Daily News Centennial, Part II: 1950-1969

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Part 2 of my series displaying front pages of the 1st 100 years of the New York Daily News.

October 2, 1950, another heartbreaking loss for the Dodgers:

November 2, 1950, after an attempt to assassinate President Truman failed:

February 19, 1951, a point-shaving scandal ends the glory days of college basketball in New York, less than a year after City College became the only team ever to win the NCAA and NIT in the same year:

October 4, 1951, after "The Giants win the Pennant!" on Bobby Thomson's home run:

October 11, 1951, after the Yankees ended "The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff":

October 8, 1952, Yankees make it 4 straight:

November 5, 1952, as Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower is elected President in a landslide:

December 1, 1952, Bronx native George Jorgensen becomes Christine Jorgensen -- as far as America knew at the time, the 1st person to undergo a sex change, or, as we would now call it, gender reassignment surgery:

June 20, 1953, following the execution for treason of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:

July 28, 1953, after the Truce of Panmunjom ended the Korean War:

October 6, 1953, after the Yankees' never-before, and never-since, 5th straight World Series win:

January 15, 1954, The Yankee Clipper and the Blonde Bombshell:

May 18, 1954, after the Supreme Court overturns public school segregation laws:

October 3, 1954, after the Giants won the World Series, for the last time as a New York team:

October 5, 1954, as the Joe D-MM fairy tale ends:

September 24, 1955, following a refusal to grant the family of Emmett Till justice:

James Dean died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, at age 24. If the Daily News had a big headline about it, it isn't on Google Images.

October 5, 1955, after the Brooklyn Dodgers finally won a World Series:

October 9, 1956, after Don Larsen's World Series perfect game:

October 11, 1956, after the Yankees clinched that World Series:

December 31, 1956, Yankee Stadium becomes the home of the champions of baseball and football at the same time:

August 20, 1957, da Jints wuz da foist to go:

September 24, 1957, during the Little Rock school integration crisis:

October 5, 1957, after the launch of the world's 1st artificial satellite, the Soviet Union's Sputnik I:

October 9, 1957, for Brooklyn, the day the music died:

October 26, 1957, "The Boss of All Bosses" is whacked:

November 15, 1957, the raid of the Apalachin Meeting, which had been called to settle things in the wake of Anastaia's rubout:

January 29, 1958, more bad news for Dodger fans, as Roy Campanella is paralyzed in a car crash:

September 16, 1958, a train accident at Newark Bay kills 48 people, including former Yankee 2nd baseman George "Snuffy" Stirnweiss:

October 10, 1958, who won the World Series again?

December 29, 1958, Yankee Stadium hosts football's "Greatest Game Ever Played," but the Giants lose it in dramatic fashion:

January 2, 1959, after the Cuban Revolution:

October 14, 1960, after Bill Mazeroski stunned the Yankees:

November 10, 1960, it took a couple of days to be sure, but the News could confirm that John F. Kennedy was elected President, with a headline that would also have fit had the other guy won, leading me to believe it had been pre-selected:

November 21, 1960, the Philadelphia Eagles' Chuck Bednarik clobbers the Giants' Frank Gifford:

April 21, 1961, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion:

July 3, 1961, America's leading living writer lives no more:

October 2, 1961, as Roger Maris does "61 in '61":

October 10, 1961, after another Yankee World Series win:

There would be no Daily News coverage of the Yankees' 1962 World Series win, as it came during a citywide newspaper strike, which killed the New York Mirror, and contributed to the downfalls of the New York Herald-Tribune, the New York Journal-American, and the New York World-Telegram & Sun.

August 6, 1962:

October 23, 1962, when President John F. Kennedy revealed the Cuban Missile Crisis:

October 7, 1963, the News appearing to forget that the Dodgers were no longer Brooklyn's team, even if Brooklynite Sandy Koufax had pitched and won Games 1 and 4:

November 23, 1963:

February 26, 1964, Cassius Clay knocks Sonny Liston out, and soon becomes Muhammad Ali:

March 16, 1964, and Taylor and Burton were bigger than Brangelina and Kimye:

November 4, 1964, Lyndon Baines Johnson wins a term of his own as President, and I seriously doubt that this photo was originally in color:

February 22, 1965, after the assassination of Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, Manhattan:

August 16, 1965, The Beatles playing Shea Stadium did not top the Vietnam War as the lead story:

November 11, 1965, recovering from the big blackout:

January 1, 1966, John Lindsay sworn in as Mayor, and the transit union, led by Mike Quill, goes on strike, which lasts 11 days:

January 28, 1967, after the Apollo 1 fire:

May 15, 1967, Mickey's milestone:

April 5, 1968:

June 6, 1968:

January 13, 1969, and that's eyebrows above and eye-black underneath, as Broadway Joe Namath did not have a black eye:

June 9, 1969, coverage of Mickey Mantle Day:

June 23, 1969:

July 6, 1969, an early account of the raid and fightback at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, with a level of subtlety and sensitivity all too common for that era -- a reminder that the 1960s were revolutionary because they had to be:

July 20, 1969, the Chappaquiddick incident not only prevents Ted Kennedy from ever becoming President, but also means the family can't enjoy the Moon landing that JFK asked for 8 years earlier:

July 21, 1969:

August 10, 1969, after the murders committed by Charles Manson's "Family":

August 16, 1969, Woodstock: As Arlo Guthrie correctly said, "The New York State Thruway's closed, man!"

October 17, 1969, the Mets' Miracle:

Part 3 follows.