JFK: The Road to the White House (TRIH eps 392-398)
1960 · Resource
“It wouldn't be very difficult to kill the president of the United States, you just have to be in a high building with a high powered rifle, telescopic sight and there's nothing anyone could do about it….” On the morning of Friday, 22nd November 1963, John F. Kennedy awoke with just hours to live. Ahead was a flight to Love Field, Dallas; then a motorcade into the heart of the city’s business district. But as the president and his glamorous wife, Jacqueline, settled back in their limousine f...
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Around 1960
- The Beatles (1960)
- Events of 1968 (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Hey Jude (The Beatles) (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)