> Norman Mailer, novelist, becomes Norman Mailer, journalist, with “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” about Kennedy’s nomination, in Esquire, 1960.
> Playboy circulation average reaches 1,000,000 (now 5,000,000), 1960.
> Viet Nam reporting by David Halberstam. Neil Sheehan and Malcolm Browne contributes to the downfall of the Diem regime, 1963.
> With Sullivan v. The New York Times, the Supreme Court determines that a public official cannot be libeled by comment on his official conduct, 1964.
> The underground press blooms with the first issue of the free-swinging Los Angeles Free Press, 1964.
> New York Herald Tribune folds after a drawn-out strike, 1966.
> City magazines (Washingtonian, Atlanta, Seattle, etc.) become a major force with exposé of investigative Reporter Harry Karafin in Philadelphia, 1967.
> The Saturday Evening Post dies, 1969.
> Gay Tafese opens The New York Times closets with his bestseller, The Kingdom and the Power, 1969.
> LIFE publishes exposé of Supreme Court Justice Fortas, 1969.
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