1963

1963 was the year U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Jonny Nilsson crushed the confident Norwegians in the World Speed Skating Championships. King Olav turned 60 and allowed television into Skaugum for an extended interview for the first time. The intense 38-hour Kings Bay debate in Parliament, broadcast in full on TV over four days, resulted in Norway’s first non-socialist government since 1935. Kåre Willoch gained his first ministerial experience in the short-lived Lyng government. Toralv Maurstad was a familiar face in Norwegian films and theaters both at home and abroad, and Anne Torjusson Diesen had the dream job as a script girl in the TV network’s new entertainment division.