60’s

1960 USSR shoots down an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union (Gary Powers) John Kennedy wins Presidential Election over Richard Nixon.

1961 Soviet Union puts Yuri Gagarin into space. U.S. established the Peace Corps. Communists constructed the Berlin Wall as a means to keep their people in the east, and to keep western ideas out. Bay of Pigs, unsuccessful attempt to unseat Fidel Castro in Cuba.

1962 Cuban Missile crisis James Meredith Ole Miss. John Glenn in space

1963 JFK assassinated in Dallas November 22 1963 VP Lyndon B Johnson takes over. Martin Luther King Jr. organizes the march on Washington.

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson elected president of the U.S. and began gradually escalating the war effort in Vietnam although he told the public he was de-escalating. Three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi.

1965 British invasion, the Beatles hit America. Malcom X assassinated. Watts riots in Los Angeles.

1966 Militant group the “Black Panthers” founded. N.O.W. founded, (national organization of women)

1967 Height of the “Hippie” movement, the counter culture. Other large cities experience race riots. 25th amendment passed, (succession of the president)

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles Sirhan Sirhan

1968 Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray

1968 Mexico City Olympics American sprinters Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos had their Olympic medals taken away after their medal stand display during the national anthem.

1960’s TV Shows

TV shows of the 60’s Gilligans Island The Andy Griffith Show I Dream of Jeannie I Spy The Twilight Zone Get Smart The Dick Van Dyke Show

In July 1969 the world watched as the United States became the first and the only to go, land, and return safely from the surface of the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were the first men to land on the moon.

Woodstock. In the summer of 1969, more than 400,000 gathered for a rock concert on a farm near Woodstock, New York. Despite mostly terrible weather, the gathering was remarkably peaceful -- sparking raturous talk among some enthusiasts of the new youth culture about the "Woodstock nation."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE .