“Dark Shadows” Flashback
More fun than a barrel of bats
Newsweek August 21, 1967
And check out our current ‘Dark Shadows’ for Dummies
Happy 48th Birthday, Ford Mustang!
At first, it was known only as the T-5- a coded abstraction with no meaning outside the four windowless walls of a room in Dearborn, Mich. This week, it is the Mustang; and Americans will have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to avoid the name.
Newsweek April 20, 1964
Bob Dylan Introduced “Blowin’ In The Wind” 50 Years Ago Today…
But Did He Write It?
Newsweek November 4, 1963
Walter Cronkite Became Anchorman Of ‘The CBS Evening News’ 50 Years Ago.
Guess Who’s Up For Parole?
Newsweek coverage of the Manson Murders, December 15, 1969
Read our 2009 interview with ‘Helter Skelter’ author Vincent Bugliosi
(Top image credit: California Department of Corrections, 2011)
Dr. Martin Luther King Was Assassinated On This Date In 1968
He was, more than any single man, the voice and the instrument of the second American revolution. He materialized out of the streets and the Jim Crow churches of the South a dozen years ago, preaching brotherhood and nonviolence to a divided and violent land. For a time, incredibly, it worked- until the very forces he had helped set in in motion swept past him and turned the black ghettos of America into battlegrounds. Yet King never gave up, and he was trying to prove his way would work again when a white assassin cut him down last week in Memphis- and dealt a perilous wound to the American soul.
Newsweek April 15, 1968
What Role For The Educated Woman?
Sophomore Jamie Rosenthal of Radcliffe admits: “I think I’m bright, but I’m more delighted when i can be outbrighted than be brighter than someone else- particularly if it’s a man.”
Newsweek June 13, 1966
Frost hung in the cloudy morning skies as the two cosmonauts clambered aboard the Voskhod II spaceship…
Newsweek March 29, 1965
It’s World Water Day!
Newsweek August 23, 1965
1964- The Beatles Invade America
Visually, they are a nightmare: tight, dandified, Edwardian-Beatnik suits and great pudding bowls of hair. Musically, they are a near-disaster…
Newsweek February 24, 1964
