Homes for Indian nannies
Sherlock Holmes
Christabel Pankhurst
Suffragette Sophia Duleep Singh
Captain Scott's Diary
Suffragettes protest
Indians on the Western Front
World War I
Russian Revolution
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
The General Strike
The Great Depression
Gandhi in Britain
British Union of Fascists
Appeasement
Kristallnacht
Wanted poster for Hitler
World War II ultimatum letter
The Keys
Dunkirk evacuation
Dig for Victory
Make Do and Mend
Auschwitz survivor
The Atom Bomb
Independence and Partition
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
NHS established
Immigration from India
Windrush: post-war immigration
Chinese restaurants
Middle Eastern food
Wolfenden Report
Paul Robeson's Othello
Man lands on the moon
Cuban Missile Crisis
Assassination of Kennedy
Beatles arrive in the USA
Mods and Rockers
England win the World Cup
Robert Kennedy Assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King
Student protests, Paris
Women's liberation
Punk fanzine
The Oz trial
The Black Panther
President Nixon resigns
The Sex Pistols
Charles and Diana marry
Tiananmen Square massacre
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Release of Nelson Mandela
Peace declared: Northern Ireland
The Belfast Agreement
Where were you when you heard the news? People alive in the 1960s are still asked this question about the day US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was after all one of the most powerful men in the world. The event shook the world. The president had been shot whilst driving through Dallas in a convertible limousine with his beautiful wife, Jackie. Kennedy was a hugely popular president - charismatic, forward-looking and strong-minded - and his image became a benchmark for every subsequent presidential candidate.
Just two days after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald, the man believed to be JFK's murderer, was himself killed. A Dallas nightclub owner had shot Oswald, claiming he 'did it for Jackie'. There are many conspiracy theories questioning whether Oswald was really was the killer, including rumours of gangsters, the Russians, even the CIA being involved.
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