1960s Timeline

Nov. 19, 1963 - The national cemetery dedicated in Gettysburg, Pa., 100 years ago by Abraham Lincoln was rededicated today by former...

Apr. 7, 1963 - President Kennedy toured Antietam battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md. today. For the second Sunday in a row, Mr. Kennedy...

Sept. 20, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks recorded today for a ceremony commemorating the centennial of the Emancipation ...

Sept. 13, 1962 - In New York City last night, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke at a dinner marking the 100th anniversary of the signing of...

June 18, 1962 - The House of Representatives passed today and sent to the Senate a bill to designate next Jan. 1 as “Emancipation...

May 3, 1962 - Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet (pictured right in 1900), widow of James Longstreet (left), the controversial Confederate...

Jan. 25, 1962 - Mrs. Eliza (Granny) Harper, who remembers seeing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (pictured) parade in Brooklyn after the Civil War,...

Jan. 9, 1962 - A series of 13 shows about the Civil War will be presented Sundays at 4:30 p.m. over WABC-TV starting Jan. 21. The...

July 22, 1961 - The Battle of Bull Run, the first great engagement of the Civil War on July 21, 1861, was partly re-enacted today across...