31 Vintage Photos From 1964

AOL ^ | 06/18/2025 | Alina Wang

[ChicagoConservative27]

From the Beatles touching down in America and sending fans into a frenzy, to underdog Cassius Clay (soon to be known as Muhammad Ali) shocking the world by defeating Sonny Liston, 1964 was undeniably electric. It was the year that saw a huge win in the fight for equality as President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, while a little show called “Jeopardy!” made its debut on TV. Everywhere you looked, history was being made — and these photos capture it all.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 1964; 31; from; photos; vintage

[ChicagoConservative27]

What a year. My mom was ten. She remembers the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and lets not forget Barry Goldwater paving the way for the conservative movement.

[plain talk]

One photo had the caption "A group of men, including Martin Luther King Jr., gather closely as one man seated in the center hands a pen to King, surrounded by conversation and attention in a formal setting."

Seriously? That's President Lyndon B. Johnson who just signed the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. (Yeah I know what LBJ said about blacks). Who writes this stuff?

[Repeal The 17th]

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times.

[goodnesswins]

I was a teenager...TV was interesting...but THIS “huge win in the fight for equality as President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law”...turned out horribly.

[CommerceComet]

The Ali-Liston photo was actually from their 1965 rematch, not their 1964 fight.

[Steely Tom]

The jukebox control includes the songs “Always On My Mind,” by Willie Nelson, and “Photograph” and “Actions Not Words” by Def Leppard.

Also “Rock The Casbah” by The Clash.

I’m thinking it’s from 1983 or perhaps 1984.

[xp38]

I was 7. While I was aware of the JFK assassination I was too young to know who he was or what he did. The Beatles while a big thing was mostly in 1964 for somewhat older yutes. I began to appreciate them as their career and the 60s rolled on. The first Presidential election I was somewhat aware of was 1968 with Nixon winning. I had reached the grand old age of 11 by then.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Good memories

[jcmccorm]

Best year ever!

I was born :)

[rlmorel]

I guess 1964 is remarkable because Democrat legislation lit the fuse for the total destruction of the black family unit.

[Vroomfondel]

Who writes this stuff?

these days? chatgpt.

[_Jim]

I remember the afternoon he was shot, all the TeeVee coverage, and later the funeral procession with the caisson pulled by horses ... it was televised.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/horse-drawn-caisson-carrying-the-body-of-john-fitzgerald-news-photo/576766456

[plain talk]

You might be right.

[BobL]

Only Tesla Owners would think that the Civil Rights Act improved conditions for black families.

[Inyo-Mono]

The Beatles while a big thing was mostly in 1964 for somewhat older yutes.

I guess I was one of those older "yutes" in 1964, I was 14 and remember The Beatles arrival like it was yesterday (no pun intended).

[xp38]

I was I imagine in school when he was shot and completely oblivious. I do have a vague memory of the funeral and the tv coverage of that.

[Deaf Smith]

1964….Addams Family Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and her famous dance recreated by the Netflix Wednesday (Jenna Ortega).

Lisa Loring was six at that time (my age) and passed in 2023.

One granddaughter was into the Netflix Wednesday and I showed her the YT vid of the dance in 1964 and that she was my age and had just passed.

[willk]

I was 7 years old in 1964. We lived in the final flight path of the City of Blythe Airport where we were served by a regional airline. It was Bonanza Airlines which flew Fairchild F-27 40 passenger turboprops. I was a Bonanza “ Silverdart” fanatic.One evening I was sitting with my dad watching the CBS news with Walter Chronkite and then all of a sudden were the the images on our black and white tv screen of the wreckage. Bonanza Airlines Flight 114 had crashed at 815 pm into a solid rock cliff on approach about 6 miles from Las Vegas during a rare freak snowstorm killing all 29 aboard. I’ve been to the crash site 3 times. Not an easy hike. They say 10 more feet and they would have cleared. I would say 15-20 feet to be sure. The original crash report blamed the pilots misinterpreting the approach chart. There was a successful lawsuit against Jeppesen who made the approach chart several years later. Seems it was different than their other charts. Not being a pilot, the thing that confuses me is that the crash impact location doesn’t line up with the runway. The flights I see overhead at the crash site on final are a few miles to the right of the crash site on the way to land on runway 1. Im not insinuating they were off course but if there is any pilots out there can you explain this to me? Anyway,1964 is one of those years that sticks in my head because of the tragedy.

[tumblindice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq9jEaKhfOY
Thomas Sowell on LBJ and the civil rights act 5 min.

[tumblindice]

I remember Jackie shoving John John out when the casket wagon passed, he saluted like a trained monkey.
“Sigghhh” Everyone