1960s Timeline

Nov. 29, 1961 - The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, the world-traveling evangelist, will be the subject of a television portrait tonight on NBC. The program, the second in a series that began with a study of Bob Hope, takes the form of a camera accompanying Dr. Graham on his vastly varied rounds — as the gospel preacher at the crusades that he has conducted in all corners of the globe, as the administrator of an organization that employs modern business and advertising techniques, as

Nov. 5, 1961 - The Rev. A. DeWitt Mallary Jr., vicar of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Chapel in New York City, took issue in his sermon today with an endorsement of the motion picture “King of Kings” issued recently by the Protestant Council of the City of New York. The clergyman called the film “bad art and bad religion” and expressed the hope that a “bad box office will bring to an end this type of Biblical corn that poses pretentiously as inspirational and religious movi

Sept. 12, 1961 - The Cuban Government launched a fresh attack against the Roman Catholic Church today. It accused priests and nuns of plotting to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro and charged that the clergy was acting as an agent for U.S. intelligence. The attack was made in a communiqué by the Interior Ministry. The move was foreshadowed by denunciations of the clergy by newspapers, radio stations, and groups of Castro supporters in the wake of Sunday's anti-Communist de

Sept. 10, 1961 - Reverend Billy Graham said today that the U.S. had more unhappy marriages now than ever. Only social pressures and children prevent "many more loveless marriages" from breaking up, the evangelist told 22,000 persons at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. "Our divorce rate is three times more than England's and Australia's and six times that of Norway and Holland," he said. "When the home breaks, the nation is on the skids. We are threatened by communism from

July 27, 1961 - Today's new film is "Francis of Assisi," a Twentieth Century-Fox biographical drama, with Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart and Stuart Whitman. Plato A. Skouras produced the film, which was photographed in color in Italy and directed by Michael Curtiz. An invitational charity screening of the picture at New York's Rivoli Theatre last night raised $10,565 for foreign missions of the Third Order of St. Francis. #movienight #movietime #movie #movies #film #films #cl

July 14, 1961 - Pope John XXIII appealed in an encyclical today for aid to underdeveloped areas without the creation of a "new form of colonialism" or the spread of materialistic "poison." The Pontiff also warned against the element of fear in today's changing world. Apparently alluding to conflicts between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, he said that leaders of nations were unable to understand one another because they were being inspired by radically opposed philosophies. "E

July 7, 1961 - The New York Court of Appeals ruled today that it was legal for public schools to open each day with the non-sectarian prayer recommended by the Board of Regents. The state's highest court voted 5-2 on the constitutionality of the use of the prayer. The prayer in dispute reads as follows: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee and we beg Thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Chief Judge Charles S. Desmond said t