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Start of the new decade
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1960 Presidential Campaign
The battle between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy had become a reality -
Dallas has a new sports team
Dallas has two football teams The Dallas Texans and the Dallas Cowboys. -
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JFK Campaign
The time when JFK was in office -
Nixon visits Dallas
Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon visits Dallas, to give a speech promoting his campaign. -
JFK visits Dallas as a retort to Nixon
JFK visit Dallas following a downtown parade, Kennedy gives speech promoting his campaign -
LBJ is Barrated in Dallas
Vice-President candidate Lyndon B. Johnson jeered by pro-Nixon crowd at a Hotel. -
Female Federal judge
Sarah T. Hughes becomes first female federal judge in North Texas (great achievement for the time). -
JFK comes back to Dallas
President Kennedy makes a second trip to Dallas, to visit ailing Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Air Force One lands at Love Field, and JFK is taken straight to see Rayburn. President departs immediately afterward. -
Lawsuit that caused school desegregation to occurs
As the result of a lawsuit brought by a private citizen, the Dallas School District is ordered by a federal court to put in the "stair-step" racial integration of schools (one grade each year until all grades are desegregated). -
RFK visits Dallas
Robert F. Kennedy visits Dallas, addressing the Associated Press Managing Editors Conference. In his speech, RFK praises Dallas for its peaceful progress in desegregating public schools. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Missles were discovered in Cuba and it was nationally annouced by JFK we were willing to use military force to solve this issue. -
More Desegregation
Dallas public parks and swimming pools are de-segregated -
MLK Talks in Dallas
Black Civil Rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has a speech to promote a poll tax rally -
Guy from the U.N. gets domed
U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson spat upon and struck over the head with a picket sign outside Memorial Auditorium. -
JFK Assassination
The day JFK was shot in a street in Dallas and Lyndon B. Johnson took control of office for the last year of the presidents term -
LHO Dies after assassinating the President
While being transferred to county jail, Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Oswald is taken to Parkland Hospital, where he dies. -
Controversy
On the same day as President Kennedy's funeral in Washington, D.C., Lee Harvey Oswald is buried at Fort Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery. -
End of the decade