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Congratulations to Don and Marilynn Amberger, celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary today. Woot! Woot! Thinking about them led me to think about what was going on in America 50 years ago: A half century ago, much of the news in the United States was dominated by the actions of civil rights activists and those who opposed them. Our role in Vietnam was steadily growing, along with the costs of that involvement. It was the year Beatlemania began, and the year President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin and delivered his famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech. Push-button telephones were introduced, 1st class postage cost 5 cents, and the population of the world was 3.2 billion, less than half of what it is today. The final months of 1963 were punctuated by one of the most tragic events in American history, the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Read more and see breathtaking photographs at: theatlantic/infocus/2013/02/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1963/100460/
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:31:20 +0000

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