Jackie Kennedy once expressed fear that the Kennedy Center would “fall into the realm of political patronage” in a letter that’s making rounds in the wake of the cultural institution’s MAGA makeover.

Jackie's 1964 letter to the founding chairman of the Kennedy Center laid out strict demands for how to keep politics out of the national cultural center Art Selby/NBC NewsWire/Getty Jackie Kennedy ...

Country music had quite a heyday in the 1960s. A lot of subgenres were starting to pop up, from the Bakersfield Sound to the early iterations of outlaw country music. In 1964, specifically, quite a ...

The truth is out there — and late President George H.W. Bush apparently knew it — telling a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at a secretive New Mexico air base in 1964, ...

It was 50 years ago today that the 1964–'65 World’s Fair opened in New York City, bringing a plethora of innovative exhibits to Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens. But by the time it closed in ...

The '64 Pontiac GTO is the first of the muscle cars, and this one features a window-rattling V-8 and a four-speed manual transmission. The options on this example are extensive and include suspension ...

At 8 p.m., 73 million people tuned in to CBS to see the Beatles’ debut. Stockbyte via Getty Images One hour. Five songs. Seventy-three million viewers. That’s what it took to cement the Beatles in the ...

A series of storms during the Christmas holiday 60 years ago this month and spilling into the New Year led to widespread flooding in parts of Oregon, Idaho, Washington Nevada and Northern California ...

For the next six weeks, I’m going to be ranking every Billboard #1 hit from 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014 from worst to best in each respective year. I did this in 2023, which you can read the ...

New box set 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono gives the Fab Four's first seven U.S. albums a proper home Game freaking over. They don’t even really need a Side Two, except that’s where George takes his bow ...

America and Britain are two nations separated by salt water, a common language (per George Bernard Shaw) and different Beatlemanias. The U.K. phenomenon in 1963 remains the gold standard for pop ...

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