Video: '"RUBY AND OSWALD" (1978)' (Kennedys arrive in Houston at 4:06)
(Thursday, November 21, 1963, 4:37 p.m. CST) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy arrived today at Houston International Airport (now Hobby Airport) and the motorcade to the Rice Hotel in Houston. Continue reading President Kennedy lands in Houston 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'November 21, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy's Remarks at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas'
(Thursday, November 21, 1963, 2:45 p.m. CST) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy dedicated the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine today at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas (click here for a nine-minute audio clip of JFK’s address). Continue reading President Kennedy dedicates Air Force school in San Antonio 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: '"FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER" (1964 DAVID L. WOLPER FILM)' (Kennedys depart White House at 13:38)
(Thursday, November 21, 1963, 10:50 a.m. EST; during the Cold War) — President and Mrs. Kennedy left the White House this morning by helicopter for Andrews Air Force Base to catch an 11:03 a.m. EST flight aboard Air Force One to Texas. Continue reading President Kennedy leaves the White House 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'Imagine John Lennon Documentation HD part 2' (Nov. 20, 1963 at 3:49)
(Wednesday, November 20, 1963) — The Beatles were interviewed today at ABC Cinema in Manchester, England, about their upcoming first visit to the United States for a Jan. 6, 1964, broadcast of Granada TV’s Scene at 6:30.
Video: 'Atoka, November 1963: 10-11'
(Sunday, November 10, 1963) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his family and friends were filmed today at his new residence, Wolf’s Head Farm in Atoka, Virginia. At one point during a light-hearted moment, the president was nearly “eaten” by daughter Caroline’s pony Macaroni.
Video: 'I Do by the Beach Boys'
(Thursday, November 7, 1963, midnight PST) — The Beach Boys recorded “I Do” today at RCA studio in Los Angeles, leaving it unreleased for 27 years until 1990’s re-release of Surfer Girl/Shut Down Volume 2.
Video: 'PRESIDENT KENNEDY DICTATES NOTES REGARDING VIETNAM (NOVEMBER 4, 1963)'
(Monday, November 4, 1963, evening; during the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy reflected upon the tumultuous events that had transpired in Saigon over the previous weekend, the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Ding Nhu.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 2' (Nov. 2, 1963, at 48:16)
(Saturday, November 2, 1963, just after 6:50 a.m. ICT; during the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were arrested and assassinated this morning after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) had been successful in a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. Continue reading South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem assassinated in military coup 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Audio: 'The Rolling Stones - I Wanna Be Your Man'
(Friday, November 1, 1963) — The Rolling Stones released their second single, Lennon-McCartney’s “I Wanna Be Your Man” and the original group composition “Stoned,” today in Britain. Continue reading The Rolling Stones release second single ‘I Wanna Be Your Man/Stoned’ 50 years ago today (1963)
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy's 63rd News Conference - October 31, 1963'
(Thursday, October 31, 1963, 4:00 p.m. EDT; during the Cold War and Space Race) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy told a news conference today that he “would not make any bets at all upon Soviet intentions” despite Premier Khrushchev’s statement that his country would not race to the moon but, rather, would profit from American experience in that field. Continue reading Kennedy questions whether Soviet Union abandoning moon race 50 years ago this hour (1963)
