This Week in ‘66, seventeen-year-old Peggy Fleming won figure skating gold, a pair of Gemini program astronauts died in an accident, tornadoes and blizzards wreaked havoc, and the Citizens for Decent Literature (CDL) waged a campaign against smut in a Philadelphia neighborhood.
SHOW NOTES
“57 Die, 404 Hurt as Twisters Rip Into Central Mississippi,” Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1966, 1.
“Alabama Poll Tax Unconstitutional,” Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1966, 1.
“Blizzard Closes Schools, Snarls Traffic in Midwest,” Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1966, 1.
“Death Penalty Fixed in Slaying of Two Girls.” Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1966, 8.
Eady, James, “Nuisance or Need? Magazine ‘Purge’ Given Mixed Reception,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1966, 7.
“The Truth About Citizens for Decent Literature,” Oklahoma City Advertiser, March 10, 1966, 7.
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