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Dist Columbia, District of Columbia in the 1960s: 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Kennedy Hears from a Worried Soviet Premier
    date October 26, 1962 to October 27, 1962map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags War, Foreign Politics, Diplomacy/International

    Between 6:00 and 9:00 PM on the night of Friday October 26, 1962, the tenth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the members of President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security (ExCom) received sections of a long, emotional private message from Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev.  Khrushchev revealed the underlying logic of the Cuban Missile Crisis when he wrote, “I see,...

  2. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 and its Deinstitutionalizing Effect on Saint Elizabeth's Hospital
    date October 31, 1963map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Medicine, Hospital, Space, Health, Government, Law

    Due to a growing need for mental health services, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital was built by the United States Congress as a result of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Act of 1852. The Institution opened in Washington, DC in 1855 as the “Government Hospital for the Insane”. A prominent leader in the mental health field, Dorthea Dix, lobbied for the construction of the facility and founded...

  3. Dr. Timothy Leary Defends Responsible Use of LSD
    date May, 1966 to 1966map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Counterculture, Drug Culture, Government, Law

    By 1966, interest in LSD had proliferated in the public sphere to an enormous extent. The debate over the chemical’s risks and therapeutic possibilities led to Senate subcommittee hearings on its use. Acid, as LSD is commonly called, had been sensationalized by mass media publications and, although in its early years it had been extensively and responsibly studied by medical professionals, the effects...

  4. Muhammad Ali: How One Man's Dissent Illustrates the Story of the American Opposition of the Vietnam War
    date 1967map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Cold War, Draft, Vietnam War, Anti Draft, Anti War

    During the Cold War, the Vietnam War was probably considered one of America's more unnecessary and counterproductive ideas to stop the spreading of Communism. As the American government continued the war with little thought to whom it effected on both sides of the spectrum many people both Black and White, poor and rich and overall different came together as one to protest the continuation of a war...