Newly elected
President John Kennedy and Jackie bring new vigor to the White House in 1961.
JFK's news
conferences were widely watched in 1962.
The President with
John Jr. in 1963.
Movie actress/sex
symbol Marilyn Monroe dies of an apparent suicide in 1962.
A high school
basketball team in 1966.
Apollo 11 astronauts
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin in 1969.
Apollo 11 blasts of on
July 16, 1969.
Buzz Aldrin on the
moon---July 20, 1969.
A high school
classroom in 1968.
November 22,
1963---President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Two days later, Jack
Ruby murders accused assassin Lee Oswald in the Dallas police station.
By 1968, America was
embroiled in Vietnam and split the country.
The Beatles burst on
the musical scene in 1964.
Segregated facilities in
the South in 1962.
Church bombing which
killed four young girls in 1963.
The car which
belonged to three murdered civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.
The car belonging to
murdered civil rights worker, Viola Liuzzo, in Alabama, in 1965.
Woodstock became a
phenomenon in 1969.
President Lyndon
Johnson in 1966.
Robert Kennedy
became Attorney General under his presidential brother in 1961.
Civil rights leader
Martin L. King, Jr. in 1963.
In 1968, Soviet troops
invade Czechoslovakia.
High school students
head for the buses in 1966.
Check out some of the
hairstyles of eighth grade students in 1965.
A high school
basketball game in 1965.
The pace lap of the
famed Indianapolis "500" in 1965.
A busy midwestern
town in 1965.
The start of a
hydroplane race in 1965.
Robert Kennedy, now
a New York Senator, is assassinated in Los Angeles, in 1968, while running for President of the
US.
A young girl prepares
for a date in the summer of 1969.
A sixteen year old girl
tries to get a tan in this 1968 photo.
A young girl checks out
the flooded Ohio River in 1964.
The singing ensemble,
The New Christy Minstrels, were popular in 1964.
The film thriller,
"Psycho", appeared in 1960.
A look at college
co-eds in 1965.
A little girl checks out
the Christmas tree in 1960.
College students
arriving for the fall semester in 1964.
A young girl sits with
her doll in 1961.
Two students at their
eighth grade graduation in 1965.
Two young people
marry in 1967.
Easter 1961---Children
in their new holiday clothes.
The next five photos are the courtesy of Bil Paul.
A young hippy displays
her "birthday suit" in 1967.
Merry monks in
1967.
Protesters prepare to
roll a police car in California in 1967.
Two people leave a
demonstration after tear gas was thown in 1967.
Hippies in this 1967
photo.
A young lady poses for
her senior portrait in 1969.
Eddie Sachs and Dave
McDonald die in a horrifying accident at the Indianapolis "500" in 1964.
Country music star,
Patsy Cline, dies in a plane crash in 1963.
Los Angeles Dodgers
pitcher, Sandy Koufax, in 1966.
John Glenn becomes
the first American to circle the globe in space in 1962.
Boat dock on the Ohio
River in 1965.
College women in
ROTC in 1965.
Martin Luther King is
assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
1968 saw the film, "The
Graduate", become a favorite of older Baby Boomers.
Unrest during the
Democratic National Convention in 1968.
Richard Nixon wins the
presidential race of 1968.
In 1968, student
radicals take over the administration building at Columbia University.
Nazi war criminal,
Adolf Eichmann, is captured in 1961, by Israel, and executed in 1962.
Changing classes at a
Kentucky high school in 1966.
Entertaining friends by
the pool in 1967.
Two friends strolling
through campus , in California, in 1967.
Walter Cronkite was
the most trusted news anchor (CBS) in 1968.
A young couple at their
eighth grade graduation in 1966.
Charles Whitman, the
Texas Tower murderer in 1966.
A neighborhood
baseball game in 1966.
A fifth grade couple
wrestles in 1962.
A cheerleading squad
in this 1967 photo.
Four siblings in this
1964 snapshot.
Three couples prepare
for the 1969 high school prom.
A grade school
baseball game on the last day of school in 1963.
A little boy sits on the
porch in 1965.
An elderly woman
enjoys the spring sun in 1966.
A fifth grade girl enters
the classroom in 1962.
Three children wait for
the bus in 1965.
A fifth grade girl peeks
over her desk in 1963.
Clowning for the
camera in 1964.
A couple and their son
in 1966.
Mothers and their
daughters at a fish fry in 1965.
A mother hangs out the
wash in 1964.
An excited little boy at
Christmas in 1966.
A high school pep
session in 1968.
By 1969, discotheque
dancing was all the rage.
The Soviet Union's
Yuri Gargarin is the first man in space in 1961.
A young third grade
student in 1960.
An army soldier home
on leave in 1961.
A little first grader in
1961.
A young nursing
student in 1963.
Chubby Checker and a
fan, do the twist in 1962.
Jack Murphy, a petty
thief, with "admirers", in 1964.
Laugh-In was a
popular TV comedy, in 1968.
Charlie Manson
arrested for masterminding the murders of Sharon Tate and six others in 1969.
The Monkees began to rival
The Beatles in 1966.
Paul Revere and the Raiders
were tremendously popular in the mid-to-late sixties.
The Andy Griffith Show was the
most popular TV comedy from 1960-1968.
The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo,
shown here in 1965.
Richard Speck kills these eight
Chicago student nurses in July, 1966.
Part of the huge crowd at
Woodstock in 1969.
A young hippie nurses baby
in 1968.
Having fun at an outdoor rock
festival in 1967.
Poster for a rock concert in San
Francisco in 1967.
One of many varied hairstyles for
women in 1966.
Three Cuban women strap guns on their legs and
hijack a plane to the US in 1961.
US Figure Skating champion, Laurie Owens, 16,
dies in a plane crash which killed the entire US skating team in 1961.
In 1960,Chrysler unveils the 1961
Valient which didn't do well in the US.
Nancy Flemming, of Michigan, wins
the 1961 title of Miss America.
Marlene Schmidt of Germany becomes
the 1961 Miss Universe.
In 1961, Roger Maris passes Babe Ruth
for the all-time single season home run record.
The latest fashion in 1960.
Volkswagen--- The car that typified the 1960's
for world youth.
Ernie Kovacs, TV comic genius, is killed in a car crash
in 1962.
Photos of Soviet missles in Cuba starts the Cuban Missle Crisis in 1962.
Mini skirts are popular by 1969.
Beach fun in 1968.
Hippies party in 1969.
High school students clowning around in 1968.
Teenage girls bowling in 1969.
More clowning by teens in 1969.
Shopping
malls spring up all over in the 1960's.
This picture of Jane Fonda turned heads in 1968.
Woodstock, 1969, the greatest rock concert of all time.
Concert goers at Woodstock in 1969.
Three Manson Family members going to court in 1970.
Five of the Charlie Manson Family victims who were murdered in August of 1969.
Girls listening to records in 1960.
1965---The race riots in Watts, California.
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