Labels:text | screenshot | man | newspaper OCR: TIME The 1960s ALMANAC OF THE 20TH CENTURY January 1960-December 1969 ELECTIONS civil rights revolu- It ended under the KENNEDY tion, John F shadow of the Viet Kennedy's bold Nam War, which vision of a New deeply divided Frontier and the Americans-and PRESIDE breathtaking their allies-and 1960 advances in space undermined the PRESIDEN helped bring about country's self-confi- FOR progress and pros- dence and sense of perity. Much, how- ever, was negative: VIETNAM TOP STORIES OF THE 1960s PORTRAITS student and antiwar riots roiled the shadow of the by the U-2 incident, 1964 protest movements U.S. and resulted Cold War, with the Berlin wall, the political assassina- in diminished U.S .- Soviet ten- Cuban missile crisis tions and ghetto respect for authori- sions aggravated and the space race. ty and the law. The U.S.'s violent TIME spasms were mir- rored by leftist Martin L. King, Jr. 1968 youth revolt in The 1960s was a Europe and Red decade of social Guard rampages in and political up- China. heaval. Some of this turmoil had The decade positive results: the SPACE began under the MAN OF THE YEAR CIVIL RIGHTS John F. Kennedy
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