Close - the 50’s ended when JFK was shot; the 60’s started when the Beatles landed in New York. The couple of months in between? Nobody knows what they were.
Ok....I suppose it was a period of mourning for those who worshipped JFK. I was 6 at the time and had no idea who he was or anything. My only recollection was seeing a bit of the funeral on tv and thinking it was about someone important.
Did the 60s end with the ousting of President Nixon?
Yep, I see what you are saying.
I’ve heard that the early ‘60s were more like the late ‘50s than the late ‘60s. When people talk of “the 60s” and social upheavals and all that in the ‘60s, they don’t mean 1960 and 1961, they are thinking of 1967 and 1968 and 1969.