Born in 1960 |
- 1960 - A retro journey through the news, history and counter culture of the 1960s |
Passed in 1960 |
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 The Cultural Sixties began in late Fall
of 1963 with the assassination of John Kennedy
and a post Christmas song called I Want To
Hold Your Hand by The Beatles. 1960 and
the two years following were an extension of the
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The Nation 1960
For What It's Worth The cost of a new house $12,700 The mortgage interest rate 1.8% The cost of new car $2,600 The
average income $5,315 A gallon of milk 50 cents A US Postage stamp 4 cents Unemployment Rate 5.5%
It was not until 1960 that the Supreme Court began to enforce integration they had unanimously decided upon with Brown vs. Education in 1954.
Norman Rockwell's famous painting of six year old Ruby
Bridges suffering a hail of racial
epitaphs and tomatoes as she integrated the
first school in New Orleans.
We are doing the
twist with Chubby Checker and
laughing at Don Knotts on black & white TV.
Nightly news aired
for 15 minutes at 7:30pm EST. The anchors are Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC, John Daly on ABC and Douglas Edwards on CBS.
John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson win the Presidency with one of the smallest margins in history - 113,000 votes out of 68.3 million.
The first rumblings of an organized civil rights movement begin at a lunch counter in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Nobel prizes 1960
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The World 1960
The cold war is in full swing with Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN telling us he would bury us
The Berlin Wall is under construction and the Soviet Union was ahead in the Space Race
France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara desert to join the US, UK and USSR as a Nuclear Power
Fidel Castro confiscates $770 million of U.S. property
The sexual revolution of the Sixties begins with women using birth control pills and the first Playboy Club opening in Chicago
900 U.S. military advisers are sent to Vietnam.
Israelis Kidnap Adolf Eichman from Argentina to Jerusalem
Capt. Gary Powers U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia
Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.
The Class of 1960
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The Year That Was
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