovakia

1969 Year in Review

Nixon Becomes President

Supreme Court

Chappaquiddick

Charles DeGaulle Defeated

Eisenhower, Judy Garland Die

Foreign Affairs: Northern Ireland/Russia

Hijacking

Archive Blog

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50 years after Watts Riots, police and race again at forefront 3 years ago ago

It's the 50th anniversary of the day Marquette Frye was pulled over for drunk driving and things turned violent, resulting in the Watts Riots.

Obama, Selma to mark 50th anniversary of historic civil rights march 3 years ago ago

President Barack Obama will deliver a speech at the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March on Saturday.

1960-1969

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