Sixties newspapers

 

 

 

A few of the decades many news stories

 

 
 
 
 
 

Easter Monday 1960 American Rock star Eddie Chochran died in a road crash at Chippenham Wiltshire while on route to Heathrow from Bristol

 

5th June 1963. War Minister John Pfofumo resigns after lying to the House of Commons about his involvement with call girl Christine Keeler

 

The first transatlatic television pictures recieved from the Telstar communication satellite. July 12th 1962

 

More on the Profumo affair. Private Eye's front cover 14th June 1963. Click on image to see what Prime Minister Harold MacMillan is saying

 

Having been arrested in October 1965 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to life imprisoment on 6th of May 1966

 

Probably the most remembered event of the 1960's. The assasination of President John F Kennedy on 22nd November 1963

 

 
 
 
 
 

The death was anounnced of Sir Winston Churchill at the age of 90 on the 24th of January 1965

 

Prime Minister Harold Wilson commenting upon the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the govenment of Rhodesia led by Ian Smith on November 11th 1965

 

4th of June 1964. The infamous Margate bank holiday battles between rival youth groups. The Mods and Rockers

 

Lee Harvey Oswaldwas accused of shooting president John F Kennedy. Oswald was never stood trial. he was shot dead by Jack Ruby on November 22nd 1963.

 

While campaigning as the 1968 Democratic presedential candidate, Robert Kenndey was assasinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles shortly after midnight on June the 5th

 

American astronauts Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. July 20th 1969

 

 
 
 
 
 

The A6 murder trial ended with James Hanratty being found guilty on 13th March 1962. Hanratty was one of the last men to hanged on 14th April 1962

 

This spectacular picture of the death of Donald Campbell atConiston Water when his boat Bluebird K7 went out of control on January 4th 1967

 

1st February 1968. Brigadier-General Nguyen Ngoc loan photographed shooting a Vietcong prisoner by press photographer Eddie Adams.

 

116 children and 28 adults died in the Aberfan disaster when a slag heap collapsed on 21st October 1966

 

Dora Bryan's record entered the top 20 on 28th December 1963. Well Christmas is the silly season as far as record buying is concerned

 

The winter freeze of 1963 caused a huge rise in the price of vegetables because the ground was to hard for farmers to harvest them.

 

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