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1960 to 1969: Era of Cold War and Hot Revolution various newspaper articles include a 1960-1969: Timeline of events from the Fort Wayne History Stories about time periods in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

Fort Wayne memories. The '60s / producer, Claudia Johnson ; a production of PBS39 WFWA Fort Wayne, 1999, "Through extensive interviews with many Fort Wayne area residents, old news footage, photographs and home movies, revisit this very significant time in Fort Wayne and American history, marked by new attitudes, technological advances and cultural change." VHS at Allen County Public Library.

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The 1960s were a time of great change in America, and you can revisit that history in the upcoming book “Allen County...

Posted by The News-Sentinel on Thursday, July 19, 2018

Thursday, July 19, 2018 post by The News-Sentinel on Facebook:

The 1960s were a time of great change in America, and you can revisit that history in the upcoming book “Allen County Photo Album 1960-1969,” which features about 200 photos from the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

September 18, 2023 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook:

50 years of candy bars! Which ones have you tried?

Still curious? Explore a 1960s clipping showing some of the candy sold in the U.S. at the time! Hooks Halloween full page advertisement in the The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, Oct 24, 1962, Page 31

1960, April 1 - the first NASA weather satellite images from outer space. RELEASE : 10-072 NASA And NOAA Mark 50 Years Of Weather Watching From Space at nasa.gov. From TIROS-1 to GOES-R Series at l3harris.com which has a Fort Wayne campus.

1960, May 9 - FDA, Food and Drug Administration, approves 1st commercially produced birth-control pill, Enovid-10, a synthetic blend of the female hormones progesterone and estrogen, known as oral contraceptives. See 50th anniversary of the Pill onSmithsonian National Museum of American History blog.

1960, September 12 - the Old Fort Well was dedicated in what was the Old Fort Park located on East Main Street at Clay Street along what is now railroad tracks.

1960, September 21 - Remarks of Vice President Nixon, Allen County Court House, Fort Wayne, IN September 21, 1960 at the Allen County Court House at The American Presidency Project. Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States: 1969 ‐ 1974.

1960, September 26 - the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.

1960, December 1 -

December 1, 2023 post by Scout 80/800's is with Scout Motors on Facebook:

Today. 63 years ago. This happened.

The first Scout rolled out of Door #11 of IH's Assembly Plant in Fort Wayne on 12/1/1960.

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1961 - RCA commercial for color television programing shown during Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color on Sunday evenings during the days of black and white telelvision. The Wonderful World of Color is brought to you by RCA.mp4 uploaded November 27, 2010 by wwodtv.

1961, April 17 - Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and Fidel Castro.

1961, May 4 - a group of Freedom Riders leave Washington, D.C. for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses. They face challenges of attack and burning of a bus in Alabama. They were met with baseball bats and guns, brutal beatings and firebombs, prison cells and chain gangs. They never made it to New Orleans, but they persisted through the summer, until Attorney General Robert Kennedy petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for tougher new laws against segregation. Paraphrased from May 4, 2013 Facebook post by The History Centerfrom Today's Writers Almanac. See videos on National Youth Summit - The Freedom Rides February 9, 2011Smithsonian National Museum of American History blog.

1961, May 5 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he commanded Freedom 7 on the first Mercury mission.

1961, May 20 - a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama were attacked by a white mob, prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.

1961, May 25 - President Kennedy told Congress that the U.S. needed to commit to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" before the end of the decade. The speech inspired one of the most ambitious scientific projects in history. But to land on the moon, you need a map of the moon. Read more about maps & the space race: Maps: The (Bright) Side of the Moon  by Neely Tucker posted September 14, 2021 shared on Facebook May 25, 2022 by The Library of Congress.

1961, July 2 - American author Ernest Hemingway committed suicide.

1961, July 22 - baseball greats Carl Erskine and Jackie Robinson one of two visits to Fort Wayne - the other was July 31, 1962. Notice Dale McMillen is wearing a bowtie in 1961 and a tie in 1962. Celebrating Jackie Robinson Day with Universal Newsreels at the Unwritten Record at The National Archives.

1961 - Carl Erksine and Jackie Robinson "Progress Day" McMillan Park 2,200 boys Wildcat Baseball The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Saturday, Jul 22, 1961, Page 17`

Aaron brought in his newly framed/restored photograph he purchased from us last year...It looks amazing!! 1961 Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine taken in Fort Wayne. ⚾️

Posted by Reclaimed Fort Wayne Salvage Co. on Monday, July 6, 2020

Monday, July 6, 2020 post by Reclaimed Fort Wayne Salvage Co. on Facebook:

Aaron brought in his newly framed/restored photograph he purchased from us last year...It looks amazing!! 1961 Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine taken in Fort Wayne. ⚾️

[ the note on the back of the panorama photo: Wildcat League Progress Day July 22, 1961 McMillen Park Carl Erskine Jackie Robinson ]

We are saddened to hear about the passing of Indiana baseball legend and humanitarian Carl Erskine. A lifelong...

Posted by Indiana State Museum on Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 post by the Indiana State Museum on Facebook:

We are saddened to hear about the passing of Indiana baseball legend and humanitarian Carl Erskine.

A lifelong resident of Anderson, Carl was the last of the storied 1955 World Series Champion Brooklyn Dodgers — the team that became known as “The Boys of Summer.” For his civic leadership, Carl also earned the Indiana Governor’s Sachem Award in 2010.

Our thoughts are with Carl’s family, friends and those who were inspired by his story.

See his July 31, 1962 Fort Wayne visit.

With news of his passing today after 97 years of a life well-lived, we remember Anderson native Carl Erskine. He was...

Posted by Indiana Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 post by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce on Facebook:

With news of his passing today after 97 years of a life well-lived, we remember Anderson native Carl Erskine. He was known for his pitching, but especially for his contributions as a humanitarian.

Read our January/February 2019 BizVoice feature on this Indiana Icon: King of the Hill Carl Erskine Stands Tall in the Game

The staff and board of the Indiana Historical Society were saddened to learn of the passing of Indiana legend Carl...

Posted by Indiana Historical Society on Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 post by the Indiana Historical Society on Facebook:

The staff and board of the Indiana Historical Society were saddened to learn of the passing of Indiana legend Carl Erskine—a man who made his mark not just on the game of baseball, but also in communities across the nation by championing the work of organizations like Special Olympics. We were honored to partner with Ted Green to create a documentary telling the story of Carl’s life and impact, and we will forever be grateful to Carl for allowing us to share his incredible story with the world. We send our condolences to the Erskine family and to all who were impacted by this historic Hoosier. [ The Carl Erskine Story Documentary see Official Trailer - "The Best We've Got: The Carl Erskine Story" on YouTube ]

  1. Carl Erskine, Dodgers pitcher and last surviving member of ‘Boys of Summer,’ dies at 97 Beth Harris, April 16, 2024 APNews
  2. From 1999: Home run derby doesn't bother baseball pioneer Carl Erskine Ben Smith April 16, 2024 The Journal Gazette newspaper. This column first appeared in The Journal Gazette on Aug. 27, 1999.
  3. Ben Smith column: A Boy for all seasons Ben Smith April 18, 2024 The Journal Gazette newspaper has photos and mentions the 1960s Progress Days.

1961, August 13 - East Germany closed the border between East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall was completed.

1961, September 24 or thereabouts Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color was the first color television show on NBC.

1961, October 6 - President Kennedy made a chilling recommendation to the American people on October 6, 1961: build a bomb shelter. See Murland E. Anderson of Fort Wayne who had one featured in Life Magazine article in 1955 after President Truman's warning in 1953 and is now in the Smithsonian Museum. 1961 Life Magazine Fallout Shelters on OneTubeRadio.com. Life Magazine, January 12, 1962 - Bomb shelters on OldLifeMagazines.

October 6, 2023 post by American Experience | PBS on Facebook:

President Kennedy made a chilling recommendation to the American people on October 6, 1961: build a bomb shelter.

As Cold War tensions rose, Kennedy urged citizens to protect themselves against the hazards of nuclear fallout. In a year's time, Americans would prepare to use their shelters during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

JFK urges Americans to build nuclear bomb shelters, Oct. 6, 1961

October 6, 2023 post by HISTORY on Facebook:

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1961, President John F. Kennedy advised American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Take a look at some old advertisements for fallout shelters. President Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb shelters

1961, December 11 - 1st U.S. helicopters arrive in South Vietnam. They were used for patrols, supplies, medics: Vietnam Fighting the War An Airmobile War edited from December 11, 2014 Tweet by American History Museum.

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1962 - Construction begins on the first Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne building. Copied from the 1960-1969: Timeline of events from the Fort Wayne History Stories about time periods in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1962 - Fort Wayne Fired Department first black fireman.

1962, February 10 - a massive fire guts the Wolf & Dessauer store on Washington Boulevard. Copied from the 1960-1969: Timeline of events from the Fort Wayne History Stories about time periods in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1962, July 2 - Walmart opens their first store.

1962, July 31 - baseball greats Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine one of two visits to Fort Wayne - the other was July 22, 1961. Notice Dale McMillen is wearing a bowtie in 1961 and a tie in 1962.

1962 - Wildcat Baseball "Progress Day" Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, Jul 28, 1962, Page 40

Did you know.... In 1962, baseball legends Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Carl Erskine and Bob Feller visited Fort...

Posted by Visit Fort Wayne on Thursday, August 14, 2014

Thursday, August 14, 2014 post by Visit Fort Wayne on Facebook:

Did you know....

In 1962, baseball legends Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, Carl Erskine and Bob Feller visited Fort Wayne for Progress Day. Today, the youth baseball celebration is called Mr. Mac Day held each year by Wildcat Baseball.

Did you know Jackie Robinson visited Fort Wayne several times? Here’s a photo from 1962 in McMillen Park, when he came to celebrate the Wildcat Baseball League.

Posted by Fort Wayne TinCaps on Friday, August 28, 2020

Friday, August 28, 2020 post by the Fort Wayne TinCaps on Facebook:

Did you know Jackie Robinson visited Fort Wayne several times? Here’s a photo from 1962 in McMillen Park, when he came to celebrate the Wildcat Baseball League.

They included this comment: Learn more about Jackie’s trips to Fort Wayne here: Fort Wayne’s Jackie Robinson Connection John Nolan April 15, 2013 on medium.com.

 

Wildcat reaches milestone Everybody plays as 50th season begins by Steve Warden published June 13, 2010 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.

VIDEO: 74 years ago today on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Did you know he visited...

Posted by WANE 15 on Thursday, April 15, 2021

Thursday, April 15, 2021 post by WANE 15 on Facebook:

VIDEO: 74 years ago today on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Did you know he visited Fort Wayne multiple times, including coming to the Summit City with Ted Williams and Bob Feller in 1962 for what is now "Mr. Mac Day?" Check out our half-hour special on May 1 at 7:30 p.m. for more stories like these as we bring you "Summit City's Hardball History" in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Fort Wayne Kekiongas vs. Cleveland Forest Citys game that took place on May 4, 1871 and is regarded as the first-ever professional league game!

Glenn Marini WANE 15 April 15, 2021 VIDEO: It's Jackie Robinson Day! 

Wildcat Baseball 1962- Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine

Wildcat Baseball 1962- Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine June 28, 2023 The Video Factory Fort Wayne
In 1962, Major League Baseball stars Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine visited Fort Wayne to participate in the Wildcat Baseball Progress Day.

1962, October 5 - the Beatles release their first song “Love Me Do,” forever changing modern music. 

1962, October 14 - the Cuban Missle Crises brings the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict when a U-2 spy plane offered incontrovertible evidence that Soviet-made medium-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads were in Cuba. See video Cuban Missle Crises Newsreel and Stock Footage uploaded March 27, 2011 on Public Domain Footage.com on YouTube. At 8:45 AM on October 16, 1962, National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy alerted President Kennedy that a major international crisis was at hand. From WORLD ON THE BRINK JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS THIRTEEN DAYS IN OCTOBER 1962 at the John F.Kennedy Presidential Library. October 22, 1962 President Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba.

1962, November 20 - the Cuban Missile Crisis ends.

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1963 - the Indiana General Assembly gave legal sanction to the Indiana State Seal design and provided an official description (IC 1-2-4). Versions of this pioneer scene have been used on Indiana seals since territorial days. They are found on official papers as early as 1801. A seal was provided for in both the 1816 and 1851 state constitutions. The elements are a woodsman, buffalo, sycamore trees, hills and a setting sun; leaves of the state tree are in the border design. See Indiana State Seal by the Indiana Historical Bureau.

1963 - Centlivre Village

1963 - Komets achieved first Turner Cup 50 years ago Local boy grabbed the puck during celebration by Blake Sebring of The News-Sentinel newspaperApril 23, 2013.

1963 - Big Snow Storm 1963 2-minute video without sound in the WKJG-TV COLLECTION at the Indiana Historical Society. Posted January 31, 2023 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. See WKJG.

1963, March 5 - the hula hoop was patented

1963, March 11 - Indiana a poem by Arthur Franklin Mapes of Kendallville, Noble County, was adopted as the Official State Poem by the Indiana General Assembly. Arthur Franklin Mapes, Poet on Facebook. In March 1977 Mapes was recognized by both chambers of the statehouse as Indiana’s Poet Laureate. An offical poet laureate program did not start until 2005. From Arthur Franklin Mapes ~ Indiana Poet Laureate blog. See also Responsibility of the poet on the 50th anniversary March 11, 2013 by Angela Mapes Turner. Poetry Archive at Arthur Franklin Mapes ~ Indiana Poet Laureate blog includes many poems such as “Arcola”. Was an April 14, 2022 trivia question on the Jeopardy television show.

1963, March 21 - Club Olympia Pool opened. One of only 4 Olympic size pools in Indiana. 1968 Olympic Gold medalist swimmer Sharon Wichman practiced at Club O. The pool was filled in April 28, 2009.

1963, Spring

November 5, 2019 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook:

Do you remember rotary phones? What about party lines? As we approach the anniversary of the push button phone, take a look back on how phone technology has changed!

Telephone Technology: Push Buttons and Party Lines, November 4, 2019, Jenny Ashcraft

1963, June 5 - Dr. Martin Luther King visited Fort Wayne. On June 4, 2012 the newly rebuilt Clinton Street bridge was re-dedicated as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge. His visit was recalled in 2013 in the MLK enterprise ’63 50th anniversary including a video with Hana Stith and Jonathan Ray talking about Fort Wayne history by The Journal Gazette newspaper with links to many other articles but is no longer online.

  1. Exactly 58 years ago today, on June 5, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his only address in Fort Wayne,...

    Posted by The History Center on Saturday, June 5, 2021

    Saturday, June 5, 2021 post by The History Center on Facebook:

    Exactly 58 years ago today, on June 5, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his only address in Fort Wayne, speaking to thousands of residents in the Scottish Rite Auditorium. Not everyone was as welcoming and several individuals expressed their contempt outside the building that night. The following day, the Journal Gazette and the News Sentinel each published two articles covering the event. One of these four articles, provided in its entirety below, included fuller descriptions of the local picketers and examined their rebuff to Dr. King’s message of integration. #sociallyhistory

    News Sentinel, June 6, 1963

    “Dr. King Welcomed By Ovation, Pickets” By Van Lesley

    Dr. Martin Luther King drew a standing ovation from more than 3,000 people when he entered Scottish Rite Auditorium Wednesday evening while five young white segregationist picketed outside. The huge crowd, estimated at about 70 per cent Negro and 30 per cent white, packed the auditorium, for the most part ignoring a group which itself as “Citizens For Equality Through Separation.”

    Picketing the appearance of Dr. King and other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was carried on in an orderly fashion. One picket was removed by police officers for lack of identification. He was taken to the police station and later released after being identified as “Chuck” Edgar, 35, of Cass St.

    The leader of the group, who identified himself as Jack Miller, 1118 Oakdale Dr., said “the Negro is not unequal in the eyes of God, but anthropologists have proven them to be intellectually, morally and emotional inferior.” When questioned as to his opinion of Margaret Mead, a famed anthropologist who concludes these differences do not exist between races, Miller stated he never heard of her. Miller said that “Citizens For Equality Through Separation” is a local group, with about 16 members. “We think the Negro should have equal opportunity, but integration—no, no, no,” the 24-year old group leader claimed. Miller espoused giving the Negro 14 per cent of the land mass of this country for a separate “black state.”

    The pickets were kept under close surveillance by city police and detectives, and did not enter the auditorium. An automobile bearing Virginia license plates with a large Confederate flag flying circled the block several times, but it was not definitely established that it was connected with the pickets. Despite reports that the group was from outside the city, the pickets identified themselves as residents of Fort Wayne and the area. In addition to Miller and Edgar, other picketers were tentatively identified as Robert Miller, 18, 1012 Third St., William Thatcher, 19, 714 Wagner St., Russell Oberly, 32, 213 Mill St., Monroeville and Richard M. Faith, 18, 1807 Tecumseh Ave.

  2. June 5, 2023 dedication of the Pillars of Hope and Justice public art monument.
  3. Civil Rights in Fort Wayne : A Photographic Retrospective virtual tour with several photos on the The History Center web site.
  4. MLK nephew Derek King addresses violence, poverty Urges discipline, awareness, equality June 6, 2013 by Frank Gray archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
  5. January 16, 2023 post by the Genealogy Center on Facebook:

    Today marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In 1963, he paid a visit to Fort Wayne. In the photo, “Dr. King is being met by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy and other integrationist leaders at Baer Field. Second from left is Dr. Allen Wilson, President of the Frontiers Club, which sponsored a Freedom Rally. City Councilman John Nuckols is at left and Rev. Clyde Adams is third from left, who served as general chairman of the rally”. Dr. King received a standing ovation when he entered Scottish Rite Auditorium to begin his speech to the crowd. Lesley, Van (1963, June 6). Dr. King Welcomed by Ovation, Pickets). The News-Sentinel, p. 1D.

1963, June 11 - Governor George Wallace of Alabama confronted federal troops at the University of Alabama defying an order to allow black students to enroll. His inaugural promise was segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

1963, June 25 - President John F. Kennedy makes his Ich bin ein Berliner speech in Berlin, Germany. There is an Urban Legend about this statement: JFK: 'I Am a Jelly Donut' ('Ich bin ein Berliner'). Did JFK really tell Berlin he was a jelly doughnut? from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library tumblr.com. German Myth 6 John F. Kennedy’s 1963 Berlin Speech at About.com.

1963, July 1 - U.S. Post Office introduces 5-digit ZIP codes. IN became the official U.S. Post Office two-letter state code replacing Ind. in the new five-digit ZIP codes to keep up with the growing volume of mail. "ZIP" is "Zone Improvement Plan" The first three digits represent a part of the country, and the last two the post office. In 1983, "ZIP + 4," added a hyphen with first two digits a specific group of streets or cluster of large buildings, and the last two specify one side of the block or floor in a large building. ZIP codes start with zero in the Northeast and get bigger as one moves south and west with more than 42,000 ZIP codes. From When did Indiana change their abbreviation from IND on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. A June 18, 1963 newspaper map was shown in a July 6, 2022 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook.

July 1, 2023 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook:

Ever wonder what the numbers in a ZIP code mean on U.S. addresses? This clipping from 1963 has the answer! ZIP codes went into effect on July 1, 1963.

See the clipping in the Lansing State Journal on our site: https://www.newspapers.com/.../lansing-state.../127141991/

1963, August 28 - March on Washington. I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. 16 minute audio recording of his speech during the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on Smithsonian.com. March on Washington ‘day that shaped my life’ Manchester president recalls participationJust days before the start of my sophomore year at South Side High School in 1963, I sat on the grass of the National Mall, not far from the Lincoln Memorial, near the row of trees that lined the sidewalks on the north. By Jo Young Switzer published August 28, 2013 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.

August 28, 2023 post by The Library of Congress on Facebook:

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where more than 250,000 people came together in the nation's capital to draw attention to Black Americans' continued challenges and inequalities. The two dozen or so color photographs from that day are locked down under expensive licenses, inaccessible to the general public.

However, with the help of the team at the Library and visual historian Jordan Lloyd, we’ve assembled a set of images from the march with no known restrictions, sourced from the Library, the National Archives and the Seattle Municipal Archives. Lloyd has painstakingly restored and recolored the images, bringing these extraordinary scenes from the past into the present.

See more: The March on Washington in Color

August 28, 2023 post by the US National Archives  on Facebook:

The National Archives has numerous records related to the “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” This archival video comes from a series of moving images from the U.S. Information Agency relating to the August 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington. The video shows people walking on sidewalks and crowds gathering on the National Mall and singing We Shall Overcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RT-YSoJhE

#MarchOnWashington #RepresentedInTheArchives

The March on Washington uploaded September 24, 2015 by the US National Archives on YouTube
This archival video comes from a series of moving images relating to the August 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington from the U.S. Information Agency. The video shows people walking on sidewalks and crowds gathering on the National Mall and singing We Shall Overcome.  

August 28, 2023 post by the US National Archives on Facebook:

In March 2008, the Motion Picture Preservation Lab completed a full digital restoration of James Blue’s monumental film, “The March,” to mark the 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom.

In 1963, the U.S. Government tasked Hearst Metrotone News with creating a documentary covering “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” James Blue went out with fourteen sound- and cameramen split into seven teams. They garnered footage from New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, and Washington D.C. Over the course of three days they shot 59,795 feet of film, resulting in more than 11 hours of material. Ultimately, the footage was edited down to 3,021 feet and a runtime of 33 minutes. In 1964, “The March” was screened at film festivals worldwide, including the Venice Film Festival and the Tours Film Festival. The film won grand prizes at the Bilbao Film Festival and Cannes. The March continues to impact audiences today.

The Motion Picture Preservation Lab conducted preservation on this film in 2008. To mark its 50th anniversary, a full digital restoration of “The March” was completed. The original negatives assembled by Blue were scanned and NARA specialists spent three months restoring defects in the image and enhancing the audio track. View the film on the National Archives YouTube page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQYzHIIQ1O4

#MarchOnWashington #RepresentedInTheArchives

I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King .Jr HD (subtitled) November 7, 2017 RARE FACTS on YouTube
I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American history.
Under the applicable copyright laws, the speech will remain under copyright in the United States until 70 years after King's death, through 2038.

August 28, 2023 post by the US National Archives on Facebook:

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators descended upon the nation’s capital to participate in the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” It was the largest demonstration for human rights in United States history.

The idea for the 1963 March on Washington was conceived by A. Philip Randolph, a long-time civil rights activist dedicated to improving the economic condition of Black Americans. He saw the March on Washington as a great opportunity to unify all of the major civil rights organizations and improve economic opportunities.

The event began with a rally at the Washington Monument featuring several celebrities and musicians. Participants then marched the mile-long National Mall to the Memorial. The three-hour-long program at the Lincoln Memorial included speeches from prominent civil rights and religious leaders. The last speaker of the day was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who delivered what became the most famous speech of the entire civil rights era, the “I Have a Dream” speech. The day ended with a meeting between the march leaders and President John F. Kennedy at the White House.

The March on Washington was among the most famous examples of nonviolent mass protests. Even though the march did not accomplish immediate change, it prompted many Americans to reconsider their perspective on the Civil Rights Movement and reaffirmed the strength of American liberal institutions.

https://www.archives.gov/leg.../features/march-on-washington

Image: Civil Rights March, 1963.

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542028

#MarchOnWashington #RepresentedInTheArchives

August 28, 2023 post by the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives on Facebook:

On August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. There, he would give his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.

Jim Wallace, who later became director of the Smithsonian's Office of Printing and Photographic Services, captured this photo of the crowd that day.

From our Smithsonian Institution Archives collections: https://s.si.edu/3qtQbOs

August 28, 2023 post by the Smithsonian on Facebook:

Sixty years ago today, more than 250,000 people from around the country gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Students, union members, unemployed people, and members of organizations such as the NAACP, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and Americans for Democratic Action (seen in this photo carrying the ADA sign) linked arms and raised their voices to sing "We Shall Overcome" and other civil rights songs. This photo by James P. Blair is in the collection of our Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

In a publication distributed before the march, organizers described their demands, which included a call for civil rights legislation, desegregation of all schools, a national minimum wage act, and a broadening of the Labor Standards Act. Written by activists and civil rights leaders Bayard Rustin and Cleveland Robinson, the manual described what motivated the march in words that still resonate today: “We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis. That crisis is born of the twin evils of racism and economic deprivation.”

📷: Collection of our Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jim and Elise Blair, © Estate of James P. Blair

1963, September 16 - the Ku Klux Klan killed 4 young girls when they detonated dynamite on Youth Day at the Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church.

September 16, 2017 post by the Internet Archive  on Facebook:

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1963, November 22 - about 12:30 p.m. President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Although other presidents were highly decorated veterans, John F. Kennedy is the only president awarded a Purple Heart for wounds in combat. The Warren Commission published a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting the president, a conclusion that less than half of all Americans believe. School children, and everyone older, for the rest of their lives remember where they were when they heard the news. Black and white television or radio were the common methods to hear the latest news at designated times during the day. Day long news coverage 24/7 was still decades away in the future.

  1. October 26, 2017 post by the National Museum of American History on Facebook:

    Today, the National Archives and Records Administration released a new set of government records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, news of Kennedy's assassination swept across the country. Photographer Carl Mydans took this photo of commuters on an evening train on the day of the president's death.

    According to his New York Times obituary, Mydans was one of the last photographers to reach LIFE magazine's offices after Kennedy's assassination. Since he was not awarded a clear assignment, Mydans wandered over to Grand Central Station and, on a whim, boarded a train north, headed to Stamford, Connecticut. The emotional intensity of the moment captured in this picture helped make it one of his most memorable images from all his years with LIFE.

  2. November 17, 2013 post by The Journal Gazette on Facebook:

    Where were you the day President John F. Kennedy was killed?

  3. John F. Kennedy Assassinated on Today in History - November 22 at The Library of Congress.
  4. November 22, 2022 post by Phil Moore on Facebook:

    😔 😔 😔 22 November 1963

    Shared November 22, 2022 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.

  5. Life and Death in the White House on Smithsonian National Museum of American History blog.
  6. November 22, 2022 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook:

    These 4 front pages all come from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on November 22, 1963, capturing the unfolding events of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in nearby Dallas. The president had been in Fort Worth earlier that day.

    Explore more newspaper coverage of the Kennedy assassination on our Topic Page: Assassination of John F. Kennedy

  7. November 22, 2023 post by the U.S. Government Publishing Office on Facebook:

    Today marks the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. GPO teammates produced the Warren Commission Report, the only official report on the JFK assassination.

    Read it on GPO’s GovInfo. Report of The President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

1963, November 24 - newspapers announced most government agencies including the post office, business establishments and schools would close Monday November 25 in memory of John F. Kennedy. Grocery stores were closed 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM and drug stores 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. From the front page of the November 24, 1963 The Journal Gazette newspaper.

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1964

Urban renewal projects reshape the Fort Wayne landscape. Copied from the 1960-1969: Timeline of events from the Fort Wayne History Stories about time periods in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1964

Here's an oldie, but a goodie for #TBT! Sections of pavement are poured on a 10-mile section of I-69 in DeKalb County...

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Thursday, May 14, 2015 post by the Indiana Department of Transportation: Northeast on Facebook:

Here's an oldie, but a goodie for #TBT! Sections of pavement are poured on a 10-mile section of I-69 in DeKalb County back in the mid-60s.

Gov. Matthew E. Welsh participated in a ribbon-cutting opening the new section on Sept. 19, 1964. At that time, the section was the newest and completed 33 miles of expressway from U.S. 24 west to U.S. 6. 

1964, February 9 - the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show. Listen to a 9 minute audio with a local resident and WOWO's Bob Chase recalling Beatlemania: 50 years since The Beatles landed in the United States Local residents recall the Fab Four reached people like no other band before or since published January 17, 2014 in The News-Sentinel newspaper. Read about their Feburary 11, 1964 concert in Washington D.C. : http://life.time.com/culture/the-beatles-photos-from-the-fab-fours-first-american-concert-1964/#ixzz2WgUcRW6p

1964, March 10 - The highest recorded March snowfall fell at 12.6 inches.

1964, June 18 - The Civil Rights Act is passed by the Senate and outlaws discrimination and segregation in voting, education, and public facilities. Overturning Jim Crow laws. It was first proposed in 1963 by President Kennedy, LBJ - President Lyndon Johnson put forward a more robust version the following year outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and signed it July 2, 1964. See photo LBJ Signs the Civil Rights Act on The National Archives Presidential Libraries tumblr.

1964, July 2 - Civil Rights Act (1964) This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. Copied from the Civil Rights Act (1964) at The National Archives.

July 2, 2023 post by Indiana Historical Bureau on Facebook:

#OTD in 1964, House Minority Leader Charles Halleck (R-IN), after a phone call with President Lyndon B. Johnson, marshalled 136 Republican representatives to join 153 Democrats to ensure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A few hours after House approval, President Johnson signed the historic act, which prohibited segregation in public areas like theaters, pools, and schools, and banned discriminatory employment practices. Learn more through this JFK Library oral history interview with Halleck: https://bit.ly/jfkhalleck

This 1974 portrait of Charles Halleck was painted by William Sabol and is courtesy of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through our educational platform, DocsTeach, you can...

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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Through our educational platform, DocsTeach, you can interact first-hand with this milestone document that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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July 2, 2024 post by the US National Archives  on Facebook:

Join us in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a historic law that prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, this legislation not only ended segregation in public places but also banned employment discrimination, laying the foundation for a more inclusive nation. The act's passage was a monumental victory for the Civil Rights Movement, led by dedicated activists who fought tirelessly for equality.

Learn more in our Milestone Documents page: Civil Rights Act (1964)

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On this day in 1964 the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. GPO employees produced the legislation. See it on GPO’s GovInfo. PUBLIC LAW 88-352-JULY 2, 1964

1964, September 3 - The Beatles played at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. See RetroIndy: The Beatles at the 1964 Indiana State Fair published September 3, 2013 on IndyStar.com.

1964, November 12 - the Rolling Stones rock and roll band visited local television host Ann Cologne and her photographer Stephen Perfect took photos. A photo of the newspaper review first published November 12, 1964 in the Amusements section From the archives: Singers Rock Coliseum by Marjorie Barnhart re-published November 7, 2014 in The News-Sentinel newspaper archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The 50th anniversary was remembered at a University of Saint Francis exhibit in its Weatherhead, Goldfish and Spotlight galleries in the School of Creative Arts November 8 through December 21, 2014 described in USF Exhibition Spotlighting Contemporary Painting Rolling Stones Fort Wayne Visit Photos September 30, 2014 on the university web site. A Stephen Perfect interview video and Don Chevillet audio are included in 50 years ago, the Rolling Stones rocked Fort Wayne WATCH: Photographer Stephen Perfect talks about historic visit by James Grant published November 7, 2014 in The News-Sentinel newspaper archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

1965

Glenbrook Square opens and the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo opens. Copied from the 1960-1969: Timeline of events from the Fort Wayne History Stories about time periods in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1965, February 9 - the U.S. first sent troops into South Vietnam. From February 9, 2015 Life magazine Tweet.

1965, March 18 - first ever spacewalk by Soviet cosmonaut Alexsei Leonov and three months later American astronaut Edward White. Read more Learning to Spacewalk A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration-and terror-of his first space mission by Alexei Leonov published January 2005 in Air & Space Magazine.

1965, March 21 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and followers begin their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

1965, April 11 - Palm Sunday tornadoes. 137 people killed and more than 1,200 injured in Indiana from nearly 50 tornadoes. 50 years ago, Palm Sunday tornadoes devastated swaths of Indiana by Kevin Kilbane published April 10, 2015 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.

Today marks the 47th anniversary of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, which occurred on April 11, 1965. 47 tornadoes...

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Today marks the 47th anniversary of the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak, which occurred on April 11, 1965. 47 tornadoes killed 271 people and injured more than 1,500 others in what remains one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.

 

Over a 12 hour span, 47 tornadoes in 6 states, 4 dozen counties, 1,500 people injured, and 271 lives lost. April 11, 1965, Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak > Indianapolis, IN and April 11th 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak > Northern Indianaat the Weather.gov .

ON THIS DAY // On Palm Sunday April 11,1965 nearly 50 tornadoes swept the Midwest. The worst of the damage struck in...

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ON THIS DAY // On Palm Sunday April 11,1965 nearly 50 tornadoes swept the Midwest. The worst of the damage struck in Indiana, affecting 20 counties. The Palm Sunday tornadoes were the third largest outbreak of twisters in U.S. history, ranking behind only the 1974 Super Outbreak and the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. During his four-state tour of the tornado damage the week the storms hit, President Lyndon B. Johnson visited several survivors.

1965, May 7

⭐ ON THIS DAY ⭐ On May 7, 1965, Bob Hope visited Fort Wayne to perform at the Memorial Coliseum.

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⭐ ON THIS DAY ⭐

On May 7, 1965, Bob Hope visited Fort Wayne to perform at the Memorial Coliseum.

1965, June 7 - After hearing the case Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law banning the use of birth control. See A Timeline of Contraception at American Experience PBS.org. Griswold v. Connecticut at Oyez LII Supreme Court Resources Justia Supreme Court Center and Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) at JUSTIA US Supreme Court. Before the critical 1965 Supreme Court ruling Griswold v. Connecticut, state and federal morality laws prohibited access to contraceptives, even to married couples from The Revolutionary 1965 Supreme Court Decision That Declared Sex a Private Affair A Smithsonian curator of medicine and science looks back to the days when police could arrest couples for using contraception by Alexandra M. Lord posted May 19, 2022 in At the Smithsonian from an October 8, 2022 on Facebook.

1965, July 3 - the Ft. Wayne Children's Zoo opened on 5 1/2 acres in Franke Park. Over 6,000 people came on the first day to see the 18 animal exhibits. From July 3, 2014 post on Indiana Historical Bureau on Facebook. Many photos were posted on July 3, 1965: Fort Wayne Children's Zoo opens by Corey McMaken published April 25, 2019 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.

1965, July 30 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Act (1965) into law providing access to health care for millions of seniors and those with disabilities. This removed a heavy financial burden from families allowing more people to live longer, healthier more independent lives. On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid Act, also known as the Social Security Amendments of 1965, into law. It established Medicare, a health insurance program for the elderly, and Medicaid, a health insurance program for people with limited income. In 1965, the passage of the Social Security Amendments, popularly known as Medicare and Medicaid, resulted in one basic program of health insurance for persons aged 65 and older, and another program providing health insurance for people with limited income funded by state and federal sources, respectively. It was funded by a tax on the earnings of employees, matched by contributions by employers, and was well received. In the first three years of the program, nearly 20 million beneficiaries enrolled in it. Copied from the Medicare and Medicaid Act (1965) at The National Archives.

1965, August 2

As you're watching the NCAA tournament on your 65-inch 4K television... here's a reminder of what TV was once like! This...

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As you're watching the NCAA tournament on your 65-inch 4K television... here's a reminder of what TV was once like! This was a letter WANE-TV sent out in 1965 when the station started broadcasting in color.

We also dug up some archives and found a photo of the technology around that time!

1965, August 6

August 4, 2023 post by the US National Archives on Facebook:

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, making it illegal to impose restrictions on federal, state, and local elections designed to deny the vote to Black Americans.

The Voting Rights Act had an immediate impact. By the end of 1965, a quarter of a million new Black voters had been registered, one-third by federal examiners. By 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was readopted and strengthened in 1970, 1975, and 1982.

Learn more about the Voting Rights Act from our primary source documents:

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1965, October 3 - at the base of the Statue of Liberty, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration Act of 1965 into law. It abolished the quota system of the National Origins Act of 1924 which barred Asian immigrants, limited Latin American immigrants, and established rigid immigration quotas for European countries. See Fifty Year Later: A Brief History of the Immigration Act of 1965 by Jessie Kratz post September 17, 2015 on The National Archives Prologue: Pieces of History blog.

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1966

The Pennsy depot was razed in 1966. In its final years it was owned by Grieger Chevrolet; its lot used to store used cars. From The Pennsy Shops by Kevin Leininger from the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1966, February 3 - Broadway Ave - natural gas explosion .

1966, February 4 - Stockberger Machinery - Bash Building on the Landing fire - Fire Police City County Federal Credit Union calendar.

1966, March 24 - the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia Board of Electors, that poll taxes for any level of election were unconstitutional. From Recalling an Era When the Color of Your Skin Meant You Paid to Vote Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a ruling that made the poll tax unconstitutional by Allison Keyes published March 18, 2016 on Smithsonian.com.

1966, April 13 - The Uniform Time Act of 1966 “to promote the observance of a uniform system of time throughout the United States” was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Before 1966, time was essentially anything governments or businesses wanted it to be. The History of Daylight Saving Time at National Geographic News. Uniform Time at Transportation.gov. Uniform Time Act on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Watch one hour CSPAN video on the book Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Savings Time by Michael Downing.

1966, June 13 - Miranda rights established

1966, August 23 - discussed April 6, 2024 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook

August 23, 2019 post by The History Center on Facebook.

Exactly 53 years ago today, on August 23, 1966 the work day began normally for the employees in the administration building of Phelps Dodge Copper Products. All of this normalcy ended at 12:05 PM when a gas explosion destroyed the building on New Haven Avenue. The force of the explosion caused the first and second floors of the center of the building to collapse into the basement. In total 7 (5 employees and 2 rescue workers) lost their lives and 19 employees were injured as a result of the explosion. The casualties would have been higher, except the lunch hour for the employees began at 11:40 AM, leaving most of the building empty at the time of the explosion. Today we remember and honor the victims one of the deadliest disasters in Allen County. #sociallyhistory

See 18 photos in the Aug. 23, 1966: Phelps Dodge office explosion by Corey McMakin published January 30, 2020 in the History Journal features and stories of historical interest from the archives of The Journal Gazette.

1966, October 15 - Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act. That same year, the DNR director became Indiana’s first State Historic Preservation Officer to carry out the Act’s liaison responsibilities. By 1969, Indiana’s first survey of historic sites and structures was conducted and the General Assembly authorized DNR to participate in the National Register Program. This authorization launched what would become the Indiana DNR Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology. In 1973, the Division of Museums and Memorials became the Division of Historic Preservation. In 1981, the General Assembly established the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology within the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to carry out the federal-state partnership of the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act. Learn more about the Indiana dhpa at dnr.IN.gov/historic-preservation. Copied from an October 15, 2022 post by Indiana Department of Natural Resources on Facebook. This act lead to the National Register of Historic Places.

  1. National Historic Preservation Act National Historic Preservation Act at National Park Service. First two paragraphs: After World War II, the United States seemed poised at the edge of a limitless future, and its vision of progress was characterized by the sleek and the new. Urban renewal was seen as a way to clear out the slums, get rid of "obsolete" buildings, make space for an exploding population, and accommodate the burgeoning car culture. Wide swaths were demolished: entire blocks, neighborhoods, business districts, all razed to make way for the new. By the 1960s, urban renewal had altered the face of the nation's cities. But out of this wholesale erasure of the old grew the most important law governing how we treat those places that define our past: the National Historic Preservation Act. It was the first national policy governing preservation and it would shape the fate of many of our historic and cultural sites over the next half-century. There had been earlier measures to foster preservation—the Antiquities Act of 1906 and the Historic Sites Act of 1935—but none were as sweeping or as influential as the National Historic Preservation Act.
  2. National Historic Preservation Act October 15, 1966 at Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has the 52 page: The National Historic Preservation Act As amended through December 16, 2016 and Codified in Title 54 of the United States Code.
  3. National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 was passed primarily to acknowledge the importance of protecting our nation’s heritage from rampant federal development. It was the triumph of more than a century of struggle by a grassroots movement of committed preservationists statement at National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO).
  4. 49 page The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended at gsa.gov.
  5. 5 page: Public Law 89-665-Oct. 15, 1966 at govinfo.gov.

1966, December 26 - Kwanzaa first celebrated. An African-American and Pan-African cultural holiday. The name Kwanzaa comes from a Swahili phrase meaning "first fruits," and the first-fruits celebration is recorded in African history from as far back as ancient Egyptian times. Kwanzaa is now a weeklong celebration of African culture and unity that started during the Black Freedom Movement in the United States. It is also celebrated in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, particularly in Brazil, and in African communities within Europe. Kwanzaa was founded by Dr. Maulana Karenga, who made the holiday cultural rather than religious so that people of all faiths could come together and celebrate.Copied from a December 26, 2012 post by The History Center on Facebook.

1967

Southtown Mall opens from the 1960-1969: Timeline from the Fort Wayne History archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1967

Can You Guess? 1960s Prices

How much did a blender cost in the 1960s? What about a house? Find out how prices have changed in the past 6 decades for 5 familiar items! Still curious? Check out this clipping from 1967 showing different blenders and how much they cost! https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-blender-revolution-196/145240102/

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Can You Guess? 1960s Prices

How much did a blender cost in the 1960s? What about a house? Find out how prices have changed in the past 6 decades for 5 familiar items!

Still curious? Check out this clipping from 1967 showing different blenders and how much they cost! Blender Revolution, 1967 The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, Thursday, December 14, 1967, Page 21

1967, January, 27 - a flash fire aboard the Apollo 1 test capsule took the lives of Gus Grissom and two other astronauts.

1967, February 10 - ratification of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment established procedures for the succession of the Presidency in the event of a vacancy in the office of President or Vice President. Copied from The 25th Amendment: Succession of the Presidency by Jessie Kratz published February 10, 2017 on The National Archives Prologue: Pieces of History blog. See arrest warrant posted June 12, 2017 by The National Archives on Facebook State of Virginia, County of Caroline Commonwealth Warrant of Arrest vs. Mildred Jeter at The National Archives. Indiana Senator Birch Bayh authored the ammendment and served in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. See March 14, 2019 post the day Birch Bayh died by Indiana Historical Society  on Facebook. Bayh authored the failed Equal Rights Amendment and was considered the Father of Title IX. Copied from Birch Bayh, former Indiana senator, Title IX author, dies at 91 by John Tuohy, Maureen Groppe, Shari Rudavsky and Vic Ryckaert, published March 14, 2019 in the Indianapolis Star newspaper. IU alumnus Birch Bayh was the author of two constitutional amendments — the only lawmaker to do so since the Founding Fathers. Copied from a March 14, 2019 post by Inside IU on Facebook.

1967, June 12 - a landmark civil rights ruling Loving v. Virginia the U.S. Supreme Court rules interracial marriages are legal, over ruling 16 states which outlawed marriage based on race. Indiana in 1965 became one of 14 states that repealed laws outlawing interracial marriage prior to the ruling. Read more on Marriage Across Racial Lines in Indiana on JSTOR, Wikipediaand photos on NPR.

1967, October 2 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, becoming the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court.

1967, October 21 - nearly 100,000 people gather in D.C. to protest the war effort in Vietnam. October 21, 2014 Tweet by American History Museum on Twitter.

1967, November 20

November 20, 2023 post by the U.S. Census Bureau on Facebook:

#FunFact: On November 20th, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the U.S. population reached 200 million.

Learn more about other significant milestones and events from the 1960s and other decades since 1790: https://www.census.gov/.../fast_facts/1960_fast_facts.html

#CensusHistory #CensusData #OTD #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInHistory

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1967, November 24

Fort Wayne residents of a certain age (Ok Boomers, I'm looking at you) will remember The Swingin' Gate at 224 West Berry...

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Atlanta Journal Constitution, Saturday April 29, 1967 newspaper article. Image of a Local ad for The Who's appearance at Fort Wayne's The Swingin' Gate in November 1967, solicited a ticket stub photo from John R. Scheele who also has the front door.

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1968

New Allen County Public Library is dedicated. Copied from the 1960-1969: Timeline from the Fort Wayne History archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1968 - Indiana Vocational and Technical College comes to Fort Wayne - was established on March 15, 1963 from Happy 50th, Ivy Tech published March 18, 2013 in The Journal Gazette newspaper Editorials.

1968, February 8 - Jefferson Public School, Fort Wayne, Indiana is where actor Charleton Heston claimed he learned to read and write in the movie Planet of the Apes.

1968, March 1 - U.S. Representative J. Edward Roush from nearby Huntington, Huntington County, who represented our area in Washington D.C., sponsored the federal legislation to establish a nationwide 911 emergency phone system. Various attempts for such a system had been around for some time. He made the first 911 call for AT & T from his hometown. Read A congressional salute for Rep. Roush, 911's driving force published February 17, 2018 in The Journal Gazette newspaper. By 1979, 26% of the U.S. population could dial 911. This increased to 50% by 1987 and 93% by 2000. As of December 2017, 98.9% of the U.S. population has access. See 9-1-1 on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Huntington became the first American city served by the AT&T-owned Bell System to receive 911 discussed in 9-1-1, born in Huntington, turns 50 years old published March 1, 2018 on CBS WANE-TV NewsChannel 15. June 3 2018 copies of a series of newspaper articles beginning with an article in the November 5, 1976 The News-Sentinel newspaperdiscussing 911 coming to Fort Wayne through the 1980 and 1990s were posted in You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.

1968, April 4 - Civil Rights leader the Reverand Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated  while standing on the balcony outside his second-story Lorraine Motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. Robert F. Kennedy was in Indianapolis and shared the sad news with the crowd from RetroIndy: Bobby Kennedy on the day Martin Luther King died RFK was in Indianapolis and broke the news to crowd; he was dead 2 months later - from IndyStar.com. He won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize - see his biography on Nobelprize.org.

1968, April 7 - Palm Sunday and more than 3,000 people gathered outside Allen County Courthouse after a six-block march from Pilgrim Baptist Church on Gay Street. The Journal Gazette’s story the next morning noted the peaceful procession was a contrast to rioting happening in many major cities such as Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Copied from Local tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Throwback Thursday published March 29, 2018 with photos in The Journal Gazette newspaper.

1968, April - Robert F. Kennedy's fledgling presidential campaign this month in 1968, one state loomed large--Indiana, where he tested his candidacy for the first time with voters and against fellow U.S. senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota.

April 9, 2023 post by Ray E. Boomhower on Facebook:

For Robert F. Kennedy's fledgling presidential campaign this month in 1968, one state loomed large--Indiana, where he tested his candidacy for the first time with voters and against fellow U.S. senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota.

According to RFK adviser (and Hoosier) John Bartlow Martin, "everybody knew that Indiana was for him [Kennedy] the big one. It never had been important before, at least not in my time, but this year it was critical, since it produced the first contest between him and McCarthy.

In a discussion with his advisers, RFK said he thought the best argument he could make with Hoosier politicians was to say that "Indiana is my West Virginia," referring to his brother's important win in the West Virginia primary in 1960, showing JFK could win a Protestant state.

RFK noted that JFK had never forgotten that West Virginia went for him in the primary and after he was elected president he had given the state "handouts till hell would have it," Martin recalled.

"He went on to say that he ought to be saying that himself," said Martin. "I opposed. I argued that it was alright for others and even for him to say it privately to politicians whose support he needed but that he must not say it publicly because he might lose, especially in a three-cornered race with McCarthy and [Indiana governor Roger] Branigin, or at least not do well, and so he should not stake so much on this one primary."

"He demurred, saying the press would play it that way anyway," Martin recalled. "In the end he did not say publicly 'This is my West Virginia' but he increasingly hammered the theme that this primary was important and that 'Indiana can help choose a President,' This was his own formulation; toward the end he used it in nearly every speech."

1968, April 10 - Robert F. Kennedy resumed his campaign to win Indiana's Democratic presidential primary with appearances at three cities--Fort Wayne, Columbus, and Terre Haute.

April 9, 2023 post by Ray E. Boomhower on Facebook:

OTD in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy resumed his campaign to win Indiana's Democratic presidential primary with appearances at three cities--Fort Wayne, Columbus, and Terre Haute.

With the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., both Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy took some time to regroup, suspending their campaigns to attend King’s funeral in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kennedy’s staff realized just how critical the Indiana primary would be for the candidate’s chances for the Democratic nomination. “I remember when we moved out in Indiana the theory was, ‘God, well, you know, if we lose Indiana we lose everything,’” noted William Haddad.

RFK reiterated the importance of the Indiana primary for his campaign. “We can win it here in the state of Indiana,” he told a crowd in Fort Wayne. “If we can win it here, we can go on to win in Oregon, win in California and win at the convention because of your help.”

In Columbus RFK attempted to win over an older audience with jokes, telling them that in a poll of his ten children he had received only four votes. “Two votes went to my brother Teddy. Two went to my sister Pat. The others were reassessing their position,” said Kennedy.

During his three-hour stop in Columbus, RFK visited two farms located northeast of the city. "We had sandwiches and coffee available for everybody," said one farm wife, "but he [Kennedy] wanted milk."

While in Columbus, Kennedy had pronounced Indiana as “Indianer.” On a subsequent campaign later stops in the state, Kennedy noted that he was delighted to be in “In-dee-an-uh.“There was some fellow from Massachusetts that was here the other day that called it ‘Indian-er.’ That was my younger brother Teddy. He looks like me. But I call it Indian-uh! And we’re going to elect a President of the United States that knows how to pronounce the name of this state!”

Speaking in Terre Haute, Kennedy made a plea he repeated time and time again while in the state: "I need your help. I need your hand. With your assistance and your hand over the next four weeks we'll win in Indiana."

According to a report in the Terre Haute Tribune, about 5,000 people "hailed him at Hulman Field, lined along the streets for several miles, and jammed into the Courthouse square."

When he arrived at the local airport, RFK saw a sign with a picture of him on it bearing the words: "Help Beautify America: Get a Haircut." Kennedy grinned and said: "I'm so interested in winning in Indiana, I'm having my hair cut."

RFK stayed overnight at the Ramada Inn in Terre Haute, leaving at 11 a.m. April 11 after talking to a Housewives for Kennedy breakfast meeting. With Indiana governor Roger Branigin in mind, RFK said, "I would not like to see Indiana waste its votes. Make yours count."

To the Housewives for Kennedy Committee, RFK said that the two hardest tasks facing the country's social agenda were providing for jobs and housing for the nation's poor. Also, it was the country's duty to have jobs available for soldiers upon their return from Vietnam. "They have to have jobs when they come back. We can't ask a man to fight for us and not have a job for him when he comes back," said Kennedy. "We can do much better than we have in the past, and that's why I run for President of the United States. I think we can do much better."

In his remarks during his time in Terre Haute, Kennedy also addressed King's assassination. He called King's death "one of those huge events that signals a turning point in our country's history."

"It could be the beginning of a final successful effort to make one nation of all our people--equal in justice and equal in opportunity, or it could foretell a continuing civil strife which threatens to transform our cities into armed camps and our streets into passageways for violence and fear," Kennedy said.

"Leaders can explain and propose," Kennedy continued, "but this problem will not yield to any man--even the President of the United States. It will yield only to the moral energy and belief of a free people." 

1968, April 11 - one week after the assination of Martin Luther King, Jr, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (protecting civil rights workers, expanding the rights of Native Americans and providing antidiscrimination measures in housing) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1968, April 13

September 20, 2023 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook:

Did you know the U.S. had 3 presidents in the same year? Twice! In 1881, Chester A. Arthur became the third president that year when he was sworn in on September 20, 1881.

In March, Rutherford B. Hayes had finished up his term, but James A. Garfield, who succeeded him, was shot in July, and he passed away from complications on September 19. His vice president, Chester A. Arthur, then became president.

The other time 3 presidents served in a year was 1841, when William Henry Harrison died in office.

See this 1968 clipping in the Buffalo News on our site: The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York, Saturday, Apr 13, 1968, page 19

1968, April 23 - Senator Robert F. Kennedy had a presidental campaign stop in Fort Wayne, one of three times he visited Fort Wayne in 1968. He repeatedly visited Fort Wayne and most of Indiana's other large cities before he won the May 7 Indiana primary election. From A lingering loss 50 years after assassination, what-ifs swirl around RFK Editorial published June 5, 2018 in The Journal Gazette newspaper. On one of his stops in 1968 Kennedy visited Zoli's on Broadway and sent owner Zoltan Herman a note thanking the staff for “the best food I ever ate”. Copied from KEVIN LEININGER: If you like food and history, new look at Fort Wayne’s past gives you something to devour published April 11, 2019 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1968, May 6 - Robert F. Kennedy visits Fort Wayne shown in the photo archives posted May 16, 2013 by Visit Fort Wayneon Twitter. More photos and information When Indiana mattered Book examines Robert Kennedy's historic 1968 primary victory published March 30, 2008 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.

1968, June 5 - Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot and fatally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is immediately arrested. WhatWasThere.com has map and photo of the hotel. Fort Wayne is mentioned on the Robert Francis Kennedy Attorney General of the United States U.S. Senator - Presidential Candidate page on an Arlington National Cemetery website.

1968, October 24 - Sharon Wichman wins Fort Wayne's first olympic gold medal in the 200 breast stroke. See our Sharon Wichman page.

1968, June 28 - Public Law 90-363 H.R. 15951. Statement by the President Upon Signing the Uniform Holiday Bill. by Lyndon B. Johnson 36th President of the United States: 1963 ‐ 1969 on The American Presidency Project. Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act which made Memorial Day a federal holiday that always landed on the last Monday of May starting in 1971. The act also created or moved three other federal holidays to be on Mondays: Washington’s Birthday (often referred to as Presidents Day), Columbus Day, and Veterans Day. Veterans Day was later returned to its original set date of November 11. The holidays were moved in part to allow workers in the country to enjoy long weekends. In signing the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, President Lyndon B. Johnson hoped to encourage Americans to use the time for leisure. Copied from Why Memorial Day was moved to always be on Monday by Jacque Porter May 30, 2022 in Nexstar Media Wire and CBS WANE-TV NewsChannel 15.

1968, November 9 - midwest earthquake

November 9, 2018 post by Indiana Historical Bureau on Facebook:

On November 9, 1968, a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indiana and was felt in at least 20 states. The epicenter of the earthquake was just ten miles from the Indiana - Illinois border, near Mt. Vernon. Although there were no injuries reported, structural damage included cracked sidewalks in Terre Haute, damaged chimneys in Princeton, and broken windows in New Harmony.

Learn more about the damage caused by the earthquake ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1968 VOL. 90 NO. 311 PAGE 1A QUAKE DAMAGE MINOR; FELT OVER WIDE AREA IN MIDWEST AND EAST. The image is courtesy of the Indianapolis Star.

Their November 9, 2022 post by Indiana Historical Bureau on Facebook:

On November 9, 1968, a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indiana and was felt in at least twenty states. The epicenter of the earthquake was just ten miles from the Indiana—Illinois border, near Mt. Vernon.

Although there were no injuries reported, structural damage included cracked sidewalks in Terre Haute, damaged chimneys in Princeton, and broken windows in New Harmony.

Learn more about the earthquake here: The south-central Illinois earthquake of November 9, 1968: Macroseismic studies at Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America on GeoScienceWorld.org. [ The largest earthquakes in Indiana history WRTV ]

The image below, showing a seismograph printout of the earthquake, is from the November 10, 1968, issue of the Indianapolis Star.

 

[ Their image is at 1968 - A Shook-Up Look - seismogram of the Indiana Genealogical Survey The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday, November 10, 1968, Page 48.

Front page: 1968 - Quake Center in Indiana? - Nixon Death Plot Bared in Brooklyn The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday, November 10, 1968, Page 1. Alternate front page headline: 1968 - Nixon Death Plot Exposed - Quake Jolts Indiana, 19 Other States The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday, November 10, 1968, Page 1.

1968 - Quake Felt in Indiana (continued) The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sunday, November 10, 1968, Page 10. ]

November 9, 2023 post by Indiana Historical Bureau on Facebook:

#OTD in 1968, a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indiana and was felt in at least twenty states. The epicenter of the earthquake was just ten miles from the Indiana-Illinois border, near Mt. Vernon. Although there were no injuries reported, structural damage included cracked sidewalks in Terre Haute, damaged chimneys in Princeton, and broken windows in New Harmony.

Read more about the earthquake here: 22 STATES STRUCK BY STRONG QUAKE; Wide Area From Minnesota to Carolina Hit by Tremor requires The New Times Machine to read!

The isoseismal map below of the 1968 earthquake is courtesy of the Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal.

1968, November 30 - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County: Webster street building, presentation of McMillen globe, 30 November 1968. showing Allan Tremper, library board member at rostrum, and official party: Dale McMillen jr., Mrs Dale McMillen sr., Dale McMillen sr., Harold McMillen. Wildcat League (donors of globe) officials in front row. Photographs at Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Library.

1969

Fort Wayne in 1969 published July 19, 1969 by WANE 15 News on YouTube.
WANE 15 took a look back at what Fort Wayne was like in 1969, the year of the Moon Landing

1969 - gasoline prices were 29 cents a gallon when mechanical gasoline pumps could not go above 99 9/10 cents per gallon.

February 12, 2013 post by Dead Fred's Genealogy Photo Archive on Facebook

1969, March 11 - Levi-Strauss starts selling bell-bottomed jeans

1969, March 28 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States and World War II hero, dies at age 78.

1969, July 12 - the first annual Three Rivers Festival begins. See our Three Rivers Festival page.

1969, July 17 - 36 year old patrolman Kenneth Stiverson died by gunfire during a distrubance call with 11 years service, the second police office killed while serving with the Fort Wayne Police Department. From Fallen officer added to national memorial by Rod Hissong published May 14, 2013 formerly on CBS WANE-TV NewsChannel 15. On the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1969, July 19 - Apollo 11 and its astronauts orbit the moon.

Original grainy television broadcast images of Apollo 11 Man on the Moon archival footage by PublicDomainFootageJan 25, 2022 on YouTube

1969, July 20 - July 20, 2022 post by US National Archives  on Facebook states: the “Eagle” landed on the Moon, and American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to set foot there. The American effort to send astronauts to the Moon had its origins in an appeal President Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." The flight plan for Apollo 11 detailed the activities of the mission crew minute by minute. The flight launched on July 16, 1969, touching down on July 20, 1969. It took 102 hours, 47 minutes, and 11 seconds from launch to landing. The astronauts spent 21 hours and 36 minutes on the Moon and returned to Earth on July 24. Learn more about the Apolo 11 flight plan and discover additional resources: National Archives News Anniversary of Apollo 11, Image: Apollo 11 Flight Plan.

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing was televised worldwide and watched by 500-600 million, becoming a major cultural touchstone of the 1960s. See several videos from Today's Document on tumblr from the The National Archives. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Astronaut Neil Armstrong uttered these now-famous words after descending from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and becoming the first person to walk on the moon! Armstrong went to Purdue University and was born near Wapakoneta, Ohio which honors their hometown hero at an annual Summer Moon Festival. See two minute video Apollo 11 Moonwalk Montage, from Smithsonian.com, when on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. The Women Who Brought Us the Moon by Nathalia Holt on PBS American Experience.

July 20, 2022 post by National Historical Publications and Records Commission on Facebook states: The July issue of Pan American airlines magazine reports that they had received some 14,000 requests for reservations for the first round trip commercial moon flight. Eventually some 93,000 people received one of Pan Am "First Moon Flights" card in hopes for a ticket to ride. You can read more about it at the Smithsonian at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/.../i-was-card-carrying.../ The NHPRC awarded two grants to the University of Miami to process the Pan Am collections. You can visit (the collection, not the moon) at https://atom.library.miami.edu/asm0341 and you can read the July issue of Wing Tips magazine at https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/.../rec/25.

1969, July 21

1969 - 'Eagle Has Landed' - 2 U.S. Men Walk on the Moon

Article from Jul 21, 1969 The Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, Indiana) 1969, Moon landing

1969 - 'Eagle Has Landed' - 2 U.S. Men Walk on the Moon The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Monday, July 21, 1969, Page 1

“Where’s the story going to go? Asked one veteran staffer who was walking past the Page 1 draft in the composing room...

Posted by Ray E. Boomhower on Saturday, July 20, 2024

Saturday, July 20, 2024 post by Ray E. Boomhower on Facebook:

“Where’s the story going to go? Asked one veteran staffer who was walking past the Page 1 draft in the composing room that was waiting for THE PICTURE.

I replied, “It’s all on Page 2.”

“But,” he said, “we’ve never done this before.”

“That’s right,” I replied. “But we’ve never put a man on the moon before either.

The Newspaperman and the Moon Landing

1969, September - the Fort Wayne Ministerial Alliance backs a boycott of several city schools. Ensuing negotiations with the school board brings the agreement that later closes Central High School and begins the desegregation process. Copied from the 1960-1969: Timeline of events from the Fort Wayne History Stories about time periods in the archives of The News-Sentinel newspaper.

1969, October 29 - the beginning of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet developed by the Department of Defense was the first connection when bits of data flowed between computers at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute.

1969, December 1 - during the Vietnam war the U.S. government held the first draft lottery since WWII.

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