50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY
President Lyndon Baines Johnson got a warm welcome as he crossed the Mexican border at Ciudad Acuna for a good neighbor tour of a two-nation dam project.
Governor Ronald Reagan told 7,000 protesting students at the University of California at Berkeley to “accept and obey the prescribed rules or pack up and get out.
A mural depicting the signing of the United States Constitution and three other historical paintings were slashed at the Capitol by a scissors-wielding man.
Floyd McKissick, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality told the Senate Operations Committee that Black Power was a call for more political and economic power, not a threat to whites.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” was among the top selling paperback books of the time.
And on Shelter Island … (more…)
