John F. Kennedy was president. “Wagon Train” was the highest-rated show on TV.

And the Fort Lauderdale News ran a news story calling North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines “a nuisance.”

City officials asked the federal government to move the airport or abandon it after a pilot crash-landed his plane to avoid hitting children in a nearby playground.

The date: May 15, 1962.

Today North Perry is busier than ever, and it’s just as dangerous.

For six decades, Pembroke Pines and North Perry have shared an increasingly tense and uneasy co-existence.

A dairy farm that became a World War II Navy training field , it grew dramatically, as did the surrounding area — with houses, churches, shopping centers and ball fields.

Fatal accidents, crash landings and close calls are part of North Perry

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