1960s Timeline

Aug. 6, 1963 - President Kennedy and other national leaders paid final tribute today to Philip Graham, publishing executive. About 2,000...

Aug. 3, 1963 - Philip L. Graham (pictured right in 1961), president and CEO of The Washington Post and chairman of the board of Newsweek...

Apr. 9, 1963 - Mrs. Charlene Wrightsman Cassini, wife of Igor Cassini, the society columnist, died in New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital...

Apr. 5, 1963 - A sobbing truck driver was pulled to safety from his precarious perch on a railing of the Manhattan Bridge today as he was...

Mar. 17, 1963 - Mercedes McCambridge (pictured right with Claire Trevor in 1950 after winning Best Supporting Actress for “All the King’s...

Dec. 18, 1962 - Heavyweight boxer Eddie Machen (pictured in 1960 with his manager Sid Flaherty) is so mentally disturbed that he is...

Dec. 13, 1962 - Heavyweight fighter Eddie Machen (pictured) knocked two hospital attendants unconscious and injured a third in a wild and...

Dec. 12, 1962 - Third-ranked heavyweight boxer Eddie Machen (pictured in July) was taken into custody by the California State Highway...

Sept. 11, 1962 - Dr. Robert Soblen died this morning in Hillingdon Hospital near London from effects of the overdose of drugs he took...

Sept. 6, 1962 - Dr. Robert Soblen (pictured left last year) swallowed an overdose of barbiturates today and was taken unconscious to a...

Aug. 21, 1962 - Hermann Höfle (pictured last year), facing trial in Vienna on charges of participating in the mass slaughter of Jews in...

Aug. 17, 1962 - The coroner of Los Angeles, Dr. Theodore J. Curphey (center), announced today that Marilyn Monroe’s death was probably a...

Aug. 17, 1962 - Los Angeles county coroner Theodore Curphey, flanked by psychiatrist Robert Litman and psychologist Norman Farberow,...

Aug. 16, 1962 - Bella Darvi (pictured), the French motion picture actress, was found unconscious before dawn today in her hotel room in...

Aug. 13, 1962 - Two days ago in New York City, a twenty-eight-year-old woman drowned herself in a bathtub on East Tenth Street, a laborer...

Aug. 8, 1962 - Actors Studio Director Lee Strasberg, who had befriended and coached Marilyn Monroe in recent years, delivered the eulogy...

Aug. 8, 1962 - Lee Strasberg (left) of the Actor's Studio, who had befriended and coached Marilyn Monroe, wept today before delivering...

Aug. 8, 1962 - A brief, simple service was held today for Marilyn Monroe at the Westwood Village Funeral Chapel in Hollywood. She was...

Aug. 7, 1962 - Plans were completed today to try to make Marilyn Monroe’s funeral tomorrow as simple as possible. Only a small number of...

Aug. 6, 1962 - Izvestia, the official Soviet Government newspaper, reported today that the death of Marilyn Monroe was “something bigger...