The 60's

• The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.
  The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe. This "cultural decade" is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 and ending around 1974
  

  
  

  John F. Kennedy assassination – President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and Texas Governor John Connally in the presidential limousine, minutes before his assassination.

  
  

  Jacqueline with Nehru

  

  The Kennedy's with Nehru and Indira Gandhi in the White House
  

  

  

  Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington", 28 August 1963
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  John Lennon rehearsing Give Peace A Chance, in Canada, 1969
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  Johnny Cash, in front of his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, 1969

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From left, clockwise: A soldier lays on the ground during the Vietnam War; The Beatles, part of the British Invasion, change music in America and around the world; John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, after serving the office of president for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream Speech to a crowd of over a million; Millions participate in the Woodstock Festival of 1969; China's Mao Zedong puts forward the Great Leap Forward plan; The bombing of the Mount of Olives during the Six-Day War; For the first time in history, an American human being sets his foot on the Moon, in the Moon landing 1969

East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961.

Examples of 1960s technology, including two rotary-dial telephones, and a Kodak camera.

Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes on October 14, 1962.