How Much things cost in 1963 Cost of new house $12,650.00 Average Income per year $5,807.00 Gas per Gallon 29 cents Cost of a new car $3,233.00 Loaf of bread 22 cents Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.24% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial 762 1963 saw the assassination of the US President Kennedy on November 22nd which thrust Lyndon Johnson into the role of president and the murder two days later of Lee Harvey Oswald by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Mounting troubles in Vietnam where the Viet Cong Guerrillas had killed 80 American Advisers. The campaign for civil rights by the black community caused violent reactions from whites including Mississippi, Virginia and Alabama where the black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was arrested. Films included The Birds and The Great Escape and popular TV The Virginian and Lassie. Ladies fashion clothes and hairstyles included fur boots and towering hair dos for evening wear. Beatlemania after they release I Want To Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing There and Meet the Beatles.
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