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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT -- Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths JFK elected President Peace Corp program announced Yuri Gargarin, first man in space Bay of Pigs Alan Shepard, first American in space 16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
May 20, 2008 05:36 PM EDT -- November 22, 1963.   12:30 p.m., Central Time, Dealey Plaza. Zapruder testimony article HERE The Presidential car, an open-top, 1961 Lincoln Continental, reached theTexas School . . . more
April 13, 2006 08:23 PM EDT -- In November, 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy beat Richard Milhouse Nixon in a presidential race, undprecented for its extremely narrow popular vote margin. Kennedy was elected president by a substantial electoral . . . more
January 08, 2008 01:31 AM EST -- A collage of JFK photos     On the eve of the 2008 New Hampshire primary, it is most interesting and timely to look at some details of Kennedy's . . . more
February 03, 2008 07:51 PM EST -- Current questions not withstanding, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the one time in history when the U.S. came within a hair's breadth of nuclear war. The Cold War was the paranoia that fueled . . . more
January 30, 2008 11:40 PM EST -- On  April 14, 1962, a Cuban military tribunal convicted 1,179 American Cuban exiles who had participated in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion ofApril 17, 1961, exactly one year earlier. . . . more
March 15, 2008 11:23 AM EDT -- In 1963, segregation was a way of life for the South. On June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace of Alabama came to national prominence when he kept his campaign promise to 'stand in the schoolhouse . . . more
April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT -- The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
April 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT -- I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator. This is from 1989, when a friend joined hundreds of thousands, who helped to tear it down. The piece of the wall is thick concrete, and you can imagine . . . more
October 10, 2006 03:50 AM EDT -- I realize that some Gatherers reading this may be new to Gather and may not always know which groups are for which content. But let me say a few words about my groups. Most of my groups are moderated. . . . more
December 10, 2007 05:43 AM EST -- No history of the 1960s is complete without examining Rosa Parks and her incredible role in the birth of the civil rights movement.   (This is the beginning of a series on The Sixties . . . more
May 04, 2008 08:09 AM EDT -- On September 15, 1963, Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14) and Carole Robertson (14) were in Sunday School at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, when . . . more
April 21, 2006 12:05 AM EDT -- On February 7, 1962 and continuing, President John F. Kennedy announced a trade embargo against Cuban exports into the U.S., making it the longest continuous trade embargo in modern times.   . . . more
April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT -- The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi. That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history.  . . . more
May 16, 2006 02:01 AM EDT -- On May 2, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Abernathy and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth lead a protest march in Birmingham, Alabama. At that time, Birmingham had been one of the most racially segregated . . . more
December 12, 2007 05:16 PM EST -- My mom and I went down to the West side of town, where the old Western Union Pacific railroad used to be, long before the Delta Center was built. I was 11; my mom was 35. We were the only white . . . more
January 04, 2008 05:21 AM EST -- Lunch counter 'sit-in'. The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960. . . . more
February 11, 2008 07:16 AM EST -- The question of what happens with Cuba after Castro relates more to the economy of Cuba than it does to the politics. Fidel Castro at the UN General Assembly, 1960, public . . . more
January 10, 2008 06:35 PM EST -- On April 17th, 1961: 1,500 armed, anticommunist Cuban exiles landed at Playa Giron beach in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, hoping to overthrow the Communist dictatorship government of Fidel Castro. . . . more
April 22, 2006 08:27 AM EDT -- On April 14, 1962, a Cuban military tribunal convicted 1,179 American Cuban exiles who had participated in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 17, 1961, exactly one year earlier. (See "The . . . more
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