The Selma Massacre
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Just for convenience sake, here's a summary of the events of March. I did skip a few minor entries. I'll finish up April and May shortly...
Events of March, 1965:
7 - Bloody Sunday. State troopers open fire in Selma, killing Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and more than fifty other marchers. In response, LBJ declares martial law, federalizes the Alabama NG, and sends US Marshalls. George Wallace also declares martial law and calls up the Alabama NG. US army deploys troops in DC.
8 - Riots beaks out across the US. Thousands mourn MLK in NYC. The ANG is patrolling the streets of Selma, with a curfew for blacks. Coretta Scott King is arrested after state troopers find communist propaganda and evidence of a plan to riot in Montgomery while searching the King house. Kruschev condemns the shooting. US Marines land in Vietnam.
9 - US Marshalls attempt to arrest members of the Alabama State Highway Patrol involved in Bloody Sunday. The resulting confrontation ends up with three dead, including one marshall and "Bull" Connor, and fourteen injured. Biloxi police deputize local KKK members who are patroling the streets. Two churches burned in Biloxi. NOI condemns the violence
10 - Rioting continues across the country. LBJ orders units of the 101st to Alabama to restore order, and for the FBI to take custody of Mrs. King. US Marshals halt their investigation until the 101st arrives. In Biloxi, a gun battle between the Deacons for Defense and Justice and KKK/local police breaks out, with nine dead and dozens injured. Governor W. Hayden Burns of Florida is murdered at his home, along with his wife and several guards by a large number of blacks. 1st student demonstrations in support of the rioters at UC Berekley.
11 - Three whites attack the Frank M Johnson Federal Building in Montgomery, killing a black guard, and start a fire. Eldridge Cleaver escapes prison.
12 - Ernest Garret shoots two NYPD officers.
13 - Federal Marshals in Birmingham shoot Harold Barrens. Deputized Klansmen arrest and beat Rabbi Perry Nussbaum and others at Beth Israel Synagogue in Jackson. This is condemned by Jewish communities across the United States and the Israeli Embassy.
14 - NYPD captures Ernest Garret. Governor McKeithen deputizes entire Louisiana KKK after riots in Shreveport and NOLA.
15 Violence between blacks and klansmen breaks out at "Bull" Connor's funeral. Black militants ambush a truck at Greenwood, Mississippi, freeing three prisoners. LBJ send elements of 101st to Louisiana to quell rioting.
16 - Gov. Johnson attacked by white gunmen at the University of Mississippi . Chicago PD violently breaks up a demonstration in Lincoln Park.
17 - Federal troops defuse a car bomb outside a KKK chapter in Baton Rouge.
20 - Attempted assassination of Hubert Humphrey by DC klansman Jeffrey Turner.
21 - Shootout between KKK and federal troops in Birmingham leaves four dead. LBJ declares KKK to be a terrorist organization.
22 - Federal troops violently break up KKK rally in NOLA. Ernest Garret is indicted.
23 - CBS reporter George Matthews is killed on live air covering rioting in the Bronx.
24 - Mayor Wagner asks Governor Rockefeller for state troopers to help NYPD.
25 - Pentagon delays deployment of 1st ID to Vietnam.
28 - March for Peace and Justice in DC includes Senator Robert Kennedy, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Governor George Romney, and former Vice President Richard Nixon.
30 - Joanne Merton and associates seize the courtroom of Ernest Garret's trial, seeking passage to Cuba. NYPD storms the courtroom, killing Garret and Merton.
31 - Muhammad’s Temple No. 1 bombed in Detroit, killing Louis Wolcott (Farrakhan) and Muhammed Ali.
Events of March, 1965:
7 - Bloody Sunday. State troopers open fire in Selma, killing Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and more than fifty other marchers. In response, LBJ declares martial law, federalizes the Alabama NG, and sends US Marshalls. George Wallace also declares martial law and calls up the Alabama NG. US army deploys troops in DC.
8 - Riots beaks out across the US. Thousands mourn MLK in NYC. The ANG is patrolling the streets of Selma, with a curfew for blacks. Coretta Scott King is arrested after state troopers find communist propaganda and evidence of a plan to riot in Montgomery while searching the King house. Kruschev condemns the shooting. US Marines land in Vietnam.
9 - US Marshalls attempt to arrest members of the Alabama State Highway Patrol involved in Bloody Sunday. The resulting confrontation ends up with three dead, including one marshall and "Bull" Connor, and fourteen injured. Biloxi police deputize local KKK members who are patroling the streets. Two churches burned in Biloxi. NOI condemns the violence
10 - Rioting continues across the country. LBJ orders units of the 101st to Alabama to restore order, and for the FBI to take custody of Mrs. King. US Marshals halt their investigation until the 101st arrives. In Biloxi, a gun battle between the Deacons for Defense and Justice and KKK/local police breaks out, with nine dead and dozens injured. Governor W. Hayden Burns of Florida is murdered at his home, along with his wife and several guards by a large number of blacks. 1st student demonstrations in support of the rioters at UC Berekley.
11 - Three whites attack the Frank M Johnson Federal Building in Montgomery, killing a black guard, and start a fire. Eldridge Cleaver escapes prison.
12 - Ernest Garret shoots two NYPD officers.
13 - Federal Marshals in Birmingham shoot Harold Barrens. Deputized Klansmen arrest and beat Rabbi Perry Nussbaum and others at Beth Israel Synagogue in Jackson. This is condemned by Jewish communities across the United States and the Israeli Embassy.
14 - NYPD captures Ernest Garret. Governor McKeithen deputizes entire Louisiana KKK after riots in Shreveport and NOLA.
15 Violence between blacks and klansmen breaks out at "Bull" Connor's funeral. Black militants ambush a truck at Greenwood, Mississippi, freeing three prisoners. LBJ send elements of 101st to Louisiana to quell rioting.
16 - Gov. Johnson attacked by white gunmen at the University of Mississippi . Chicago PD violently breaks up a demonstration in Lincoln Park.
17 - Federal troops defuse a car bomb outside a KKK chapter in Baton Rouge.
20 - Attempted assassination of Hubert Humphrey by DC klansman Jeffrey Turner.
21 - Shootout between KKK and federal troops in Birmingham leaves four dead. LBJ declares KKK to be a terrorist organization.
22 - Federal troops violently break up KKK rally in NOLA. Ernest Garret is indicted.
23 - CBS reporter George Matthews is killed on live air covering rioting in the Bronx.
24 - Mayor Wagner asks Governor Rockefeller for state troopers to help NYPD.
25 - Pentagon delays deployment of 1st ID to Vietnam.
28 - March for Peace and Justice in DC includes Senator Robert Kennedy, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Governor George Romney, and former Vice President Richard Nixon.
30 - Joanne Merton and associates seize the courtroom of Ernest Garret's trial, seeking passage to Cuba. NYPD storms the courtroom, killing Garret and Merton.
31 - Muhammad’s Temple No. 1 bombed in Detroit, killing Louis Wolcott (Farrakhan) and Muhammed Ali.
And here's April...
1965 April:
1 - Castro condemns US "genocide" and accuses the US of trying to start a war with Cuba.
2 - The DRV government says it will not yield to Rolling Thunder and urges black in the US "to fight on".
3 - LBJ and George Wallace met at WH. The meeting does not go well. The FBI uncovers a plot to assassinate Donald Rumsfeld.
4 - George Wallace dies in a plane crash. George Lincoln Rockwell claims it was a government plot.
5- Stokely Carmichael proclaims the start of "the revolution", taking up the battle cry "by any means necessary">.
7 - A shoot out occurs between KKK and blacks in Meridian, Mississippi.
8 - James Allen, the acting governor of Alabama, announces he is sueing the federal government for exceeding constitutional limits. LBJ decides to send the 1st ID to Mississippi instead of Vietnam.
11 - KKK attacks Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, setting fire to the stadium and killing a large number of people, including Coach Bear Bryant.
12 - A mob of blacks killl four North Carolina State Highwaypatrolmen outside of Charlotte.
13 - Gov. Harold Hughes confirms that the 133rd Infantry Regiment of the Iowa National Guard is being mobilized for Vietnam.
15 - Gov. James Allen of Alabama stated that he "would rather pledge allegiance to the Confederacy of old than to the communist Yankee state of today." and openly suggests rebellion.
17 - Police engage in gunfight with blacks outside a bar in Memphis, resulting in four dead.
19/20 - Alabama NG/KKK and federal troops fight over Fort McClellan. Gov. Allen denies it was done on his orders.
21 - LBJ shot and killed while making a speech in DC. Newly sworn in President Hubert Humphrey calls LBJ's assassination a "crime of reprehensible proportion" and promises to send more forces to Alabama.
23 - Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia KKK chapters declared to be in open revolt against the federal government.
24 - A Pentagon spokesman says Australia and New Zealand will be sending larger forces to Vietnam.
25 - Protests in Memphis turn into a massive street battle. Gov. Clement calls in the Tennessee NG. President Diosdado Macapagal says the Phillipines will deploy 25,000 troops to Vietnam.
26 - Eleventh Circuit Court rules in favor of Gov. Allen's motion, stating that "...federal troops must be withdrawn from those areas they are currently operating in pending appropriate Congressional authorization" The DoD announces that the Adjutant General of Alabama and the commander of the 30th AD are under arrest, and that members of the Alabama National Guardsmen will be subject to sever penalties for any actions against federal authorities.
30 - ROK announces 2,300 troops are being sent to Vietnam. The Pentagonannounces the 82nd Troop Command Brigade of the Oregon NGand elements of the Oregon Air NG will be deployed to Vietnam. Humphrey recalls Curtis LeMay to active duty to act as a "special military advisor".
1965 April:
1 - Castro condemns US "genocide" and accuses the US of trying to start a war with Cuba.
2 - The DRV government says it will not yield to Rolling Thunder and urges black in the US "to fight on".
3 - LBJ and George Wallace met at WH. The meeting does not go well. The FBI uncovers a plot to assassinate Donald Rumsfeld.
4 - George Wallace dies in a plane crash. George Lincoln Rockwell claims it was a government plot.
5- Stokely Carmichael proclaims the start of "the revolution", taking up the battle cry "by any means necessary">.
7 - A shoot out occurs between KKK and blacks in Meridian, Mississippi.
8 - James Allen, the acting governor of Alabama, announces he is sueing the federal government for exceeding constitutional limits. LBJ decides to send the 1st ID to Mississippi instead of Vietnam.
11 - KKK attacks Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama, setting fire to the stadium and killing a large number of people, including Coach Bear Bryant.
12 - A mob of blacks killl four North Carolina State Highwaypatrolmen outside of Charlotte.
13 - Gov. Harold Hughes confirms that the 133rd Infantry Regiment of the Iowa National Guard is being mobilized for Vietnam.
15 - Gov. James Allen of Alabama stated that he "would rather pledge allegiance to the Confederacy of old than to the communist Yankee state of today." and openly suggests rebellion.
17 - Police engage in gunfight with blacks outside a bar in Memphis, resulting in four dead.
19/20 - Alabama NG/KKK and federal troops fight over Fort McClellan. Gov. Allen denies it was done on his orders.
21 - LBJ shot and killed while making a speech in DC. Newly sworn in President Hubert Humphrey calls LBJ's assassination a "crime of reprehensible proportion" and promises to send more forces to Alabama.
23 - Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia KKK chapters declared to be in open revolt against the federal government.
24 - A Pentagon spokesman says Australia and New Zealand will be sending larger forces to Vietnam.
25 - Protests in Memphis turn into a massive street battle. Gov. Clement calls in the Tennessee NG. President Diosdado Macapagal says the Phillipines will deploy 25,000 troops to Vietnam.
26 - Eleventh Circuit Court rules in favor of Gov. Allen's motion, stating that "...federal troops must be withdrawn from those areas they are currently operating in pending appropriate Congressional authorization" The DoD announces that the Adjutant General of Alabama and the commander of the 30th AD are under arrest, and that members of the Alabama National Guardsmen will be subject to sever penalties for any actions against federal authorities.
30 - ROK announces 2,300 troops are being sent to Vietnam. The Pentagonannounces the 82nd Troop Command Brigade of the Oregon NGand elements of the Oregon Air NG will be deployed to Vietnam. Humphrey recalls Curtis LeMay to active duty to act as a "special military advisor".
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June 2, 1965
NBC News The Today Show
Barbara Walters:" Good Morning, I am here in Atlanta for an exclusive interview with Coretta Scott King the wife of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Mrs. King was just released this morning from federal custody. She was first arrested on orders from the deceased Governor of Alabama George Wallace and then detained by the FBI on suspicion of being involved with foreign communist agents. Mrs. King has been in federal custody since March. FBI Director Hoover stated that Mrs. King was being held for her own protection and that no proof of her involvement with the communists was found. Negro civil rights advocates petitioned the FBI and the US Attorney General to release Mrs.King."
"Senator Robert Kennedy also spoke on behalf of Mrs. King as well as Jackie Kennendy widow of President Kennedy. Finally Mr. Jimmy Carter a member of the Georgia State Senate asked that Mrs. King be released in the name of public safety to prevent violence in Georgia before the state senate and Governor. We will also be speaking with Senator Carter later in our broadcast."
NBC News The Today Show
Barbara Walters:" Good Morning, I am here in Atlanta for an exclusive interview with Coretta Scott King the wife of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Mrs. King was just released this morning from federal custody. She was first arrested on orders from the deceased Governor of Alabama George Wallace and then detained by the FBI on suspicion of being involved with foreign communist agents. Mrs. King has been in federal custody since March. FBI Director Hoover stated that Mrs. King was being held for her own protection and that no proof of her involvement with the communists was found. Negro civil rights advocates petitioned the FBI and the US Attorney General to release Mrs.King."
"Senator Robert Kennedy also spoke on behalf of Mrs. King as well as Jackie Kennendy widow of President Kennedy. Finally Mr. Jimmy Carter a member of the Georgia State Senate asked that Mrs. King be released in the name of public safety to prevent violence in Georgia before the state senate and Governor. We will also be speaking with Senator Carter later in our broadcast."
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Did Russell resign to take Johnston's set in April? One would assume that he didn't from the previous entries about his veto and impeachment...
May, 1965
1 - South Carolina votes to disband the South Carolina NG and transfer all personnel, facilities, and equipment to the South Carolina State Guard. KKK attacks Little Rock AFB.
2 - General Clinger, Arkansas NG, and three subordinates, resigned their commissions and are arrested by the USAF. Gov. Russell vetoes the South Carolina disbanding of the SCNG.
3 - A car bomb kills six in Memphis. Subsequent confrontations between blacks and the NG result in over a dozen dead. SC House brings impeachment charges against Gov. Russell.
4 - Reports of USMC Helicopters deploying forces "...in a similar fashion as in Vietnam" in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. Gov. Connally mobilizes the Texas NG after rioting in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and Corpus Christi.
5 - Several dozen people hold a protest outside the Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the "Arkansas-Four" are being held until their court martial. Gov. Connally moved to Ft. Hood.
6 - Deputy SecDefs Cyrus Vance and Paul Nitze resign. Vance states in a leter interview that they did so over strategic disagreements.
7 - After the student government passes a resolution prohibiting any KKK activity on campus, "to be enforced by the ROTC", a student demonstration at Brevard Engineering College ends in a standoff ends up in a standoff between police and armed ROTC students. The FBI conducts a raid on a KKK cell in El Paso, killing one.
9 - California NG begins a new recruitment push for blacks, amid rumors they'll be sent to the South.
10 - A bomb nearly kills South Carolina Gov. Russell (McNair?).
12 - KKK attacks Ft. Polk. Gov. Russell declares a state of emergency and dissolves the South Carolina General Assembly for the duration, with elections to occur next November.
13 - The "Arkansas-Four" recieve a death sentence. USN and USAF use napalm strikes on Ft. Polk atackers. LeMay makes plans to employ AC-47 gunships in the South.
15 - There is widespread rioting in rsponse to the "Arkansas-Four" death sentence, with Alabama and Arkansas NG participating. Nelson Rockafeller announces the deployment of the 108th Infantry Regiment, New York NG, to Alabama. Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Senator Kennedy, Senator McCarthy, Senator Muskie, Senator Jackson, Congressman Ford, Governor Romney, Governor Rockefeller, and former Vice President Nixon participate in a march in Bimingham. Armed members of the Black Panther Liberation Front occupy Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley.
16 - Texas Rangers break up a KKK rally. Louisiana NG troops "invade" Texas. The Texas NG, Air NG, and State Guard are called to duty, and several counties are placed under martial law. CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia is bombed, killing Admiral Raborn.
17 - A riot breaks out, with shots fired, between KKK protesters and others at the Lincoln Memorial. Pres. Humphrey nominates Richard Helms as new Director of CIA. Police move in and end the occupation of Sproul Hall. Several students and 2 police officers are killed. Huey Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Liberation Front, states "our brothers in arms will be liberated by any means necessary, from Oakland to Selma, from Chicago to Detroit."
18 - The Deacons for Defense and Justice merge into the BPLF.
19 - BPLF set off a car bomb outside a Detroit police statrion.
20 - Texas forces cross into Louisiana. Members of the BPLF rob the Trust and Loans bankin Chicago. Eldridge Cleaver is captured by the 101st in Alabama.
21- SCOTUS agrees to take up Gov. Allen's appeal. George Lincoln Rockwell kills Robert Mantes in Vicksberg and is later arrested in Virginia.
23 - The Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi is bombed, killing four.
24 - Charges against Rockwell are dropped, but he is detained for questioning regading the Gulfport bombing.
25 - Rockwell is killed in jail by a black prisoner.
27 - A school in Charleston, South Carolina is bombed.
28 - Secretary McNamara threatens to nationalize all state NGs.
1 - South Carolina votes to disband the South Carolina NG and transfer all personnel, facilities, and equipment to the South Carolina State Guard. KKK attacks Little Rock AFB.
2 - General Clinger, Arkansas NG, and three subordinates, resigned their commissions and are arrested by the USAF. Gov. Russell vetoes the South Carolina disbanding of the SCNG.
3 - A car bomb kills six in Memphis. Subsequent confrontations between blacks and the NG result in over a dozen dead. SC House brings impeachment charges against Gov. Russell.
4 - Reports of USMC Helicopters deploying forces "...in a similar fashion as in Vietnam" in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. Gov. Connally mobilizes the Texas NG after rioting in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and Corpus Christi.
5 - Several dozen people hold a protest outside the Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the "Arkansas-Four" are being held until their court martial. Gov. Connally moved to Ft. Hood.
6 - Deputy SecDefs Cyrus Vance and Paul Nitze resign. Vance states in a leter interview that they did so over strategic disagreements.
7 - After the student government passes a resolution prohibiting any KKK activity on campus, "to be enforced by the ROTC", a student demonstration at Brevard Engineering College ends in a standoff ends up in a standoff between police and armed ROTC students. The FBI conducts a raid on a KKK cell in El Paso, killing one.
9 - California NG begins a new recruitment push for blacks, amid rumors they'll be sent to the South.
10 - A bomb nearly kills South Carolina Gov. Russell (McNair?).
12 - KKK attacks Ft. Polk. Gov. Russell declares a state of emergency and dissolves the South Carolina General Assembly for the duration, with elections to occur next November.
13 - The "Arkansas-Four" recieve a death sentence. USN and USAF use napalm strikes on Ft. Polk atackers. LeMay makes plans to employ AC-47 gunships in the South.
15 - There is widespread rioting in rsponse to the "Arkansas-Four" death sentence, with Alabama and Arkansas NG participating. Nelson Rockafeller announces the deployment of the 108th Infantry Regiment, New York NG, to Alabama. Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Senator Kennedy, Senator McCarthy, Senator Muskie, Senator Jackson, Congressman Ford, Governor Romney, Governor Rockefeller, and former Vice President Nixon participate in a march in Bimingham. Armed members of the Black Panther Liberation Front occupy Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley.
16 - Texas Rangers break up a KKK rally. Louisiana NG troops "invade" Texas. The Texas NG, Air NG, and State Guard are called to duty, and several counties are placed under martial law. CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia is bombed, killing Admiral Raborn.
17 - A riot breaks out, with shots fired, between KKK protesters and others at the Lincoln Memorial. Pres. Humphrey nominates Richard Helms as new Director of CIA. Police move in and end the occupation of Sproul Hall. Several students and 2 police officers are killed. Huey Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Liberation Front, states "our brothers in arms will be liberated by any means necessary, from Oakland to Selma, from Chicago to Detroit."
18 - The Deacons for Defense and Justice merge into the BPLF.
19 - BPLF set off a car bomb outside a Detroit police statrion.
20 - Texas forces cross into Louisiana. Members of the BPLF rob the Trust and Loans bankin Chicago. Eldridge Cleaver is captured by the 101st in Alabama.
21- SCOTUS agrees to take up Gov. Allen's appeal. George Lincoln Rockwell kills Robert Mantes in Vicksberg and is later arrested in Virginia.
23 - The Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Mississippi is bombed, killing four.
24 - Charges against Rockwell are dropped, but he is detained for questioning regading the Gulfport bombing.
25 - Rockwell is killed in jail by a black prisoner.
27 - A school in Charleston, South Carolina is bombed.
28 - Secretary McNamara threatens to nationalize all state NGs.
You had LBJ send them to Mississippi...
So they were listed as such...
Some notable holes:
NOI has been largely ignored.
The Vietnam War protests have been completely ignored.
Congress has been largely ignored.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 has been ignored.
The Dominican intervention has been completely ignored.
The Battle of Dong-Yin was ignored.
Very little has been said about Europe or Asia.
NOI has been largely ignored.
The Vietnam War protests have been completely ignored.
Congress has been largely ignored.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 has been ignored.
The Dominican intervention has been completely ignored.
The Battle of Dong-Yin was ignored.
Very little has been said about Europe or Asia.
New York Times, May 27, 1965
Dispatch From Occupied Shreveport
SHREVEPORT, LA - It has been four days since the Texas National Guard occupied Shreveport, LA. The city remains under martial law, and the flag of the Lone Star State flies over all government buildings. Many residents have left, and the Texans have not stopped them. Shreveport's Negro residents have viewed the arrival of the Texans more warmly...
...So far, the Texas National Guard has not advanced beyond Bienville Parish. There are reports, unconfirmed as of this writing, that another Texan force is massing in Beaumont. The Louisiana National Guard have avoided further clashes...
Dispatch From Occupied Shreveport
SHREVEPORT, LA - It has been four days since the Texas National Guard occupied Shreveport, LA. The city remains under martial law, and the flag of the Lone Star State flies over all government buildings. Many residents have left, and the Texans have not stopped them. Shreveport's Negro residents have viewed the arrival of the Texans more warmly...
...So far, the Texas National Guard has not advanced beyond Bienville Parish. There are reports, unconfirmed as of this writing, that another Texan force is massing in Beaumont. The Louisiana National Guard have avoided further clashes...
Interview with Retired General William Westmoreland from Vietnam: A Television History*
"I requested the 173rd Airborne be sent to Vietnam instead of National Guard units. The President and Secretary of Defense however wanted to leave the airborne in Okinawa where they were the reaction force for the Pacific command. There was the fear that the Chinese or North Koreans might take advantage of the southern insurrection."
*This is of course the alternate history version of the documentary
"I requested the 173rd Airborne be sent to Vietnam instead of National Guard units. The President and Secretary of Defense however wanted to leave the airborne in Okinawa where they were the reaction force for the Pacific command. There was the fear that the Chinese or North Koreans might take advantage of the southern insurrection."
*This is of course the alternate history version of the documentary
I have been wondering what the British think about what's going on in America. On the pop culture front is there still a British Invasion? I can't see The Beatles wanting to tour in America right now.
"I can neither confirm nor deny that there is an increase of Soviet Troops in East Germany. However, I will warn the Soviet Government that any attempted acts of aggression will be met in full by the United States. We are not so distracted with domestic affairs that we can not uphold our global commitments."
-Secretary of State Dean Rusk during a press conference. May 28, 1965
-Secretary of State Dean Rusk during a press conference. May 28, 1965
Already under way, and has been for a good while. The Beatles famous Ed Sullivan apperance was Feb. 9, 1964, with their first US tour in August 64. Their 65 tour had them arriving at Shea Stadium in a Wells Fargo armored car.... The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Kinks, The Zombies, Dave Clark Five, Dusty Springfield, and The Stones all had top hits in 64. 65 will see The Hollies, Them, The Yardbirds, The Moody Blues, and The Who...
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