The top news stories of 1963: The Kennedy assassination, civil rights, the nuclear test ban treaty, scandals such as Bobby Baker, Billy Sol Estes, the Joseph Valachi testimony, problems in France and England, (The John Profumo affair), Sino-Soviet rift, the Ecumenical Council, Pope Paul, Pope John died, the crisis in the Congo, a coup in South Vietnam against the Diem Government, the US and Russian space flights, US submarine "Thresher" sinks with all hands aboard, Skopje, Yugoslavia earthquake.
Bill Scott reports.