January • Lerner & Lowe's Camelot closes
on Broadway after 873 performances at
February • Medicare is submitted to
Congress by President Kennedy (it would
be passed after his death under President
March • Profumo sex scandal rocks Britain
April • Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. arrested and jailed in Birmingham,
Alabama during a desegregation drive
completes 22.5 orbits of the earth aboard
Faith-7, the last mission of NASA's Project
June • JFK, on 10-day European tour,
gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at
July • U.S. "Zone Improvement Plan" or
August • The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream"
speech before a crowd of over 200,000
gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in
September • "She Loves You" by the
Beatles tops the charts for three
October • Demolition begins on the 53
year old marble & granite Pennsylvania
Station in New York City. The senseless
loss of the beautiful structure spurs
interest in architectural preservation in the
November • U.S. President John F.
Kennedy assassinated in Dallas,
Texas...Vice-President Lyndon B.
involvement in the Southeast Asian
conflict was still two years away, by the
