1960s Timeline

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Mar 29

Integrated Easter Service Led by Billy Graham in Birmingham

Mar. 29, 1964 - Whites and Negroes in Birmingham, Ala., long estranged by racial discord, found common ground today in an Easter service...

Mar 28

Billy Graham Looks Forward to Integrated Easter Service in Birmingham

Mar. 28, 1964 - The Rev. Billy Graham says he hopes his Easter Sunday service in Birmingham, Ala., tomorrow before an integrated audience...

Dec 26, 2022

European Christians Who Helped Jews in WWII To Be Acclaimed as “Righteous Gentiles”

Dec. 26, 1962 - European Christians who secretly befriended Jews in Nazi-occupied countries will now be acclaimed. Jews in free-world...

Jun 14, 2022

Rev. Billy Graham To Appear on WPIX-TV Next Month

June 14, 1962 - The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham (pictured at Stateville Penitentiary in Illinois) will appear in five one-hour telecasts on New...

Nov 29, 2021

TV: NBC Special on Rev. Billy Graham

Nov. 29, 1961 - The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, the world-traveling evangelist, will be the subject of a television portrait tonight on NBC....

Sep 10, 2021

Billy Graham to Youth: Only Marry People of Faith

Sept. 10, 1961 - Reverend Billy Graham said today that the U.S. had more unhappy marriages now than ever. Only social pressures and...

Jul 27, 2021

Movie: "Francis of Assisi"

July 27, 1961 - Today's new film is "Francis of Assisi," a Twentieth Century-Fox biographical drama, with Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart...

Jul 14, 2021

Pope John XXIII Speaks on World Affairs

July 14, 1961 - Pope John XXIII appealed in an encyclical today for aid to underdeveloped areas without the creation of a "new form of...