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New Orleans is once the home of real

life pirates like the notorious Jean

Lefit. So what better place for the

Pirates of the Caribbean show than right

here. The newspaper and television

reporters were out in force to cover the

grand opening.

>> 1966 was a year of firsts. It brought

the first pitching outing from Nolan

Ryan and the first chart topping hit

from the Trogs, which was a wild thing

that made our hearts sing. 67 would see

the founding of the Hyundai car company,

the invention of the logo computer

programming language, and the release of

the first board game that would let you

sink your best friend's battleship.

>> YOU GOT MY BATTLESHIP.

>> But wait, there's more. Pink Floyd put

out their first single. Hank Aaron hits

his only inside the park home run. And

someone got the bright idea to cast

Peter Sers as James Bond in Casino

Royale.

>> The name's Bond.

James Bond. Not that casino royale.

>> Welcome to France, Mr. Bolt.

>> There you go. And now we're going to

take you through the news, culture,

sports, entertainment, and all that was

weird in 1967

because this is Timeline.

Okay, watch out for tribles because this

one is all about 1967. But before we get

started, be sure to subscribe to the

Weird History channel and let us know

what aspects of the 60s you're most

interested to hear about in the comments

below. Now, are you ready to learn what

happened the year Grace Slick went

looking for somebody to love?

>> I'm out to win myself. Now, sign off and

don't bother me.

>> By 1967, every young American male faced

the possibility of being drafted into

the army and sent to Vietnam. Beach Boy

Carl Wilson was scheduled to appear

before his local draft board on January

3rd, but he never showed up. 17 days

later, he would file for conscientious

objector status, but that's not really

how that works. So, he would

subsequently be indicted, arrested, and

sentenced to community service, which he

also failed to show up for. Woman who

phoned in the complaint said he was

painted up like an Indian.

>> Yeah.

>> Reality, man. Reality. I I could see the

center of the earth creation in real.

>> What's your name, son?

>> Don't you know my name? My name's Blue

Boy.

>> What do you think, Joe? Card wheels?

Sugar cubes? I'll make you book. He's

been dropping that acid we've been

hearing about.

>> On January 14th, between 20 and 30,000

people showed up to San Francisco's

Golden Gate Park for the human be. The

event, which was intended to ease

tensions between anti-war activists,

free speech activists in the burgeoning

hippie movement, included speakers like

Timothy Liry,

>> Turn on, tune in, and drop out,

>> and bands like the Grateful Dead. The

massive turnout stunned Americans,

turning Hate Ashberry into a destination

for young people and kicking off the

summer of love. The Rolling Stones were

set to appear on the Ed Sullivan show on

January 15th, and the band was planning

to perform their hit, Let's Spend the

Night Together, but producers thought it

was too risque and asked them to change

its lyrics to the conspicuously blander,

"Let's spend some time together."

Despite their bad boy reputation, the

Stones acquested. McJagger, however, was

careful to roll his eyes at the camera

every time he sang the altered lyric.

The Stones were willing to work with

Sullivan. But the Doors, well, not so

much. The group appeared on the show

September 17th to play their hit, Light

My Fire. Sullivan, however, asked them

to change the line, "Girl, we couldn't

get much higher." Singer Jim Morrison

agreed, but when the time came, Morrison

definitely sang the original lyric,

prompting Sullivan to ban them for life.

The first low orbit test for the Apollo

program was scheduled for February 21st,

but it would never come to pass. That's

because during a rehearsal on January

27th, a cabin fire broke out, destroying

the module and tragically killing crew

members Gus Gryom, Ed White, and Roger

B. Chaffy. A subsequent investigation

found that the fire started with an

electrical problem. These men were

breathing pure oxygen. They, in a sense,

were part of this millisecond disaster.

If there is anything that can be

rationalized about their deaths, it

undoubtedly was instantaneous.

>> I'm not nervous. I just

>> You're nervous. I know you're nervous.

I'm not nervous.

>> Well, admit it. You're nervous.

>> I'm not nervous.

>> You mean you're not? Not even a little

bit.

>> I'm not nervous at all. Threw up a

little while ago. Okay.

>> Well, I knew nervous at all.

>> I knew he was nervous because the first

moment I saw you this morning, you

looked upset to me, but it's

understandable. You know, this is the,

you know, first show, big comedy show

for us. And, you know, I'm a little bit

nervous myself.

>> Really? Why don't you throw up? You'll

feel a lot better.

On Valentine's Day, Artha Franklin

headed to Atlantic Recording Studios to

record a cover of Otis Reading's 1965

hit, Respect, a fan of the original

Artha had taken to performing it at

concerts a few years earlier. With a

little help from her sisters, Emma and

Carolyn, she gender flipped the lyrics

and rejiggered the rhythm section of the

arrangement to reflect her personal

style of stop and stutter syncopation.

By June 3rd, it would be number one in

the US, making it Franklin's first hit.

This episode of Timeline is brought to

you by

>> I'm going to show you how McDonald's

builds a a Big Mac sandwich. It starts

here with a lightly toasted bun and then

a pure beef hamburger, slice of cheddar

blend cheese, and some crisp fresh

lettuce. Then our own secret sauce.

Crisp dill pickles and the sesame seed

crown. This is the sandwich. McDonald's

new Big Mac sandwich for the bigger than

average appetite.

>> McDonald is your better place.

>> In 1922, an unidentified woman

recovering from a suicide attempt in

Germany claimed that she was the Russian

Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, who was

presumed dead. The woman, who would

become known as Anna Anderson, was

dismissed as an impostor by Anastasia's

family, but received support from

several of her acquaintances.

Nonetheless, on February 28th, 1967, the

Hamburg court rejected Anderson's claim.

Decades later, a DNA test would show

Anderson was actually Franciscoca

Shanskowska, a Polish factory worker

with a history of mental illness.

Speaking of Russia, on March 9th,

Svetana Aluyava, the only daughter of

Joseph Stalin, made headlines by

defecting to the United States. After my

father's death, I have lost maybe a lot

of faith.

>> Allelu Yuva made the decision in India

where she had traveled to spread the

ashes of Kunoir Braes Singh, the man she

loved but was legally forbidden to

marry. After she contacted the American

embassy, Ambassador Charles BS reminded

her she still had children in Russia,

but quickly granted her request after

she threatened to tell the world that

the US refused her. In November of 1966,

the Beatles began work on Sergeant

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the

album that would mark the transition

from the experimental, albeit still

mostly traditional vibe of Rubber Soul

and the considerably more eclectic

material that was still to come. To

design its cover, the group reached out

to pop artists Peter Blake and Jan

Howeth, who, according to legend, came

up with the idea of a photograph of the

fictional Lonely Hearts Club band posing

with an audience they had performed for.

That photograph, which would depict the

band in front of a collage of famous

faces including May West, Alistister

Crowley, Lenny Bruce, Laurel and Hardy,

and former Beatle Stuart Sutcliff, was

then taken on March 30th.

>> If you look closely at the album cover,

you'll see two people who are flying and

two who aren't.

That's just a little in joke.

>> Perhaps you do the courtesy to inform

Mrs. Stalin that her cousin is calling

and wishes to pay his respects.

Oh. Uh. Uh, would you like to wait in

the drawing room?

>> Here would be fine. Thank you.

>> A man with a face long familiar to those

who live at Colinwood. A man who has

come a great distance, but who still

bears deep within him a soul shaped by

the far country from which he came.

>> Oh, madam,

if you would, you may tell her that it's

Barnabas Collins.

To sh up their alien pitching line, the

New York Mets signed rookie pitcher Tom

Siver, who was only available to them

because they won a lottery after his

contract with the Atlanta Braves was

voided. Sver's first start for the Mets

ended in a no decision. But thanks to

the home run from Tommy Davis and saved

by Ed Shaw, Sver would earn himself the

first win of his career. On April 20th,

Elvis Presley married Priscilla Bolu on

May 1st. The wedding, which lasted just

8 minutes, took place in a private suite

in the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Elvis

wore black tux and Priscilla wore an off

the rack or gown and a rhinestone tiara.

The couple then celebrated at a

reception with roughly 100 guests where

they danced their first dance to Elvis's

Love Me Tender.

>> That was one of the most thrilling

hockey games I've ever seen. Well, it's

a ring game for us, board, and uh

especially this centennial year and and

to beat a great hockey like Montreal

Canadians, their fans can certainly be

proud of them, and we're proud that we

were able to beat them. They're a great

hockey team.

>> The 1967 Stanley Cup final found the

Toronto Maple Leafs facing off against

the Montreal Canadians. The last Stanley

Cup final in the original six era went

six games before the Maple Leafs won it

four games to two. The Leafs had an

average age of 31, making them the

oldest lineup to ever win the cup. And

hopefully they enjoyed the victory

because the team hasn't made it back to

the Stanley Cup final since. 100 Years

of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is

considered by some as one of the

greatest novels ever written, and it was

first published in Buenosaris on May

30th.

>> This is the greatest novel written in

any language since William Faulner died.

It told truths of human nature. The

book, which follows seven generations of

the Buendia family in the fictional town

of Mando, would turn out to be a

landmark entry in the genre of magical

realism and one of the key works that

would earn Marquez a Nobel Prize in

literature in 1982.

>> It's another long court fight in front

of us and you just have to be patient.

But the wheels of justice grind slowly.

In 1959, Richard Loving, a white man,

and Mildred Loving, a woman of native

and African-American ancestry, were

convicted of violating a Virginia law

that criminalized marriage between

whites and non-whites.

>> What did they tell you you had to do?

Were you supposed to divorce

a state?

>> The couple appealed their conviction to

the US Supreme Court. And on June 12th,

1967, the court unanimously struck down

the law for violating the equal

protection clause. The decision ended

all race-based restrictions on marriage

in the US.

>> Sydney Poier in a role worthy of his

Academy Award-winning talents as the

teacher who joins battle with the

wildest set of rebels London ever

produced.

>> What is the matter?

>> Those kids are devils incarnate.

>> So sorry.

>> And introducing Lulu, one of England's

favorite pop singers.

>> Look at me. I am a lady. I am.

>> What are we going to talk about, sir?

about life, survival, love.

>> To serve with love is a special kind of

motion picture striking at the heart of

what it means to be gun. Man is now

going to demonstrate the proper

procedure for shaving and bathing in the

field. Blake, dry shave him.

>> Now,

BRYCEMAN, THAT'S RIGHT. YOU'D BE GOOD

ENOUGH TO HAVE YOUR MEN DISPOSE OF THEIR

WEAPONS.

>> You must be out of your mind. It might

seem that way. The human be may have

kicked off the summer of love, but the

Monterey Puff Festival held in Monterey,

California from June 16th to 18th is

what turbocharged it. The festival,

which served as most of the world's

introduction to hippies and flower

power, featured acts like the Steve

Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Country

Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat, The

Birds, Eric and the Animals, Simon and

Garf Uncle, the Mamas and the Papas, and

the Grateful Dead. It also had the first

major US performances by The Who and The

Jimmyi Hendricks Experience and the

first large-scale show by Jennice

Joplain. The first multinational

multi-satellite television production

was called Our World and it went live on

June 25th. There are the satellites,

Early Bird and Canary Bird over the

Atlantic Ocean and NASA's ATS1 and Lani

Bird over the Pacific.

>> 14 countries participated, yielding an

audience of somewhere between 400 and

700 million people. The show featured

famous artists like conductor Leonard

Bernstein and opera singer Heather

Harper, but the highlight was a

partially live recording session with

the Beatles, during which the Fab Four

recorded vocals, bass, guitar, drums,

and an orchestra over backing tracks to

their now classic tune, All You Need Is

Love.

>> This episode of Timeline is brought to

you by

>> Who's Got Time to make dinner when

you're busy making history? Colonel

Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken tastes

great and it's so convenient you can get

it right in your neighborhood. Lady

Gdiva didn't stop to fix dinner. Why

should you? You make history.

>> The first real ATM or automatic teller

machine was invented by a team led by

inventor John Shepard Baron who said, "I

hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar

dispenser but replacing chocolate with

cash." His first machine was installed

at Barkclay's Bank and Field to North

London on June 27th. And to drama

publicity, the first person to use it

was English actor Re Barney, then famous

for his role as Stan Butler in the

sitcom On the Buses. Speaking of

England, on July 4th, Parliament passed

the Sexual Offenses Act 1967, legalizing

consensual adult homosexual acts in both

England and Wales, where they had been

illegal since the Middle Ages. The law

would then be extended to cover Scotland

in 1980 and Northern Ireland in 1982.

>> Almost certain the person who did it is

right hand.

>> So what? Oh, Harve's left hand. Chief,

nobody in town knows that.

>> Yeah. Uh, that's what we figured out.

Chief Harvey's a lefty. Uh-huh.

>> Well, you were pretty sure of yourself,

ain't you, Virgil? Virgil? That's a

funny name for a boy that comes from

Philadelphia. What do they call you up

there?

>> They call me Mr. Tibs. On August 14th,

celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon was

rushed to the Paramount Lot in Hollywood

to give Mia Pharaoh the trend setting

pixie cut she wore in the film

Rosemary's Baby.

>> What have you done to it?

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ITS EYES?

>> He made $5,000 for his work. But after

Cassoon's death in 2012, Pharaoh claimed

she had given herself the haircuts days

earlier, and Cissoon merely neatened it

a bit. Turns out the whole thing was a

publicity stunt cooked up by director

Roman Palansky to promote the movie. The

Fugitive came to an end on August 29th

when Richard Kimell and Lieutenant

Gerard finally confronted the one-armed

man who killed Kimell's wife.

>> YOU KILLED MY WIFE, DIDN'T YOU? You

killed her. Why? Cuz you wouldn't let me

go.

>> The episode was watched by 78 million

viewers or 46% of all American

households. Since then, the finale of

the miniseries Roots and the series

finales of Cheers and MASH are the only

scripted television episodes to draw

larger audiences. As of 1967, no person

of color had ever been nominated to the

US Supreme Court. President Lyndon

Johnson, however, was determined to

solidify his civil rights legacy. So,

when a seat on the court opened up, he

nominated African-American Solicitor

General Thug Good Marshall.

>> I'm an advocate and I represent the

United States government and I'll do it

in the best I can. The lawyer who won

the landmark case Brown v. Board of

Education, which brought an end to

legalized segregation in public

education, would be confirmed on August

30th. Before he settled on Marshall,

Johnson's wife, Ladybird, suggested

nominating a woman. It didn't go that

way, however, and the court wouldn't get

its first female justice for some time.

That justice would be Sandra Day

Okconor, formerly a state judge and

elected official from Arizona. Okconor

was nominated by Ronald Reagan and

confirmed by unanimous vote of the

Senate on September 21st, 1981.

>> As the first woman to be nominated as a

Supreme Court Justice, I'm particularly

honored and I happily share the honor

with millions of American women of

yesterday and of today. Welcome to our

our first show that we're doing. I'm

real excited and very very happy that

you're all with us tonight. Could you

bump up the lights so I could see? Woo!

Gorgeous.

>> If you have any questions at all you'd

like to ask, don't hesitate.

>> That's all the time we have now.

>> On September 17th, the same night Jim

Morrison blew off Ed Sullivan. Keith

Moon blew out Pete Townson's ear.

>> Over here, the guy plays a sloppy drum.

>> What's your name?

>> Keith. Keith. My friends call me Keith.

You can call me John. The Who was

appearing on the Smother's brothers

comedy hour to play their hit My

Generation and Moon Plan to end the song

by blowing up his bass drum with

gunpowder. It wasn't the first time he

did it, but for the TV audience, he used

more powder than usual. When the charge

detonated, Tarus Townson was just a

meter away. The explosion set his hair

on fire and permanently damaged his

hearing.

This episode of Timeline is brought to

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>> Nothing Takes It Off like Nima

Medicated.

Take it off. Take it all off.

Nothing takes it off.

The closer

you shake,

the more you need

medicated comfort shave.

To compete with air travel, the Kunard

line decided to replace their aging

flagships, the Queen Elizabeth and Queen

Mary, with newer, albeit smaller models.

The QE2 was launched on September 20th

and it was christened by Queen Elizabeth

II herself.

>> I name this ship Queen Elizabeth II.

>> Despite this, the Kunard line maintains

the ship isn't named after her, but is

rather just the second ship to bear the

name Queen Elizabeth. On October 20th,

filmmakers Roger Patterson and Robert

Gamlin were shooting a pseudo

documentary about cowboys hunting for

Bigfoot in the woods of Northern

California when one of them spotted the

creature itself. They managed to capture

some shaky footage of the alleged

Sasquatch. And over the next few

decades, that film would get massive

amounts of publicity from both believers

and skeptics alike, bringing the legend

a level of attention it had never had

before. Muhammad Resa Pavi became the

Sha of Iran in 1941. But it wouldn't be

until 1967 that he was coronated as

Shahin Sha or King of Kings. According

to the man himself, he felt he didn't

deserve the title up until that point

because his country had been so

impoverished. The country's growing oil

wealth changed all that, however, and

the Shaw was finally crowned king on

October 26th. October 26th was also the

day future presidential candidate John

McCain was flying his 23rd bombing

mission over North Vietnam when his

aircraft was shot down. McCain was

quickly captured and imprisoned at the

infamous Hanoi Hilton P camp where he

was tortured to the point he tried to

commit suicide and even agreed to record

a propaganda video for his capttors. I

would just like to tell

my wife

I

don't get well.

>> He would eventually be released after 5

and 1/2 years on March 14th, 1973.

>> Going to get used to wearing them chains

after a while, Luke. Won't you never

stop listening to them clinking? They're

going to remind you of what I've been

saying for your own good. Wish you'd

stop being so good to me, Captain.

Never. Never.

>> What we've got here is

failure to communicate.

>> November 9th saw the release of the

first issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

Founded in San Francisco by Jan Wer and

Ralph J. Gleason. Using $7,500 borrowed

from Wter's parents and future in-laws.

The magazine promised to cover music,

politics, and popular culture.

>> Rock and roll is something else. It's

not a serious thing. It's a thing which

says have fun.

>> That first issue featured John Lennon on

the cover and it had a cover price of

25.

Mel Brooks made his directorial debut

with the comedy The Producers starring

Zero Mustell and Gene Wilder.

>> How can a producer make more money with

a flop than he could with a hit?

>> Well, it's simply a matter of creative

accounting. You simply raise more money

than you really need. According to

Brooks, studio executives found it in

bad taste and initially refused to

release it, especially after bombing at

its premiere in Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania. Luckily, Peter Sers,

originally booked to play the role

played by Wilder, saved its release by

taking out an ad in Verizon, giving it

his strong endorsement. Decades after

the movie's release, music mogul David

Gaffett would convince Brooks to revive

the producers as a Broadway musical. The

show, which starred Nathan Lane and

Matthew Brick in the roles played by

Mustelle and Wilder, opened at the St.

James Theater on April 19th, 2001. And

Geffin was right. It was a massive hit,

running over 2500 performances and

winning a record-breaking 12 Tony

Awards. On December 3rd, Dr. Christian

Barnard made medical history by

transplanting the heart of accident

victim Denise Darville into 54year-old

Lewis Washkanssky. While a chimpanzeee

heart had been semisuccessfully

transplanted into a human in 1964,

Barnard's procedure was the first

successful humanto human heart

transplant. Rashkanssky's immune system

was weakened by the procedure and he

would die just 18 days later. Barard

however declared it a success because

the heart was beating on its own without

the help of a machine.

>> It was really heartbreaking at autopsy

to see um how beautiful this heart

looked. It uh was normal in size. He did

not die from the condition that we

treated him for.

>> The Concord was a supersonic airliner

capable of flying at twice the speed of

sound. And the first completed model was

unveiled at an airport in Tuloo, France

on December 11th. Despite that, its

maiden voyage wouldn't be until March

2nd, 1969. And it wouldn't officially

begin commercial transatlantic service

until 1976.

>> Dr. Brentice will be here for dinner.

Matt,

>> what the hell is going on here? Look,

Chris, if you don't explain to me in the

next few minutes what you three are

playing at.

>> Explain it, Mr. Drake.

>> You can? Well, let's have it.

>> Joanna and I didn't just meet in Hawaii.

We spent a good deal of time together

after we met. And

well, we have this problem.

I fell in love with your daughter.

>> The Point Pleasant Bridge, also known as

the Silver Bridge due to its color, was

a suspension bridge over the Ohio River

in West Virginia. But on December 15th,

1967, it collapsed during rush hour

traffic, killing 46 people. An

investigation would attribute the

disaster to the failure of a single

fractured Ibar. Author John Keel,

however, would tie the collapse to a

then littleknown crypted called The Moth

Man by linking them in several of his

books, including 1975's The Moth Man

Prophecies. The Graduate, starring

Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Bradock, a

recent college graduate who is seduced

by Mrs. Robinson, an older woman played

by Anne Braftoft.

>> For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson,

here we are. You got me into your house.

You give me a drink. You put on music.

Now you start opening up your personal

life to me and tell me your husband

won't be home for hours.

>> So,

>> Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce

me. It opened December 21st and became

the highest grossing movie of 1967,

receiving seven Oscar nominations and

ultimately winning best director for

Mike Nichols and also boasted a

soundtrack from folk rock duo Simon and

Garfuncle which included previous

releases like The Sound of Silence as

well as all new songs like the now

iconic Mrs. Robinson. Finally, on

December 31st, motorcycle daredevil Evil

Conval attempted to jump his bike 141 ft

over the fountains at Caesar's Palace

Casino. The massively hyped stunt drew a

huge crowd and for a moment appeared to

go off without a hitch. Canal's rear

wheel, however, snagged on the edge of

the landing ramp, flipping the Daredevil

over his handlebars and slamming him

into the asphalt. He would survive, but

the accident left him with a concussion

as well as severe fractures in his

pelvis, femur, wrist, and ankles. And

that's how 1967 ended. Rolling Stone was

on its way to being a major force in the

world of music. Mel Brooks was on his

way to being a comedy legend, and Evil

Conval was on his way to the hospital.

But the 60s still had plenty more in

store. See you back here for 1968.

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