1960s Timeline

Apr. 4, 1963 - Four Brooklyn hoodlums accused of attacking and stomping an FBI agent outside a church just before the funeral of Carmello...

Apr. 3, 1963 - An FBI agent was severely beaten and stripped of his pistol today while observing a funeral gathering outside a Brooklyn...

Mar. 22, 1963 - A missing persons report was filed with the police today on singer Johnny Mathis, 27, who reportedly hasn’t been seen...

Mar. 21, 1963 - The Federal prison on Alcatraz Island became a hollow, echoing shell today with the removal of the last 27 prisoners...

Mar. 15, 1963 - A glamorous American opera soprano clad in a scarlet nightgown was found shot dead today in her room in a fashionable...

Mar. 13, 1963 - Nathan Leopold (second from left in 1924), a man who has spent his adult life atoning for a crime committed in his youth,...

Mar. 11, 1963 - Two former convicts confessed today to kidnapping two Hollywood police detectives, but each accused each the other of...

Mar. 10, 1963 - Ian James Campbell (pictured), a 31-year-old Los Angeles policeman, was kidnapped with a fellow officer, Karl Hettinger,...

Mar. 1, 1963 - Anthony Anastasio (pictured right in 1957), labor boss of the Brooklyn waterfront, died early today at Long Island...

Feb. 25, 1963 - Murder is mainly an indoor crime in New York City. It is harder on wives than on husbands. Saturday is the deadliest day...

Feb. 24, 1963 - Funeral services were conducted today for Mrs. Dolores Heideman, 32, as police prepared to charge her husband Leonard,...

Feb. 22, 1963 - “I had a dream…I was acting out the dream.” Leonard M. Heideman (pictured), a leading television writer in Hollywood,...

Feb. 20, 1963 - Five counts of first-degree murder were leveled against 16-year-old Harry Hebard (right) in Green Bay, Wisconsin this...

Feb. 18, 1963 - In Oconto County, Wisconsin, this morning, a 16-year-old high school student was taken into custody after the bodies of 5...

Feb. 2, 1963 - They call themselves Hell’s Angels. Their symbol is the grinning Death’s Head. Perhaps you’ve seen them on the highways of...

Dec. 8, 1962 - Massachusetts State Police said today that 14-year-old Thomas Cadigan, brother of slain Margaret Cadigan (pictured), 17,...

Dec. 5, 1962 - A 21-year-old woman was strangled with a pillowcase today in the Boston area’s seventh strangling of a woman since...

Oct. 25, 1962 - Abe Turner (pictured left with Bobby Fischer in 1958), a chess master who was one of the top players in the country, was...

Oct. 9, 1962 - Winnie Ruth Judd (pictured in 1932), the “trunk murderer” of the early 1930s, escaped last night from the Arizona State...

Aug. 30, 1962 - A 17-year-old Queens boy was accused today of slaying a 14-year-old girl because he “wanted to see what it felt like to...