1960s Timeline

Dec. 10, 1962 - President Kennedy warned today that the growing peril of nationwide air pollution poses a hazard to the health of...

Dec. 6, 1962 - The death toll in Britain’s worst smog in a decade has reached 67 in London, where conditions today were the most serious...

Sept. 13, 1962 - A public frame of mind “bordering on hysteria” can be generated by “one-sided” books such as that just written by Rachel...

Aug. 29, 1962 - Rachel Carson, who has warned that the use of pesticides threatens to poison the environment, is expected to appear on an...

Aug. 17, 1962 - President Kennedy called on Congress today to write “a conservation record second to none” before it adjourned....

May 25, 1962 - Here's a clip from President Kennedy’s remarks today to the White House Conference on Conservation held in the State...