In 1965 a 15-year retrospective of Rivers's work began a five-museum tour across America. For its slot at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan Rivers created a special new work, his largest yet, a huge multi-media panel entitled The History of the Russian Revolution, now in the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington. Equally spectacular was Rivers's version of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at Lincoln Center in 1966, with Jason Robards as narrator, a contemporary design firmly booed by the first-night audience for a record five minutes.