Time Capsule: 1965

News & Economy

President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey

Population: 194,302,963
Life expectancy: 70.2 years

Dow-Jones High: 969
Dow-Jones Low: 867

Cost of a new home: $21,500.00
Cost of a new car: $--
Median Household Income: $--
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
Cost of a gallon of gas: $0.31
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.53
Cost of a gallon of milk: $0.95

News Headlines

Malcolm X Assassinated In Harlem 

Soviet Cosmonaut Leonov First Man To Float In Space 

Watts Ghetto Riots Leave 34 Dead 

25,000 March On Washington To Protest War 

LBJ Stops Bombing And Offers Peace 

Supreme Court Strikes Down Compulsory Anti-Birth Control Laws 

Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965 

Stolen Gems Found; Murph The Surf Held 

LBJ Sends 50,000 More Troops To Vietnam 

US Forces Authorized To Fight In Vietnam

Music

Billboard Top 10
1. Name Game, The - Shirley Ellis 
2. Lover's Concerto, A - The Toys 
3. This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys 
4. Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys 
5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin - The Righteous Brothers 
6. Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs 
7. 1-2-3 - Len Barry 
8. Treat Her Right - Roy Head & The Traits 
9. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher 
10. Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire

Top Albums
• Beatles '65 - Beatles 
• Goldfinger - Soundtrack 
• Mary Poppins - Soundtrack 
• Out of our Heads - Rolling Stones 
• Roustabout - Elvis Presley

Grammy Awards

Album of the Year: 
September of My Years, Frank Sinatra
Best New Artist: Tom Jones
Best Pop Duo or Group: 
“Flowers on the Wall,” Statler Brothers
Best Pop Female Vocal: 
My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand
Best Pop Male Vocal: 
“It Was a Very Good Year,” Frank Sinatra 
Record of the Year:
“A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Song of the Year: 
“The Shadow of Your Smile” (Theme From The Sandpiper)

Movies

Top 5 Movie Money Makers
The Sound of Music -$163,214,286 
Doctor Zhivago -$111,722,000 
Thunderball -$63,600,000 
The Greatest Story Ever Told -$8,000,000 
The Sons of Katie Elder -$6,000,000

Academy Awards

Best Actor: Lee Marvin: Cat Ballou
Best Actress: Julie Christie: Darling
Best Director: Robert Wise: The Sound of Music
Best Picture: The Sound of Music
Best Supporting Actor: Martin Balsam: A Thousand Clowns
Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters: A Patch of Blue

Television

Americas Top 10 TV Favorites
1. Bonanza
2. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
3. The Lucy Show
4. The Red Skelton Hour
5. Batman (II)
6. The Andy Griffith Show
7. Bewitched
8. The Beverly Hillbillies
9. Hogan's Heroes
10. Batman (I)

Emmy Awards

Drama...
Best Drama - The Fugitive (ABC)
Best Actor - Dick Van Dyke, The Dick Van Dyke Show
Best Actress - Barbara Stanwyck, The Big Valley

Comedy...
Best Comedy - The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)

Sports

Football
Pro Football Championship:
Green Bay 23 - Cleveland 12
Pro MVP:
Jim Brown, Cleveland, FB & Pete Retzlaff, Philadelphia, TE

College Football Champion:
Alabama
Heisman Trophy:
Mike Garrett, USC, HB

Basketball
NBA Championship:
Boston Celtics over LA Lakers 4-1
NBA MVP:
Bill Russell, Boston

NCAA National Champions:
UCLA 28-2

Baseball
World Series Champs:
LA Dodgers over Minnesota 4-3
National League
Willie Mays, SF
Rookie of the Year: Jim Lefebvre, LA
American League
MVP: Zoilo Versalles, Min
Rookie of the Year: Curt Blefary, Bal

Odds 'N Ends

"The Vietcong are going to collapse within weeks", National Security Advisor 

Get Smart and The Wild Wild West are hit new TV shows 

Omar Sharif and Julie Cristie star in Dr. Zhivago at movie theaters 

NBC starts early evening news programs 

Sam Sham and the Pharaohs make "Wooly Bully" a hit 

Sonny and Cher have a hit with "I Got You Babe" 

Up The Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman is on the Best Sellers list 

Silicon chips are introduced 

New Words; Flower Power, discotheque, kook, dude, groupie, no way 

Astrodome is the first domed stadium 

Diet Pepsi, Cranapple, Apple Jacks make their first appearance 

San Francisco group The Grateful Dead make there first appearance 

90% of silver is removed from coins, only a "clad" cover is silver  

105 Cadets at the Air Force Academy resign for cheating 

Watts riots requires 14,000 National guardsmen to be called bikes