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1966 in United States of America — Page 3

Explore 97 historical events and records for United States of America in 1966.

Historical records for United States of America in 1966

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Long Hair

Visconti, Tony · New York · Tony and Siegrid · Arts / Popular Music

Releases Long Hair as part of Tony and Siegrid, an early pop recording before his producer career.

Recording

Springsteen, Bruce · Brick Township · Member of Castiles, The · Arts / Popular Music

Records early material with The Castiles at Mr. Music in New Jersey.

Review of Commission Evidence

Lane, Mark · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Lane structured Rush to Judgment around Warren Commission testimony, exhibits and investigative records, using the Commission's published material to dispute parts of its reconstruction of the assassination.

Rush to Judgment

Lane, Mark · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Lane published Rush to Judgment, challenging the Warren Commission's methods and conclusions and arguing that its inquiry had failed to resolve evidence pointing toward a conspiracy.

Rush to Judgment Publication

Lane, Mark · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Mark Lane published Rush to Judgment with Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1966 as a book-length critique of the Warren Commission's investigation and conclusions.

Sale-TWA

Hughes, Howard · Science / Technology

Hughes sells his TWA stock for $546 million when the company faced numerous lawsuits

Single-Bullet Theory Critique

Lane, Mark · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Lane attacked the Warren Commission's single-bullet explanation and argued that the Commission's reconstruction of the shooting depended heavily on accepting that disputed trajectory.

Space Treaty Agreement Announced

Johnson, Lyndon Baines · Washington · Government / Nuclear Arms Control

President Johnson welcomed the negotiated space treaty as a significant arms control achievement following the agreement reached in December.

The Fortune Cookie

Lemmon, John Uhler "Jack" · Arts / Cinema

Stars in, "The Fortune Cookie"

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Eastwood, Clinton "Clint" · Spain · Film Actor · Arts / Cinema

Stars in The Good the Bad and the Ugly, completing the Dollars trilogy.

The Oswald Affair

Sauvage, Léo · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Sauvage published The Oswald Affair, examining contradictions and omissions in the Warren Report and disputing the official case that identified Oswald as Kennedy's sole assassin.

The Witches

Eastwood, Clinton "Clint" · New York City · Film Actor · Arts / Cinema

Meets Dino De Laurentiis and agrees to appear in the anthology film The Witches opposite Silvana Mangano.

The Witches

Mangano, Silvana · Arts / Cinema

Eastwood meets producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City and agrees to star in a non-Western five-part anthology production named Le Streghe ("The Witches") opposite De Laurentiis wife, actress Silvana Mangano

Toby Award Mame Actress

Lansbury, Angela · Arts / Theatre

Angela Lansbury won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her exuberant title performance in Mame.

Warren Commission Critique

Lane, Mark · Politics / Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Rush to Judgment challenged many of the Warren Commission's central conclusions and argued that its investigation had not adequately resolved evidence suggesting possible conspiracy.

Whats Up, Tiger Lily?

Allen, Woody · Arts / Cinema

Allens first directorial effort is "Whats Up, Tiger Lily?"

Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Nichols, Mike · Arts / Cinema

Directs a screen adaptation of Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

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