Året var 1963

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.

Documentary History

Jonas Fohlin

(Narrator)

Thommy Berggren

(Self)

Jerry Williams

(Self)

Torsten Persson

(Self)

Stig Wennerström

(Self (archive footage))

Valentina Tereshkova

(Self (archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

John Lennon

(Self (archive footage))

Paul McCartney

(Self (archive footage))

George Harrison

(Self (archive footage))

Ringo Starr

(Self (archive footage))

Ragnar Persson

(Self)

Gittan Wernström

(Self)

Gisela Döhler

(Self)

Maj-Britt Pettersson

(Self)

Irina Solovjova

(Self)

Sven Bodin

(Self)

Gunnar Sävström

(Self)

Åke Söderberg

(Self)

Sverré Calmbrandt

(Self)