The second half of the 60s were for the restless, chockablock with brilliant fashions and novel ideas, with celebrities who became governors, and senators who looked like movie stars. Those years cradled a generation that saw itself on its way to new worlds in art, in the human mind, even in outer space. They are the years brought to life in the new season of the meticulously researched Mad Men, and from the first spacewalk to the otherworldly charms of Brigitte Bardot, Newsweek was there to cover them as they occurred. Here are some of the real personalities and events that shaped the life and times of Don Draper.
Pictured: When Sen. Kenneth Keating visited Newsweek’s office in 1964, it was a no-women-allowed moment (save for The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham).
