Television: Top of the Decade: Television

> First Kennedy-Nixon debate, 1960.

> FCC Chairman Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech, 1961.

> Lee Harvey Oswald murdered by Jack Ruby on-camera, 1963.

> First instant replay adds new dimension to sports coverage, 1963.

> Viet Nam War becomes the first in "history to be brought directly into the living room, 1964.

> A black, Bill Cosby, co-stars in NBC series I Spy, 1965.

> All network shows are now broadcast in color, 1967.

> Peter Goldmark of CBS Labs announces invention of Electronic Video Recording (EVR), 1968.

> Television shows men...

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