1960-63

1960

89% of Households

Gray Flannel Suit

Bugs become used to DDT

1st Birth Control Pill

U-2 is Shot Down

New Aluminum Cans!

Heart Pacemaker

Sit-Ins Begin

The AFL is Started

Eichmann Captured

Psycho

Let's Twist!

Castro Nationalizes

Presidential Campaign

Campaign Issues:

• Missile Gap
• Catholicism
• Age and Experience
• Television Debates
• Daddy's Money

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1961

Kennedy Inaugural Speech

Yuri Gagarin beats Alan Shepard

Blue Moon

Spartacus

Kennedy fumbles

1st American in Space

Vienna Summit

Wait, Mr. Postman

Berlin Wall

• Since 1949, 2.5 million East Germans had fled to the West.
• "Brain Drain" - mostly skilled professionals left
• 87 miles of fences were replaced by the wall.

Freedom Riders

Lenny Bruce

Runaround Sue

Vietnam Commitments Grow

• From 700 Military Advisors in 1961 to 16,000 in 1963
• 30,000 "subversives" in prison camps
• Funding for Vietnam tripled under the Kennedy Administration
• Strategic Hamlets project begins

Nuclear Bomb Shelters

Elvis in the Movies

1962

The Locomotion

Death of an Icon

Cuban Missle Crisis

Cuban Missle Crisis

• American spy - Oleg Penkovsky warns his CIA handlers that Soviet missile launch sites are being built on Cuba
• American U-2 spy planes confirm this intelligence on October 14th.
• Penkovsky will be captured and killed days later. Cremated alive?

Cuban Missile Crisis

• What should Kennedy do?
• 1.Do nothing
• 2.Invade Cuba
• 3.Blockade the Island
• Kennedy warns the nation on October 22

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Khrushchev initially refused to dismantle the weapons.
• The US begins massing troops in S. Florida.
• An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba
• Americans drop depth-charges on a nuclear armed Soviet submarine

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Castro asks Khrushchev to use nukes if the US invades Cuba.
• Secret negotiations take place which will diffuse the situation
• On October 28th the Soviets back down

Post-Missile Crisis

• Soviets pull out missiles from Cuba
• US agrees to never invade Cuba
• US will secretly pull missiles out of Turkey
• The "Red Phone" will be installed in the White House/Kremlin to avoid future mistakes

Johnny Angel

Beverly Hillbillies

Wal-Mart and K-Mart

Integrating Ole Miss

"There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration. We will not drink from the cup of genocide. ... We must either submit to the unlawful dictates of the federal government or stand up like men and tell them never! ... No school will be integrated in Mississippi while I am your Governor!" - Ross Barnett

Ole Miss Riots

• Kennedy ordered in 31,000 troops (later secretly removed 4000 black troops)
• 1/3 of Federal Marshalls were injured
• 3 sets of code words were used to keep control of troop ammunition
• Two men died

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Wilt the Stilt

Andy Warhol

The Wanderer

John Glenn

Lawrence of Arabia

Mariner 2

School Prayer Banned

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Continental Drift

Cassettes

The Angels

Walk Like a Man

Surfin USA

Sidney Poitier

Where the Wild Things Are

The Nutty Professor

Celtics Win Again

Gideon's Trumpet

Buddist Monk Protest

Birmingham

Birmingham

• Non-violence movement had stalled in GA. S.C.L.C. looked for a new place to take the "fight".
• Bull Connor was in charge of both the Birmingham Police and Fire Dept.
• He was also a brutal man

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Birmingham

• Dr. King & the S.C.L.C. arrive in Birmingham to organize protests from the 16th St. Baptist Church.
• Dr. King and thousands of others will be arrested for marching without a permit.
• While in jail, King writes his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail".

16th St. Baptist Church

Birmingham

• Numbers of protesters started to shrink.
• Rev. James Bevel had the idea of using students.
• This started the Children's March

Children's March - Birmingham

• Code named "D-Day", Students left their schools and walked to the 16th St. Baptist Church on May 2.
• Students move throughout the city to begin protests peacefully.
• Almost 1000 students are arrested.

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Children's March - Birmingham

• Day 2 of the march will be different - Commissioner Connor meant to threaten/bully/intimidate the students to stop protesting
• He had the fire dept turn their hoses up to maximum against the children, he also authorized police beatings with batons and the use of dogs

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Children's March - Birmingham

• By now the national and international press was reporting on the violent treatment of the non-violent students.
• The jails were overcrowded and students were being held at the fairgrounds.
• Pressure mounted and City Council and business leaders gave in.
• Birmingham would be de-segregated

Birmingham - Aftermath

• Birmingham school board tried to expel students for participating in the March
• 16th St. Baptist Church was bombed in September - 4 young girls were murdered in the blast

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University of Alabama

Medgar Evers

Kennedy Proposes Equal Rights

Kennedy Baby Lost

March on Washington

La Cosa Nostra

The Fire Next Time

CIA Backed Coup

The Pink Panther

JFK in Dallas

LBJ Is Sworn In

Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald is Shot

JFK's Funeral