Året var 1963
60 mins
1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds of thousands are vaccinated, and several thousand are isolated. Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested for spying for the Soviets. John F Kennedy is murdered in Dallas, while Martin Luther King has a dream about the future, "Villervalle i Söderhavet" is shown on Swedish TV.
Torsten Persson
Self
Stig Wennerström
Self (archive footage)
Ragnar Persson
Self
Gittan Wernström
Self
Gisela Döhler
Self
Irina Solovjova
Self
Sven Bodin
Self
Gunnar Sävström
Self
Åke Söderberg
Self