FACTS about this decade. 
  • Population 177,830,000
  • Unemployment 3,852,000
  • National Debt 286.3 Billion
  • Average Salary $4,743
  • Teacher's Salary $5,174
  • Minimum Wage $1.00
  • Life Expectancy:  Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
  • Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
  • An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailer camps.

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Father in shop-
In Chelsey (NYC)
on 23rd street and 8th Ave.

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1960 Playboy Club 
L to R Barbara, Richard, 
Bunny "Crystal"

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Marriage Certificate

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M
ay 1, 1960
 After getting married, 
we ran into the "goat man" 
and his train of goats
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Gail
 August 1960
Birthday
"Blue eyed tiger!"

1960

Feb. 15th, 1960- Miami...22 years old. Working with Bill Polero, and South Florida Detective Bureau on 6th Street, in Miami Beach.
April 16th, 1960- Miami...First date with Gail Schumann to see the movie "Can-Can"                        
May 1st, 1960
 Drove to Waycross, Georgia. with Barbara Larrabee (Birthdate1/23/41), Marylou Baker and Anthony Simon to get married. 
June,1960- The Open Mind of Dick Montero at The Mau Mau Room, Green Mansion 
July, 1960- The Open Mind of Dick Montero at The Mau Mau Room, Green Mansion 
Aug. 1960- The Open Mind of Dick Montero at The Mau Mau Room, Green Mansion 
Aug.15th 1960- Divorced from Barbara
Sept.1960- The Open Mind of Dick Montero at The Mau Mau Room, Green Mansion 
12 Best Movie for 1960:   

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Gail and I
April 16th 1961

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Richards father  (Antonio's) 
tile company

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1961

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1961

1961    
                  
                                                                        
Feb. 15th, 1961, Miami...23 years old.
Parenting: April 9th 1961- Miami...My son, Richard Mark is born.  
Came up with International Intelligence Consultants for oversea work.
Three days after my son is born on April 12th, 1961,
the Soviet Union launched the first manned spacecraft. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth and return safely.
May, 1961 - Miami...My father died. (Antonio Montero)
Oct. 16th, 1961-
Miami...Got married to Gail Schumann (Birth date 8-4-40 ) 
12 Best Movie for 1961:     
1961: U.S.-Backed Invasion of Cuba Began at Bay of Pigs
 
From December 1957 to February 1960, many American's help Fidel Castro.  Although the United States originally welcomed the Cuban revolution, which brought Fidel Castro to power on December 31, 1958, as Castro's links with the Soviet Union became stronger, tensions between the U..S. and Cuba increased.  Those tensions were fueled by the agitation of right-wing Cubans who had fled to the U.S. following the Cuban revolution.
 
On March 17, 1960, President Eisenhower asked the CIA to organize the military training of Cuban exiles for a possible "return to their homeland." Most of them were now in Florida. The plan was for an elite group of soldiers to land on a remote part of Cuba and lead an anti-Castro uprising among the supposedly unhappy Cuban populace.  Although the soldiers would be Cuban exiles, their training, as well as naval and air support would be provided by the U.S.  But U.S. involvement would have to be kept secret, since if it became known, the Soviet Union might retaliate, and in any case the U.S. participation would be a violation of international treaties.
 
When Eisenhower left office in January 1961 and John F. Kennedy entered the White House, the invasion plan still existed and the training of the Cuban exiles was in progress in South Florida.  Although Kennedy was skeptical about the plan, he gave reluctant approval.  On April 9th, my son was born in Miami and got me out of the mess. On April 10, 1961 American advisors began to transport the exile-soldiers, and on April 15th the Nicaraguan Air Force carried out air strikes.  These were ineffective, but they gave Castro warning of what was coming and enabled him to prepare for the invasion.
 
On April 17, 1961 an invasion force of 1,400 U.S.-trained, exiled Cuban soldiers landed at the Bay of Pigs.  Castro was ready for  them.  As soon as they landed on the beach, the exiles were immediately met with heavy resistance.  A Cuban aircraft sank a ship carrying munitions and communication equipment.  The exiles' air force support was quickly destroyed, and the chance of a general uprising in Cuba was quelled when there was a mass arrest of suspected dissidents.  By April 20th, the exiles had been completely defeated, all of which were killed or captured. It was a mess.
 
Not only was it a total military defeat, but American involvement in the attempted invasion could not be kept secret, and the United States faced international outrage.  After the Bay of Pigs invasion, relations among the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union deteriorated, and it may have been that the fiasco encouraged Nikita Khrushchev to send missiles to Cuba thereafter.

 

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International Detective 
Association Convention

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1962 IIC business card 
International Investigators Corporation- first investigators
 Corp Richard founded

1962  

Feb. 15th, 1962- Miami...24 years old.
April, 1962- Miami Beach...Open up International Investigators Corp. at One Lincoln Road.
May to Sept. 1962...Across the USA
Oct. 6th, 1962-
Miami...My daughter, Diana Lynn is born.
12 Best Movie for 1962:         

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Richard Mark and Father
1962

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Sept 1962 
Beau, brother Tony, 
Grace Montero, 
Isabelle Montero, 
Barbara, Richard

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1962 
Richard, Mark and Barbara

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1963 Richard, Diana (1)
and Richard Mark(3) 
front yard of house on 
1765  NW 21st Street Miami

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1963 Richard Mark, 
Richard in Pontiac Tempo

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1963 
brother Tony and Richard 
outside of navy barracks

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December 1963 
Barbara and Richard 
"makin' goo goo eyes"

1963     
                   
                                            
Feb.15th-1963- Miami...25 years old
July 7th- 1963- Miami Beach... My daughter, Denise Inez is born.
July 1963- Miami...Open up Montero & Associates in Coral Gables, a consultant firm.
Nov. 22nd 1963-Saint Louis, Mo... J.F.K. got shot. 
12 Best Movie for 1963:                

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Sept. 1964 
Richard and 2 kids- 
Denise and Richard Mark

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Sept 1964 
Denise and Richard

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1964 Richard and Mark (3) 
Crandon Park peacock

1964        
      
                                                     
Feb.15th,1964 Saint Louis, Mo....26 years old.
April 13th, 1964- my friend, Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win an Oscar for best actor, honored for his work in "Lilies of the Field."
April 28th, 1964- Miami...My daughter, Karin Gayle is born  
June, 1964- Miami...Country Justice Bldg., N.W. 12th Street and 13th Avenue.                
Sept. 1964- North Miami Beach...Open Rogue Men's Clothing & Furnishings,
12 Best Movie for 1964:            

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Richard, Diana, Denise,
and Karin

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All of the kids together
at Northside Shopping Center
27th Ave & 79th Street
Miami, FL

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aAug. 1965 Barbara,
Richard,Denise(2), 
Richard Mark(4) 

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August 1965 Mildred and 
Gordon Larabee
Barbara's parents

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J
une 1965 -4 kids- L to R
Windy Montero, 
Grace Montero, 
Denise Montero (21 mos.), 
Richard Mark 3yrs 11 mos. 
Taken back yard on 
SW 95th street

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1965 Cadillac
Richard, Denise and Mark

1965    
     
                  
Feb. 15th,1965- North Miami Beach...27 years old.
Aug.1965- Miami...For the first time. Public Safety Building, N.W. 13th Street & 13th Avenue
Nov. 10th, 1965- Tallahassee...Photographer
December 10th, 1965, Miami...My daughter, Joann Noel is born.
12 Best Movie for 1965:      

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GED Diploma

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1966 Denise and Richard Mark  birthday, cowboy outfit

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July 1966 
Mark and Beau (French Poodle)
sleeping ,
5 years old  

1966

January 1966 Movie Projectionist Certificate
Feb.15th, 1966- Tallahassee...28 years old.
March 1966 Base Ball Umpire Certificate
12 Best Movie for 1966:        

1967            
 
                                                                   
Feb.15th, 1967- Miami...29 years old.
12 Best Movie for 1967:      
Butcher Certificate
1968       
       
                                                                   
Feb.15th 1968, Miami...30 years old.
April 11th 1968, one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
12 Best Movie for 1968:      

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Trip to Spain with my father
"Chico"
Spring 1969
me (blue suit)
Barbara (wearing hat), 
My father (wearing red)

1969              
                                                                     
Feb.15th, 1969-Miami...31 years old.
March, 1969- 12 major paintings by ---------- were stolen from an ------------ museum by two men. The paintings were never found. 
Aug.1969 -    Men landed on the moon Moon
12 Best Movie for 1969: "Paint Your Wagon"