Aug 28th, 2008 · Many white residents of Washington, D.C., didn't expect the day of Aug. 28, 1963, to shine as a beacon in the history of U.S. civil rights. "They expected riot and mayhem," historian Taylor Branch said. With activist Roger Wilkins, Branch looks back at that day.
Jul 3rd, 2008 · When students from nearby Middlebury College broke into the Homer Noble Farm in Ripton, Vt. — the place where poet Robert Frost spent his summer in 1963 — and trashed the house, some of those charged with trespassing and vandalism accepted an unusual plea agreement.
Nov 18th, 2007 · The pastor whose church in Birmingham, Ala., was the site of a 1963 bombing that killed four young girls has died at 82. The Rev. John H. Cross Jr. dug through the rubble of his church in the minutes after the bombing to search for survivors.
Sep 7th, 2007 · Author Madeleine L'Engle has died. She wrote the children's favorite A Wrinkle in Time, which was published in 1962. It won the Newbery Medal in 1963. L'Engle was 88.
May 29th, 2007 · The CDC has placed a Georgia man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis under quarantine, the first time a quarantine order has been issued in the United States since 1963. Authorities say the man may have exposed passengers and crew aboard two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month. Robert Siegel talks with CDC Director Julie Gerberding.
May 8th, 2007 · Each year, nearly 1.5 million visitors take a ferry to Alcatraz from San Francisco and tour its chilly cell blocks. The federal prison that closed in 1963 has gotten an overhaul and a new audio tour, thanks to the efforts of a private group.
Apr 27th, 2007 · The Brig a play about Marines abusing Marines in prison, is now being performed in New York for first time since 1963. The Kenneth H. Brown play is running at The Living Theatre.
Mar 27th, 2007 · "Boogie Blues" contains two minutes and one second of wonderful boogie-woogie, sung by a great jazz singer at a 1963 concert and never heard on record until now. Anita O'Day's Tokyo performance aired live on Japanese TV, then languished in the vaults.