Robert MacNeil
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Episode Guide
- 1. Television Comes of Age May 29, 2014
- Celebrities describe how television reflected and influenced life during the 1960s.
- 2. The World on the Brink Jun 5, 2014
- Discover how close the U.S. was to World War III during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile crises.
- 3. The Assassination of President Kennedy Jun 12, 2014
- Experts attempt to explain why the investigations remain so compelling and controversial.
As the 1960s began, the major rock 'n' roll stars of the '50s such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard had dropped off the charts and popular music in the U.S. came to be dominated by girl groups, surf music, novelty pop songs, clean-cut teen idols, and Motown music.
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- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1969
What Happened in 1964 History United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. NASA's Mariner 4 space probe successfully approaches Mars and becomes the first spacecraft to take images of a planet from deep space. Sidney Poitier wins the Academy Award for "Best Actor" becoming the first black actor to win that ...
What Happened in 1965 History The Voting Rights Act is signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to perform a space walk. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a peaceful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. The Vietnam War escalates and opposition to it begins to mount as anti-...
What Happened in 1966 History The first episode of the popular television show "Star Trek" airs. The Soviet Union's Luna 9 unmanned spacecraft lands on the Moon. Botswana and Lesotho gain independence from England. Indira Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister of India. The Canada Pension Plan is introduced in Canada.
What Happened in 1967 History Rolling Stone publishes its first magazine issue. The Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs play against each other in the first Super Bowl, with the Packers winning 35 to 10. South African doctor Christiaan Barnard completes the first heart transplant operation. The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ra...
What Happened in 1968 History Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in April by James Earl Ray. Egypt's Aswan Dam is completed. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed into law by President Johnson. Richard Nixon wins the United States presidential election. The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7, is launched by NASA.
What Happened in 1969 History Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to arrive on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission. The Woodstock music festival takes place in New York and features such acts as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and The Who. ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, relays its first communications...
- Television Comes of Age. TV's first interracial kiss was... Pratfalls, and songs and sketches oh my! 5 surprising things that 1960s TV changed. The Smothers Brothers: (Un)censored.
- Cold War: World on the Brink. The Cold War: 5 things you might not know. East versus West, capitalism versus communism: the Cold War lasted from the end of World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- JFK Assassination. 5 things you might not know about JFK's assassination. JFK's Secret Service agent shares guilt. One JFK conspiracy theory that could be true.
- The War in Vietnam. The Vietnam War: 5 things you might not know. Katie McLaughlin, CNN. The Vietnam War began in the decade before, but the conflict, and especially U.S. involvement, escalated in the 1960s.
The Sixties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on May 29, 2014. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman 's studio Playtone, the 10-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s. [1]
EpisodeTitleDateUs Viewers (millions)1"Television Comes of Age"May 29, 2014 (2014-05-29)0.946 [8]2"The World on the Brink"June 5, 2014 (2014-06-05)0.866 [9]3"The Assassination of President Kennedy"June 13, 2014 (2014-06-13)0.765 [10]4"The War in Vietnam"June 19, 2014 (2014-06-19)0.872 [11]" 'The Sixties,' for conservatives, were an explosion of puerile irresponsibility and fashionable rebellion, the wellspring of today's ubiquitous identity politics, debased...
Oct 14, 2016 · This timeline offers a sample of newsworthy happenings from the 1960s. The events used in this interactive timeline were chosen on the basis of importance at the time, and continuing significance...
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The Sixties: With John Heilemann, Tim Naftali, Robert Dallek, Dan Rather. Interviews and archival footage focusing on the politics, music, technical advancements, drugs and the "free love" movement of the 1960s.
