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Nov 4, 1952
Dwight Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson for president while singer/songwriter Stuart Hamblen, running on the Prohibition ticket, finishes fourth. Because of Stevenson's loss, Ernest Tubb loses $200 in a bet with Eddy Arnold
Jan 19, 1953
Dorothy Shay, the Park Avenue Hillbilly, appears at one of Dwight Eisenhower's inaugural balls in Washington, D.C. Sid Caesar, Fred Waring and Abbott & Costello also perform for an audience that includes vice president Richard Nixon
Aug 23, 1956
A dozen years after he appeared on the Billboard country charts, Nat "King" Cole addresses the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco
Jan 30, 1960
Elton Britt is one of two presidential candidates removed from New Hampshire's primary ballot for including the signatures of deceased people on his petition to run
Oct 14, 1960
Democratic vice presidential candidate Lyndon B. Johnson concludes a five-day train campaign of the South in New Orleans. While riding the LBJ Special, he heard the Ernest Tubb hit "The Yellow Rose Of Texas" played more than 100 times at stops
Nov 2, 1960
"Feudin' And Fightin'" singer Jo Stafford attends a campaign rally for presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, along with Louis Prima, Milton Berle, Stan Freberg and Janet Leigh
Jan 20, 1961
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country": John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States in Washington, D.C. The next year, he is celebrated in Jimmy Dean's single "P.T. 109"
Mar 27, 1961
"Gotta Travel On" songwriter Pete Seeger goes on trial in New York for contempt of Congress. His attorney argues his rights were violated during a 1956 investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee
Aug 28, 1963
Martin Luther King delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March On Washington. On hand are "It Ain't Me, Babe" songwriter Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul & Mary
Nov 22, 1963
President John F. Kennedy is killed in a Dallas parade. RCA subsequently delays its planned release of George Hamilton IV's "Fort Worth, Dallas Or Houston." Buddy Starcher will draw similarities between Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln in his 1966 single "History Repeats Itself"
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