The New Frontier By MPuccio34 Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Jan 1, 1968 The ew Frontier Jan 1, 1961 Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in outer space. Jan 1, 1963 President Kennedy is assinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. Jan 1, 1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American justice of the Supreme Court.
