Sources
Eyewitness to the 20th Century; Chronicle of the 20th Century; Encyclopedia of the 20th Century; Chronicle of the World; The Timetables of History; U.S. Census Bureau; Fort Worth Star-Telegram/KRT; Chronicle of America; "American Caesar," by William Manchester; Facts on File Yearbook 1950; tvland.com; Billboard; Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; The People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present; American Decades, 1950-1959; The Annals of America; A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society; National Research Council; Day by Day: The Fifties; Documents of American History; "Korean War," by Max Hastings; "Elizabeth Taylor: "The Last Star," by Kitty Kelley; "The Life of Elizabeth Taylor," by Alexander Walker; "What We Wore: An Offbeat Social History of Women's Clothing, 1950-1980," by Ellen Melinkoff; "A History of 20th Century Fashion," by Elizabeth Ewing; "In Fashion: Dress in the Twentieth Century; Fashions of a Decade: The 1950s," by Patricia Baker; "Truman," by David McCullough; "The Fifties," by David Halberstam; Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century; Timelines of African-American History; Chronicle of the Cinema; What Happened When; The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music; Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Politics; The International Who's Who, 1993-1994; The History of Baseball; Encyclopedia of Auto Racing Greats; "Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess," by James Spada; "Saved!" by William Hoffer; "Facts & Dates of American Sports," by Gorton Carruth and Eugene Erlich; A Chronology of Life & Events in America; Encyclopedia Americana; Atlantic Monthly; "Van Cliburn," by Howard Reich; The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; Microsoft Encarta

Credits
Producer: Michelle Buzgon/KRT
Designer: Ron Coddington/KRT
Research: Chuck Myers/KRT
Photography: Walt Disney Pictures; The Dallas Morning News/KRT; National Archives; Clay Miller of The Orange County Register/KRT; Chicago Tribune/KRT; Mattel; Fox Broadcasting; Mariner's Museum; Patricia Beck of Detroit Free Press/KRT; Bruce Strong of The Orange County Register/KRT; Bruce Chambers of The Orange County Register/KRT; Tony Spina of Detroit Free Press/KRT; Paul O'Driscoll/KRT; United States Olympic Committee; Chuck Kennedy/KRT; Library of Congress