On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles stepped down the narrow jet stairs of Pan American Flight 101 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York into a mob of thousands of shrieking youngsters who welcomed them to America like conquering heroes.
How one man’s advance planning brought Beatlemania to America
Brian Epstein, the Beatles’s 29-year-old manager, spent months engineering “Operation U.S.A.,” a strategy for massive stateside success
By Glenn Frankel