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Economy
President: Lyndon B.
Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H.
Humphrey

Population: 194,302,963
Life expectancy: 70.
2 years

Dow-Jones
High: 969
Low: 867

Federal spending: $118.
23 billion
Federal debt: $322.
3 billion
Inflation: 1.
6%
Consumer Price Index: 31.
5
Unemployment: 5.
2%

Prices
Cost of a new home: $21,500.
00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.
05
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.
31
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.
53
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $0.
95

News Headlines

Malcolm X Assassinated In Harlem

Soviet Cosmonaut Leonov First Man To Float In Space

Watts Ghetto Riots Leave 34 Dead

25,000 March On Washington To Protest War

LBJ Stops Bombing And Offers Peace

Supreme Court Strikes Down Compulsory Anti-Birth Control Laws

Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

Stolen Gems Found; Murph The Surf Held

LBJ Sends 50,000 More Troops To Vietnam

US Forces Authorized To Fight In Vietnam

In The News

France leaves NATO

HUD is created

Winston Churchill dies

Nat "King" Cole dies

Frank Borman and James Lovell make 206 orbits in Gemini VII

Malcom X Is Shot To Death By Negros

King leads Alabama freedom walk

UfO's Make Headlines

Draft card are burned, offenders arrested by FBI

"The Vietcong are going to collapse within weeks", National Security Advisor

Get Smart and The wild Wild West are hit new TV shows

Omar Sharif and Julie Cristie star in Dr.
Zhivago at movie theaters

NBC starts early evening news programs

Sam Sham and the Pharaohs make "Wooly Bully" a hit

Sonny and Cher have a hit with "I Got You Babe"

Up The Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman is on the Best Sellers list

Silicon chips are introduced

New Words; Flower Power, discotheque, kook, dude, groupie, no way

Astrodome is the first domed stadium

Diet Pepsi, Cranapple, Apple Jacks make their first appearance

San Francisco group The Grateful Dead make there first appearance

90% of silver is removed from coins, only a "clad" cover is silver

105 Cadets at the Air Force Academy resign for cheating

Watts riots requires 14,000 National guardsmen to be called

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Posted on 06:51AM on Apr 10th, 2008
I found it on this site 1960sflashback.com...they have information for years up to 1999
Posted on 06:56AM on Apr 10th, 2008
tell me about...how crazy would the world be then!!! lol
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