1960s Timeline

Jan. 24, 1963 - A condemned killer today won a last-minute stay of execution despite his bitter protests. He had denounced Norman...

Dec. 17, 1962 - The myth of Alcatraz was shredded today as investigators tried to discover how a convict escaped and then survived the...

Nov. 29, 1962 - Indians cannot plead religious freedom as a ground for eating a vision-producing cactus plant banned by state law, the...

Nov. 21, 1962 - In a suburb of Lille, France today, Jacques Vasseur (pictured) left his mother’s house for the first time in 17 years....

Nov. 13, 1962 - An Indian’s right to eat vision-inducing cactus buds in half-Christian, half-pagan ceremonies was defended in California...

Nov. 12, 1962 - A collection of rare coins was stolen early today from the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo. John W. Snyder,...

Nov. 10, 1962 - A Belgian jury acquitted a young mother and four other persons today in the “mercy-killing” of the woman’s week-old...

Nov. 8, 1962 - Art Carney, the stage and television actor, was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated today after his sports...

Nov. 5, 1962 - In Liège, Belgium today, the mother and grandmother of a deformed thalidomide baby wept in court as they gave evidence of...

Oct. 31, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks today at the graduation exercises of the FBI National Academy in Washington, D.C....

Oct. 10, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy's remarks today to a group of U.S. Attorneys in the White House Rose Garden, complimenting...

Oct. 9, 1962 - Winnie Ruth Judd (pictured in 1932), the “trunk murderer” of the early 1930s, escaped last night from the Arizona State...

Sept. 22, 1962 - Three white men were sentenced to seven years in prison today for burning a Negro church (pictured) near Dawson,...

Sept. 15, 1962 - Opening today is “Convicts Four,” prison film drama starring Ben Gazzara. The film is a fictionalized version of the...

Aug. 30, 1962 - A 17-year-old Queens boy was accused today of slaying a 14-year-old girl because he “wanted to see what it felt like to...

Aug. 29, 1962 - During the first week of being disguised in women’s clothing, “Operation Decoy” policemen in New York City made 80...

Aug. 24, 1962 - Eight of New York’s finest became eight of New York’s fairest today as the Police Department’s “Operation Decoy” moved...

Aug. 14, 1962 - Four men, two carrying submachine guns, robbed a mail truck in Massachusetts tonight. Detective Lieut. Joseph Simmons...

Aug. 1, 1962 - Illinois Governor Otto Kerner spared Paul Crump (pictured), a condemned killer, from the electric chair today and ruled...

July 25, 1962 - James R. Hoffa, Teamsters president, was described by Senate investigators today as a man with a callous disregard of...