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1960’s

1960’s

The 1960s started off as the dawn of a golden age to most Americans. On January 20, 1961, the handsome and charismatic John F. Kennedy became president of the United States. His confidence that, as one historian put it, “the government possessed big answers to big problems” seemed to set the tone for the rest of the decade. However, that golden age never materialized. On the contrary, by the end of the 1960s, it seemed that the nation was falling apart. Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” splintered as the Democratic Party split and America became increasingly enmeshed in the Vietnam War.

Freedom of Information Act in the US is Signed into Law

Freedom of Information Act in the US is Signed into Law

July 4th marks not only the anniversary of America's independence, but also the birthday of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Passed by Congress in 1966, and reluctantly signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on the last day before it would have been pocket-vetoed, FOIA has revolutionized public access to government documents and records. It is used hundreds of thousands of times each year by news organizations, citizens and businesses. The FOIA was initially introduced as the bill S. 1160 in the 89th Congress. When the two-page bill ...
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was Founded in Washington, DC by Communist and Jewish Betty Friedan

The National Organization for Women (NOW) was Founded in Washington, DC by Communist and Jewish Betty Friedan

The National Organization for Women (NOW), an American leftist, feminist organization, was founded in 1966 and consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. This group advocates the unfettered right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to "eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia" from American society; attacks Christianity and traditional religious values; and supports gender-based preferences for women. It's co-founder and first president: Betty Friedan Feminist icon Betty Friedan is credited with starting the modern-day feminist revolution – though some of the original feminists (e.g., Susan ...
Anton Levay Organizes the Church of Satan

Anton Levay Organizes the Church of Satan

On the evening of April 30th, 1966, obviously lasting into the early morning hours of May 1st, Anton Levay holds the first ritual of the Church of Satan. The evening of April 30th is Walpurgis Night, is the eve of the feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia. In Germanic folklore, Walpurgisnacht, also called Hexennacht (Dutch: heksennacht), literally "Witches' Night", is believed to be the night of a witches' meeting on the Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, a range of wooded hills ...
Dr. Homi Bhabha, Father of Indian Nuclear Program, Died when Air India Flight 101 Crashed Near Mont Blanc with a Little Help from the CIA

Dr. Homi Bhabha, Father of Indian Nuclear Program, Died when Air India Flight 101 Crashed Near Mont Blanc with a Little Help from the CIA

Dr. Homi Bhabha (aka: the father of Indian nuclear program) died when Air India Flight 101 crashed near Mont Blanc on 24 January 1966. RT Crowley (1924 - 2000), who was second in command of the CIA's Directorate of Operations and in charge of covert operations, talks about the assassinations of Homi Bhabha, a brilliant Parsi physicist who was the first head of India's Department of Atomic Energy, and of Lal Bahadur Shastri (1/66), who was India's Prime Minister from 1964 to 1966, in an interview revealing that ...
Dr. Carroll Quigley Publishes 'Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time"

Dr. Carroll Quigley Publishes ‘Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”

Carroll Quigley was an insider according to his own words: "I have studied it (secret international network) for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments … I have objected both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies ... but in general my chief ...
The Mysterious Death of TV Personality and Courageous Journalist, Dorothy Kilgallen, who Was Investigating the JFK Assassination

The Mysterious Death of TV Personality and Courageous Journalist, Dorothy Kilgallen, who Was Investigating the JFK Assassination

Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most powerful voices in America. She had a role on the popular TV show, “What’s My Line,” and she was a journalist and author who wrote an insightful gossip column. She especially loved covering high profile murder trials. In fact, she singlehandedly caused Sam Shepard’s murder conviction to be overturned by the US Supreme Court. More important, she was excellent at investigating. She asked incisive — even dangerous — questions. This may have led to her death on November 8, 1965. Dorothy ...
Johnson Signs Medicare into Law

Johnson Signs Medicare into Law

The name "Medicare" was originally given to a program providing medical care for families of individuals serving in the military as part of the Dependents' Medical Care Act, which was passed in 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower held the first White House Conference on Aging in January 1961, in which creating a health care program for social security beneficiaries was proposed. In July 1965, under the leadership of President Lyndon Johnson, Congress enacted Medicare under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide health insurance to people ...
Life Magazine's “Drama of Life Before Birth” was Published

Life Magazine’s “Drama of Life Before Birth” was Published

The editors of Life magazine documented life in the womb in a 1965 cover story featuring a vivid and unforgettable photo display. “Drama of Life Before Birth” was published eight years before the justices struggled with the concept of life’s beginnings. The non-profit Liberty Counsel, which regularly defends the life of the unborn in court, pointed out the feature was “an unprecedented photographic feat for the 1960s” that documented “the stages of growth of an unborn baby from fertilization to 28 weeks.” In the section detailing fertilization, the article states, ...
Paul Harvey's Gives his Popular Speech "If I Were the Devil..." on ABC Radio

Paul Harvey’s Gives his Popular Speech “If I Were the Devil…” on ABC Radio

This speech was broadcast by legendary ABC Radio commentator Paul Harvey on  April 3, 1965: If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I ...
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became Famous after Performing the World's First Walk in Space

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became Famous after Performing the World’s First Walk in Space

On March 18, 1965, Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov became famous after performing the world's first walk in space. "Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-vehicular Activity" is on view at the Museum in Washington, DC January 8 through June 8, 2015. See the exhibition online at http://airandspace.si.edu/eva ...