The Spring brings anti-war demonstrations. 100,000 in New York , 50,000 in San Francisco with thousands more marching on the Pentagon. Dr. Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg arrested.
Senator Eugene McCarthy begins his run as a Democratic candidate for president under the banner or withdrawal from Vietnam.
Thurgood Marshall who argued and won a unanimous decision in the famous 1954 school segregation case Brown V Education is nominated and sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice.
The House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of
Harlem. A few months later voters defy Congress and reelect him.
Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering which was commuted in 1971.
25th Amendment is ratified - Presidential Disability and Succession law goes into effect.
The Supreme Court hears Loving vs Virginia and unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages.
Serial killers Albert DeSalvo and Richard Speck are sentenced to life in prison.
Nobel
Prizes 1967
Physics - Hans Albrecht Bethe Chemistry - Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter Physiology or Medicine - Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald Literature - Miguel Ángel Asturias Peace - not awarded
With an escalating war in Vietnam becoming more unpopular in the Spring hundreds of thousands demonstrate against the war and the coming Summer 70 cities succumb to race riots with hundreds dead. With the culture in flux Lyndon Johnson take the role of King Lear. 1967 Man of the Year cover story
The World 1967
After a fight broke out between Syria and Israel over water rights the Arab world militarized. On June 5th 1967 Israel went to war with Egypt directed at the military buildup in the Sinai knocking out their airfore.Within 6 days the Israelis had taken Gaza, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. And the fight goes on...
During the war on the Sinai Israeli jets fired upon the USS Liberty in Mediterranean 12 miles offshore killing 34 U.S. crewmen. Though officially considered an unintentional mistake by both Israel and the United States some do not believe it.
China takes only 2 years to go from Atomic to Hydrogen.
