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Swiss Family Robinson
Psycho
Spartacus
Exodus
The Apartment
Tall Story
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Elmer Gantry
Pepe
The Alamo
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WINNER
THE APARTMENT
Billy Wilder, Producer
NOMINEES
THE ALAMO
John Wayne, Producer
ELMER GANTRY
Bernard Smith, Producer
SONS AND LOVERS
Jerry Wald, Producer
THE SUNDOWNERS
Fred Zinnemann, Producer
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On this day, John F. Kennedy gave his famous Man to the Moon Speech - "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm#:~:text=We%20choose%20to%20go%20to%20the%20moon%20in%20this%20decade,to%20postpone%2C%20and%20one%20which -
101 Dalmatians
West Side Story
The Guns of Naverone
El Cid
The Absent Minded Professor
The Parent Trap
La Dolce Vita
Lover Come Back
Gone with the Wind
King of Kings
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WINNER
WEST SIDE STORY
Robert Wise, Producer
NOMINEES
FANNY
Joshua Logan, Producer
THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Carl Foreman, Producer
THE HUSTLER
Robert Rossen, Producer
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Stanley Kramer, Producer
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The Longest Day
Lawrence of Arabia
In Search of Castaways
That Touch of Mink
The Music Man
Mutiny on The Bounty
To Kill A Mockingbird
Hatari!
Gypsy
Lolita
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WINNER
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Sam Spiegel, Producer
NOMINEES
THE LONGEST DAY
Darryl F. Zanuck, Producer
MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN
Morton Da Costa, Producer
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Aaron Rosenberg, Producer
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Alan J. Pakula, Producer
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On this day, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while his car detail was driving through the city of Dallas, Texas. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president -
Cleopatra
How the West Was Won
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Tom Jones
Irma La Douce
Son of Flubber
Dr. No
The V.I.P.s
McLintock!
Charade
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C. Kumar N. Patel invented the carbon dioxide (CO2) laser. Used in industry for cutting to laser surgery.
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WINNER
TOM JONES
Tony Richardson, Producer
NOMINEES
AMERICA AMERICA
Elia Kazan, Producer
CLEOPATRA
Walter Wanger, Producer
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Bernard Smith, Producer
LILIES OF THE FIELD
Ralph Nelson, Producer
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Marry Poppins
My Fair Lady
Goldfinger
The Carpetbaggers
From Russia With Love
Father Goose
A Shot in the Dark
What a Way to Go!
The Unsinkable Moll Brown
The Pink Panther
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Malcom X was assassinated right before he was to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. He was shot down by assassins who identified as Black Muslim.
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March 1965, Johnson decided to send U.S. combat forces into battle in Vietnam Just in a few months, 82,000 combat troops were stationed on the ground in Vietnam.
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WINNER
MY FAIR LADY
Jack L. Warner, Producer
NOMINEES
BECKET
Hal B. Wallis, Producer
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
Stanley Kubrick, Producer
MARY POPPINS
Walt Disney and Bill Walsh, Producers
ZORBA THE GREEK
Michael Cacoyannis, Producer
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The Sound of Music
Doctor Zhivago
Thunderball
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
That Darn Cat!
The Great Race
Cat Ballou
What's New, Pussycat
Shenandoa
Von Ryan's Express
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WINNER
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Robert Wise, Producer
NOMINEES
DARLING
Joseph Janni, Producer
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Carlo Ponti, Producer
SHIP OF FOOLS
Stanley Kramer, Producer
A THOUSAND CLOWNS
Fred Coe, Producer
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The Bible
Hawaii
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
The Sand Pebbles
A Man for All Seasons
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Grand Prix
The Professionals
Alfie
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WINNER
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Fred Zinnemann, Producer
NOMINEES
ALFIE
Lewis Gilbert, Producer
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
Norman Jewison, Producer
THE SAND PEBBLES
Robert Wise, Producer
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Ernest Lehman, Producer .
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THe Graduate
The Jungle Book
Gone with the Wind
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Bonnie and Clyde
The Dirty Dozen Valley of the Dolls
You Only Live Twice
To Sir With Love
The Born Losers
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On the evening of April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing at his balcony when an sniper shot Dr. King. This occurred in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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WINNER
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
Walter Mirisch, Producer
NOMINEES
BONNIE AND CLYDE
Warren Beatty, Producer
DOCTOR DOLITTLE
Arthur P. Jacobs, Producer
THE GRADUATE
Lawrence Turman, Producer
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
Stanley Kramer, Producer
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The morning of June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy was shot inside a hallway kitchen. He died the following day. At the time, he was a senator, delivering a speech for a California Primary. he was 42 -
Funny Girl
2001: A Space odyssey
The Odd Couple
Bullitt
Romeo and Juliet
Oliver!
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary's Baby
Yours, Mine and Ours
The Lion in Winter
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1969 Thomas Fogarty filed for his patent for his Embolectomy Catheter which has become the standard. This little device can clear blockages in the human body.
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WINNER
OLIVER!
John Woolf, Producer
NOMINEES
FUNNY GIRL
Ray Stark, Producer
THE LION IN WINTER
Martin Poll, Producer
RACHEL, RACHEL
Paul Newman, Producer
ROMEO AND JULIET
Anthony Havelock-Allan and John Brabourne, Producers
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Love Bug
Midnight Cowboy
Easy Rider
Hello, Dollly
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Paint Your Wagon
True Grit
Cactus Flower
Goodbye, Columbus
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WINNER
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Jerome Hellman, Producer
NOMINEES
ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
Hal B. Wallis, Producer
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
John Foreman, Producer
HELLO, DOLLY!
Ernest Lehman, Producer
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Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, Producers
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Love Story
Airport
M*A*S*H
Patton
The Aristocats
Woodstock
Little Big Man
Ryan's Daughter
Tora! Tora! Tora!
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https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/november-22-1963-death-of-the-president
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