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At the Newport Casino in Rhode Island, featuring legends like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. As one of America's first major jazz festivals, it established a lasting tradition, later moving to Fort Adams State Park. -
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debates were the first televised U.S. presidential debates, fundamentally shifting campaign strategies toward image and media presence. Over four debates, a poised Senator John F. Kennedy largely overshadowed a pale, ill-prepared Vice President Richard Nixon, helping Kennedy win the narrow election. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. -
A landmark cultural event watched by a record 73 million viewers, launching the "British Invasion" in America, where they performed hits like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "All My Loving," and "She Loves You" to screaming, hysterical fans. -
Authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" -
The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. -
A series of protests against the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War -
A mass murder of unarmed civilians in the Son My Village. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
A group of activists charged with conspiracy to incite riots. -
Due to a combination of creative differences, business conflicts (especially over manager Allen Klein), and evolving personal dynamics the boys decided to break apart. -
Four unarmed college students were killed and nine wounded by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States, on May 4, 1970. -
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.