11,363 Americans die in Vietnam in 1967 and 228,263 American men are drafted. Large-scale antiwar demonstrations take place in New York, San Francisco and across campuses nationwide. Seventy thousand gather in protest at the Pentagon, where rally organizers attempt to ‘levitate the building to exorcise the evil within.’ Bottom left: Yale chaplain Dr. William Sloane Coffin addresses antiwar protesters at DOJ headquarters as Dr. Benjamin Spock looks on, Oct. 1967. Bottom right: John McCain, age 31, center on his back, being captured and brought out from the Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi, Oct. 26, 1967. At the time, more than 500 US planes had been lost over Vietman with hundreds of US airmen killed or captured.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., age 38, announces his opposition to the Vietnam War in an address at New York's Riverside Church, April 4, 1967. Muhammad Ali, age 25, refuses military induction and is stripped of his heavy-weight title. Ali is shown here in a 1971 match in Zurich.
In the Six-Day War, Israel defeats an Arab coalition of Jordan, Syria and Egypt, seizing the Golan Heights, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. Left: Israeli tanks in the Sinai Desert, June 5, 1967. Right: Egyptian soldiers captured by Isreali forces are made to remove their boots and socks, June 7, 1967.
Thurgood Marshall, shown with President Johnson, becomes the first Black person to serve on the US Supreme Court. In Loving vs. Virginia, the Court strikes down all state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Right: Richard and Mildred Loving.
Elvis Presley, age 31, marries Priscilla Beaulieu, age 21, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Above, with newborn daughter Lisa Marie in 1968. President Johnson's daughter Lynda, age 23, marries Marine Captain Charles Robb, age 28, in the White House. Her former boyfriend, actor George Hamilton, is among the guests.
The supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in France. South African doctor Christiaan Barnard, age 45, carries out the first heart transplant.
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution is adopted, clarifying presidential succession and establishing procedures for filling a vice presidential vacancy and for the temporary transfer of presidential powers. Left: Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952. VP Nixon assumed presidential powers informally in 1955 following Pres. Eisenhower’s heart attack and again, in 1956, when Eisenhower had surgery. Right: VP Dick Cheney on 9/11. Cheney assumed presidential powers under the 25th Amendment in 2002 and 2007 while Pres. Bush underwent colonoscopies.
Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, 40, Ed White, 36, and Roger Chaffee, 31, are killed when a fire breaks out in their spacecraft cabin during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy. Left: the Apollo 1 cabin under construction, 1966. Albert DeSalvo, age 36, who claimed to be the Boston Strangler responsible for killing thirteen women between 1962-1964, is convicted of a series of rapes. Although DeSalvo later recants his confession, DNA evidence gathered years later connects him to one of the murders. He will be stabbed to death by a prison inmate in 1973.
The first Bigfoot video is filmed in Northern California. “In The Heat of the Night,” starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, is awarded the Best Picture Oscar. “The Jungle Book,” the last animated film overseen by Walt Disney, opens in theaters.
The Grateful Dead, The Doors and Pink Floyd release their debut albums and Fleetwood Mac, bottom right, performs before its first live audience.
“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found;
“they forgot where they came from.
“They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
— Carl Sandburg (1878 — 1967)
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I’ll see you on Monday.
— Brenda
Banner image: Among those who died in 1967 wereJack Ruby, J. Robert Oppenheimer…
