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| January 7~Reflecting the Cold War chill being felt nationwide, Fail-safe and Seven Days in May are number one and two on the fiction bestseller list. Boom p.120 |
| June 12~Civil rights activist Medger Evers, 37, walking to his house in Jackson, Miss., is murdered by a sniper hiding in a bush. Within a few days the FBI will charge Byron de la Beckwith, a 42-year-old fertilizer salesman, with the Murder. Boom p. 242 |
| July 1~ZIP codes appear amid confusion about how to use the new five-digit numbers. The U.S Post Office has designed the ZIP (for "Zone Improvement Plan") system to speed up sorting and delivering a growing burden of first-class mail, now nearing 70 billion pieces a year. Boom p.184 |
| August 28~Bob Dylan, Odetta, Joan Baez, Mahalia Jackson, and Peter, Paul and Mary are among the musicians who perform at a massive demonstration on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., as nearly a quarter-million demonstrators rally for civil rights during the March on Washington. Boom p. 42 |
| August 28~Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech concludes a highly successful "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," the first nonviolent black-organized event to attain national media coverage. Boom p. 242 |
| November 5~The Beatles give a command performance before Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth at the Prince of Wales Theater. On stage, John Lennon requests that "the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands, the rest of you just rattle your jewelry." Boom p. 43 |
| November 22~President Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, Texas. As the motorcade passed the Texas Book Depository, the shots rang out. They will later to be found to have been fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, a Marine Corps veteran who has spent time in the Soviet Union; Oswald will be captured in a Dallas movie theater 80 minutes after the shooting. Boom p. 243 |
| November 24~As millions of television viewers watch with disbelief, Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby murders Lee Harvey Oswald at point-blank range in the basement of the Dallas city jail. Boom p.244 |
| November 29~President Johnson appoints a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. Next September, the Warren Commission will deliver its 295,000-word conclusion: that Oswald acted alone. The summary report alone will span 888 pages. The conclusion will become a focus of controversy for decades. Boom p. 244 |
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