Cosmic Microwave Background
Roll works with Wilkinson on an experiment to search for relic microwave radiation
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1964 in United States of America — Page 8
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Cosmic Microwave Background
Wilkinson helps build a radiometer intended to detect the predicted microwave background
Cosmic Microwave Background
Wilson detects the same persistent microwave noise with the Holmdel horn antenna
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and examines witness testimony from Dealey Plaza.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and questions witnesses on assassination evidence.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission during its inquiry into the assassination.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and works on firearms, ballistics, and medical evidence
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and works on evidence concerning Jack Ruby.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and examines Jack Ruby's background and actions.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and works on background investigations connected with Oswald.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission and examines witness and evidentiary material
Counsel
Works as Warren Commission staff counsel and helps organize legal analysis for the Commission report.
Counsel
Serves as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission during the final report and supporting-volume work.
Coup
Sends a U.S. naval force towards Brazil to prevent a leftist takeover
Cuba Influence Examination
The Warren Commission examined whether foreign or Cuban influence had any connection to Ruby's shooting of Oswald and reported no evidence establishing such influence.
Cuban Consulate Evidence Review
The Commission examined testimony and records concerning Oswald's contacts with Cuban diplomatic officials in Mexico City.
Cuban Payment Allegation Review
The Commission found no evidence that Oswald received a large payment from Cuban or other sources during his Mexico City trip.
Cuban Visa Investigation
The Commission determined that Oswald did not obtain Cuban permission to enter Cuba during his Mexico City trip.
Death of Douglas MacArthur
Death of Douglas MacArthur
Defection of Nosenko
Angleton was also responsible for the incarceration of Yuri Nosenko, a Soviet defector who arrived in the U.S. with the seemingly unwelcome news that the KGB had had no interest in Oswald during his tenure in the Soviet Union. Angleton and other Counterintelligence officers were convinced that Nosenko was a
Defection of Nosenko
but did not use his information in its publications
Defection of Nosenko
false defector sent by the KGB on a mission. Nosenko is locked in a small room and interrogated for more than three years, while a battle raged within the CIA over his bona fides. Because this issue was unresolved during the Warren Commission's tenure, the Commission received reports about him
Density Functional Theory
Provides the theoretical foundation for modern density-functional calculations.
Density Functional Theory for Electrons
With Pierre Hohenberg, establishes that the ground-state properties of interacting electrons are determined by the electron density.
Deputy Ambassador
Appointed Deputy Ambassador of South Vietnam
Deputy Ambassador
Appointed Deputy Ambassador of South Vietnam
Deputy Defence Secretary
Appointed Deputy Defence Secretary
Deputy Defence Secretary
Appointed Deputy Defence Secretary
Domestic Operations Covert Action Work
Hunt continued managing covert-action responsibilities within the Domestic Operations Division during the middle of the 1960s.
Dr. Strangelove
Directs Dr. Strangelove, a black comedy satirizing nuclear strategy and Cold War command structures.
Education
Completes his undergraduate education at UCLA, majoring in film
Election
Appointed Republican candidate for President but defeated by Lyndon Johnson
Election
A television commercial called Daisy, promotes Democrat Lyndon Johnson's presidential candidacy, invoking the fear of a nuclear war and is an element in Johnson's subsequent election
Election
Just before the 1964 presidential election, President Johnson orders the Warren Commission documentation to be sealed against public availability for 75 years (until 2039)
Election
Elected to a full six-year term and reelected seven more times
Election
Elected Senator, victor of the Republican New Hampshire primary, defeating Goldwater & Rockefeller
Emmy Award Comedy Performance
Dick Van Dyke won the Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series for The Dick Van Dyke Show.
FBI
Hosty is one of 12 agents reprimanded for investigative improprieties after the release of the Warren Report, and was transferred to the FBI's Kansas City office until his mandatory retirement in 1979
FBI
Hosty is one of 12 agents reprimanded for investigative improprieties after the release of the Warren Report, and was transferred to the FBIs Kansas City office until his mandatory retirement in 1979
FBI
Sometime after being spectrographically examined by the FBI in 1964 the FBI slides containing the trace physical elements of a bullet on the curbstone scar chip disappeared from the evidence
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