Our Senior Year 

(What was going on in the rest of the world outside the walls of P.H.S.)

 

 

 

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

John Lennon

 

"The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all those crazy things going on."

Nancy Reagan

 

August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. 

September 15 - The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Mississippi results in 4 deaths and 22 injuries.

Novem ber 22- John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Governor John Connally is seriously wounded, and US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn-in as the 36th President of the United States.

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November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald is mortally shot by Jack Ruby on live national television.

November 24 - Newly sworn in President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

November 25 - President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

November 29 - Lyndon Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

December 4 – Syncom, the world's first geostationary satellite is orbited by NASA and will set the stage for all future satellite communications.

December 4 - Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".

January 3 - Barry Goldwater declares himself a candidate for the Presidency. 

January 11 - For the first time the Surgeon General declares that smoking could be hazardous to your health.

January 13 - I Want to Hold Your Hand by the Beatles is released in the United States and will become their first American hit.

January 16 - Hello Dolly! opens in New York City's St. James Theatre.

January 16 - John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.

January 18 - Plans to build the World Trade Center announced in New York City.

January 23 - Thirteen years after its proposal, the 24th Amendment prohibiting the poll tax in national elections, is ratified.

January 27 - Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.), 66, announces her candidacy for the Repubican nomination for President.

February 7 - A jury trying Bryon De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963 reports in Jackson, Mississippi that it is unable to agree on a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.

February 9 - The Beatles make their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.

March 9 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.

March 14 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.

March 26 - Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announces the U.S. will give South Vietnam increased military and economic aid.

April 20 - President Lyndon Johnson in New York and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.

April 30 - Television sets manufactured as of this date are required to receive UHF channels.

May 2 - Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.

May 19 - The State Department says more than 40 hidden microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

June 21 - Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local segregationist law enforcement officials.