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(prior to 11/22/63)
President: John F Kennedy, Vice President: Lyndon B Johnson
(11/22/63 until 1/20/65) President: Lyndon B Johnson, Vice
President: None |
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The population of the United States
is 188,483,000 |
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National Debt is 310.3 Billion |
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Unemployment is 5.5% |
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Life Expectancy: 70.1 years |
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Family median income = $6,200 (up
$200. from 1962) |
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Academy Award : Lawrence of Arabia (click to
buy)  (Best
Picture) |
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Grammy Award : I Left My Heart in San Francisco
(click to buy) (Album)
What Kind of Fool Am I (click to
buy)  (Song) |
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Pulitzer Prize : The Reivers (click to buy)
(Fiction) |
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President John F
Kennedy is shot and killed on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX
while riding in a Presidential motorcade(read more
at: Kennedy Assassination pages) |
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President Kennedy's assassin
Lee
Harvey Oswald is arrested several hours later hiding in a
movie theater in Dallas (read more at:
Lee Harvey Oswald page) |
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Oswald is murdered two days later
by Jack Ruby on national TV during his transfer to the County
Jail (read more at: Lee Harvey Oswald page 3) |
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Lyndon Johnson is hastily sworn in
as the 36th President |
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The US has no Vice President until
1965 when Hubert Humphrey was elected |
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Patsy Cline, country music
superstar, is killed in a plane crash along with fellow
performers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that
the poor must have lawyers, paving the way for the Public
Defenders Office |
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The Alcatraz Island federal
penitentiary in San Francisco Bay is ordered shut by Attorney
General Robert Kennedy |
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The longest running soap opera
General Hospital debuts |
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The Coca-Cola Company announces its
first diet drink, TAB cola |
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George C. Wallace is elected
Alabama Governor on a platform which promised racial
segregation |
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ZIP Codes are used for the first
time in the U.S. |
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The United States, United Kingdom,
and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty |
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens
in Canton, Ohio |
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The BBC television series Doctor
Who airs it's first episode |
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Instant Replay was invented by Tony
Verna, a CBS-TV director |
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The Warren Commission is
established by President Johnson to investigate the
assassignation of President Kennedy |
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The first woman in space was
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova aboard the USSR's Vostok 6 spacecraft
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The Beatles release I Want to Hold
Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There, in the US |
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Harvey Ball draws the now iconic
smiley face symbol for an advertising campaign |
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Debuting on television were:
My
Favorite Martian, The Fugitive
and Petticoat Junction |
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In movies a new genre emereged, the
beach movie, with Beach Party being the first of many |
Pop History
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