JFK: The Road to the White House (TRIH ep 392, part 1)
1960 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a multi-episode series examining John F. Kennedy by focusing on his origins, character and early career. They trace Kennedy's Irish-Catholic Boston upbringing, the towering influence of his father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and the family’s social ambitions.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1960
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Korean War (1950)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)