Nov. 8, 1964 - The St. Louis Cardinals came from behind with three touchdowns in the second half and then held off a late Pittsburgh rush for a 34-30 victory over the Steelers today.

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Nov. 7, 1964 - Enjoy tonight’s game between the fourth-place New York Rangers (4-5) and the third-place Toronto Maple Leafs (4-3) at Maple Leaf Gardens. Jacques Plante was brought up to replace Marcel Paille, out with an ankle injury, in goal for the Rangers.

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Oct. 10, 1964 - Mickey Mantle’s record-breaking 16th World Series home run off reliever Barney Schultz, a tremendous blow off the upper deck in right field, gave the New York Yankees a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals today at Yankee Stadium and a 2-1 edge in the Series.

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Sept. 14, 1964 - Like Beatles fans across the United States, those at Greater Pittsburgh Airport today became hysterical at the sight of the British rock ’n’ roll band. KDKA reporter Al McDowell briefly interviewed drummer Ringo Starr upon the group’s arrival for tonight’s concert at the Civic Arena.

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Sept. 27, 1964 - This two-hour CBS News Extra, “November 22nd and the Warren Report,” features Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather showing taped interviews with witnesses of the Kennedy assassination and those closest to Lee Harvey Oswald. The program also explains the Warren Commission’s findings.

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Sept. 27, 1964 - In this short documentary produced by British Pathé News, the Rolling Stones walk along the side of a road, trying to hitchhike, but they are ignored by passing cars. Eventually, they play a concert in Hull (filmed Sept. 21) where screaming teenagers celebrate their idols.

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Sept. 27, 1964 - Before 22,716 fans at Boston’s Alumni Stadium today, Gino Cappelletti clicked for four field goals (47, 27, 41, and 42 yards) and added two extra points after Babe Parilli tossed a pair of 58-yards touchdown passes to Ron Burton and Jim Colclough as the Boston Patriots beat the New York Jets, 26-10.

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Sept. 17, 1964 - Muhammad Ali brashly declared today he could have knocked out Jack Dempsey in the second round had he fought the Manassa Mauler at his peak.
Muhammad made his Dempsey brag while receiving the Ring Magazine’s world championship belt in a ceremony at the magazine’s headquarters in Madison Square Garden.
Ring publisher Nat Fleischer proclaimed Ali “still world heavyweight champion” despite the fact that the World Boxing Association had stripped young Muhammad of his title last Monday.
When Dempsey was informed of Ali’s remark, Jack diplomatically commented: “You’ve got to expect statements like that from young fighters. Every young champion thinks he could lick any man that ever lived.”
But Mickey Walker, former welterweight and middleweight champion, was less polite as he later sat across the table from Jack in Dempsey’s restaurant.
Said Mickey: “Jack could flatten that Clay bum right now. He can’t fight. Why, with two weeks of training, I could flatten him too.”
Ali announced he would not sue the WBA for declaring his title vacant because of his signing on Monday for a return championship fight with ex-champ Sonny Liston at Boston on Nov. 16.
“Nobody’s paying any attention to the WBA,” explained the fast-talking Ali. “Everybody knows titles are won and lost in the ring.”
Ali’s brag about Dempsey came after the belt presentation, when Muhammad was looking over the wall-hung pictures of 77 former fighters who have been elected to boxing’s Hall of Fame.
As he pointed to various pictures, he asked modestly if this one or that one could have done the “the things I have done so young” and if there was any among them who was as big an attraction he is now — or could have given him a fight.
One of the reporters asked, “What about Jack Dempsey?”“Dempsey,” said Muhammad. “Didn’t he used to fight like this?” Ali imited the Dempsey bob-weave. Then he flashed a right uppercut at the imaginary Dempsey and announced: “In two rounds I’d have taken him out.”
Muhammad grinned and half-apologized by saying:“Maybe I shouldn’t have said that. After all, Jack’s a nice fellow — and sometime I might want to go into his restaurant.”

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Sept. 13, 1964 - The mystery guest on tonight’s episode of “What’s My Line” is Henry Fonda.

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Sept. 2, 1964 - It was a hard day’s night for the Beatles, for some 800 Philadelphia cops and hired protectors, and for the moptops’ thousands of fans — both inside and outside Convention Hall.
But nobody seemed to mind. Nobody seemed to mind that the frantic foursome couldn’t be heard because of the shrieks of joy and screams of agony that filled the air the entire half hour the Beatles were on stage.
Other things filled the air, too. Like jewelry, wrapped gifts, jelly beans, marshmallows, a rubber ball, orange drink cartons, shoes, and sneakers — all rained down on the Liverpool lads.
From the first row in the Hall, you could see the Beatles — but you couldn’t hear them. You couldn’t touch them either because 125 cops, Convention Hall guards, ushers, and private detectives formed a human wall in front of the stage.
The kids were told to stay in their seats. Some obliged — they stood on their seats. Others sat on their parents’ shoulders. And some stood on other kids.
They rocked, they rolled, they jumped, they sank to their knees, they cried, they sighed — all part of enjoying a concert Beatlemaniac style.
The group arrived in Philadelphia in a private bus yesterday afternoon and were smuggled into Convention Hall by way of an underground passage. They used the same route to escape — switching to a limousine on the outside — following their performance before 12,000 hysterical teenagers.
“This is the way it had to be,” said Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary. “It wasn’t that we were protecting the Beatles. We were protecting these girls — from themselves.”
Leary and the upper echelon of the Police Department spent two weeks planning the Beatle invasion. And tonight went so smoothly that Ringo Starr was moved to thank Leary personally.
“You chaps,” Ringo said, “gave us the safest and most orderly protection we’ve had in any city.”
Leary blushed. After what’s been going on in North Philly, this was a lovely way to spend an evening.

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Aug. 30, 1964 - Mrs. Joan Addabbo, 28-year-old president of the Jackson Heights branch of the Parents and Taxpayers Coordinating Council, denounces the New York City Board of Education’s plan to force the transfer of Queens children to schools outside their neighborhoods to achieve racial balance.

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June 29, 1964 - The Beatles arrived in Brisbane, Australia, just after midnight today and were greeted at the airport by 8,000 fans. They were paraded in an open-top truck, but some Beatle haters in the crowd pelted them with food and bits of wood.
The Beatles were quickly taken to their hotel — aptly named Lennons — where they declared there would be “no more unscheduled appearances. For as long as we’re in Brisbane, it’s the hotel and hall for us.”
Their two concerts at the Festival Hall tonight were each seen by 5,500 people, and all tickets sold out well in advance. Once again, the lads from Liverpool were subjected to eggs thrown at the stage, but the Beatles played on, and the miscreants were swiftly ejected from the venue.

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June 25, 1964 - In St. Augustine, Fla., today, state troopers clashed with segregationists in a wild melee on the beach.
The troopers waded into the surf and arrested about a dozen whites who had tried to break up a “swim-in” by civil rights demonstrators.
For the first time, the troopers were under orders to arrest any whites who attempted to bar Negroes from the public beach.
A big crowd of segregationists listened with apparent disbelief and anger as a police captain called through a bullhorn: “Let ‘em go swimming. Stand back and let ‘em in the water.”
There was a growl of disapproval when the captain continued: “Anyone blocking ‘em will be arrested.”
Down the ramp marched some 70 Negroes and two white men. The tide was out. Someone had planted two Confederate flags at the base of the ramp.The beach was broad enough for the police to line up a dozen squad cars on either side. As the Negroes walked slowly toward the water, 100 policemen closed in to seal them from the white crowd.
But the racists — the same crowd of whites that had successfully blocked the Negroes yesterday and again this morning, were already knee-deep in the water.“Come on in, you black bastards,” yelled one of the mob.
The Negroes tried to outflank their white adversaries.
They walked a little way up the beach and then entered the water. About 30 were knee-deep in the surf when the white mob, led by a tall blond woman in a white bathing suit, charged into the water.
The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a Negro clergyman from Birmingham, Ala., was knocked off his feet.
Then the police waded in. They wrestled the white racists away from the Negroes, using clubs on whites who resisted. The Negroes had made no attempt to defend themselves.
A white youth, blood streaming from his head, was led to a squad car. The mob, reportedly infiltrated by members of the Ku Klux Klan, now turned its ire against the state police.
A deputy sheriff was heard protesting that the state police should have arrested the Negroes.
“Those finks!” cried a woman in disgust. “They didn’t beat the n*****s at all!”The arrested whites, as well as four or five young Negroes who were also detained, were taken to a National Guard armory at the edge of the city.“Get those n*****s out of here,” screamed one of the arrested whites when he saw that the armory was not segregated.
Two women, including the blonde leader of the charge, were among those held for disorderly conduct.

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June 19, 1964 - Birthday presents rained on Beatle Paul McCartney throughout the Beatles’ two Sydney Stadium concerts last night in Australia.
About 20,000 wildly ecstatic fans made it Paul’s night — yesterday was his 22nd birthday — and turned the performances into a deafening celebration.
As the Stadium filled with the pulsing sound of Beatle music and a fanatical chorus of teenage squeals, young girls ran down aisles to toss birthday gifts at Paul’s feet.
Jelly baby sweets rained from the ringside. A bouquet of roses and several single flowers joined the presents, which included a toy koala, a boomerang, and a large wrapped box.
Both concerts finished with people jumping on their seats and screeching with excitement. The stage was a litter of streamers and gifts.
When the Beatles played “This Boy,” with Paul in the center, the passionate screams of approval were deafening.
Despite the mass screaming, the Beatles could be clearly heard in all numbers except one.
That was when George Harrison looked at his watch and announced in his thick Liverpool accent: “The clock says this next number will have to be our last,” and swung the long-haired four into “Long Tall Sally.”
Thousands shrilled, shouted, clapped, and jumped in a finale frenzy.
Then it was all over, and the Beatles ran for their dressing room.
Delirious teens rushed towards them but found about 30 policemen forming a guard.
The police had little difficulty keeping the traffic moving smoothly before and after the concerts, and a police officer said the behavior of the fans was “exemplary.”
One policeman said: “We had more fuss than this for Johnny Ray.”
Souvenir sellers had a lean time for much of the evening, and several reported that sales of Beatles badges, programs, wigs, and “I’m a Beatle Fan” cards were poor.

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Dec. 15, 1963 - Here are some highlights from today's game between the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns at D.C. Stadium. The Browns won the NFL contest, 27-20.

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Dec. 8, 1963 - Here is a clip from today's game between the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns at Tiger Stadium. The Lions won the NFL contest, 38-10.

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Dec. 8, 1963 - Here is a clip from today's game between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers at the Cotton Bowl. The Steelers won the NFL contest, 34-19.

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Dec. 8, 1963 - Here is a clip from today's game between the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers at Wrigley Field. The Bears won the NFL contest, 27-7.

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Nov. 22, 1963 - Here is the first televised report of the shooting of President Kennedy on WFAA-TV Dallas.

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Aug. 17, 1963 - Lee H. Oswald, 23, was interviewed today on New Orleans radio station WDSU. Oswald was arrested Friday on Canal Street while distributing pro-Castro pamphlets asking for “Fair Play for Cuba." Police were called to the scene when three anti-Castro Cubans sought to stop Oswald. On this clip, Oswald discusses his personal background and his thoughts on Cuba.

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Sept. 28, 1962 - William L. Higgs, an attorney and civil rights advocate from Jackson, explains the challenges Mississippi Negroes face in trying to gain voting rights.

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