#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $200: At the 1964 World's Fair, Henry Ford II unveiled this pony car with a price near $2,300; Detroit ran wild as 400,000 sold in year one the Mustang |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $400: Frank Weatherman, the last inmate to leave this island prison upon its 1963 closure, said it "never was no good" Alcatraz |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $600: Let me stand next to your fire! 1967's Summer of Love reached a peak when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar ablaze at this pop festival the Monterey Pop Festival |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $800: 23 days after Gagarin's flight in 1961, Alan Shepard lit the candle on this NASA project with a 15-minute suborbital journey Mercury |
#8697, aired 2022-09-13 | 1960s AMERICA $1000: In 1962 James Meredith became the first African-American student at this Southern university the University of Mississippi |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | THE 1960s $3,000 (Daily Double): On the medal podium in this city, John Carlos & Tommie Smith raised fists & also wore no shoes to highlight poverty in America Mexico City |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $400: On Jan. 15, 1967 the vast L.A. Memorial Coliseum had 35,000 empty seats for the first of these games the Super Bowl |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $1200: A Naval Academy graduate, he became the USA's first man in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight Alan Shepard |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $1600: A May 1963 "Children's Crusade" helped civil rights as cops' treatment of kids in this Ala. city shocked the nation Birmingham |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $2000: This woman's 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique" helped launch second wave feminism (Betty) Friedan |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | 1960s AMERICA $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1964 D.C. residents were allowed to vote for president for the first time, going 85% for this man Lyndon Johnson |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $400: Thanks to a gift from Nikita Khrushchev, this president enjoyed a litter of dogs nicknamed "pupniks" John F. Kennedy |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $800: These 2 health insurance programs went into effect as Titles 18 & 19 of the Social Security Act Medicare and Medicaid |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $1600: In 1969 the trial regarding this "numeric" group began at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois the Chicago Seven (or Chicago Eight) |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $2,000 (Daily Double): He formed a Harvard psychedelic drug research program; he was dismissed by Harvard in 1963 Tim Leary |
#7919, aired 2019-01-31 | 1960s AMERICA $2000: On March 2, 1965 the campaign known as "Rolling" this began bombing North Vietnam thunder |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $400: Lucius Amerson wore a star as the Deep South's first black one of these in a century a sheriff |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $800: In 1969 black's opinion (Justice Hugo Black) was that this school practice should not "be tolerated another minute" segregation |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $1600: This new cabinet department was headed by the first African-American cabinet member, Robert Weaver Housing & Urban Development |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $2000: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened here at Lincoln Center with a world premiere featuring this African-American diva as Cleopatra Leontyne Price |
#6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $2,500 (Daily Double): In March 1964 he broke with the Nation of Islam Malcolm X |
#6217, aired 2011-10-04 | PAN AM IN THE '60s $400: (I'm Kelli Garner.) In the 1960s Pan Am was the airline for the real jet set & our show imagines the actual PA 101 flight that brought this quartet to America Feb. 7, 1964 the Beatles |
#4341, aired 2003-06-16 | 1960s AMERICA $200: After a life-changing trip to Mecca in 1965, Malcolm X had a new slogan: these "or Bullets" Ballots |
#4341, aired 2003-06-16 | 1960s AMERICA $400: For hippies, it was Manhattan's equivalent of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district Greenwich Village |
#4341, aired 2003-06-16 | 1960s AMERICA $600: Its first director was a sargent, Sargent Shriver Peace Corps |
#4341, aired 2003-06-16 | 1960s AMERICA $800: A comedy troupe, or what critics found forming between what was reported & what was happening in Vietnam credibility gap |
#4341, aired 2003-06-16 | 1960s AMERICA $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston) This capsule sent into space in 1965 weighs 8000 pounds, only about 2,500 more than a 1965 Lincoln Continental Gemini |
#4098, aired 2002-05-29 | PEACETIME HISTORY $400: In the 1960s & 70s this founding member of OPEC had the highest per capita income in Latin America Venezuela |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | AMERICA-PODGE $1000: Born in Mexico in 1907 to expatriate American Mormons, George Romney served as gov. of this U.S. state in the 1960s Michigan |
#3781, aired 2001-01-29 | "V" ARE NOT AFRAID $400: This man seen here helped America reach new heights in the 1960s Wernher von Braun |
#2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BLACK AMERICA $800: This author of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" was an editor of the African Review in Ghana in the 1960s Maya Angelou |
#2138, aired 1993-12-15 | THE 1960s $200: The most powerful earthquake recorded in North America hit this state March 27, 1964 Alaska |
#1649, aired 1991-10-31 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $400: It's the 1960s organization founded by Bobby Seale & Huey Newton the Black Panthers |
#1510, aired 1991-03-08 | SLOGANS $400: A conservative slogan of the 1960s said, "America, love it or" do this leave it |