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Featured artists like Louis Armstrong and Ray
Charles notably marked by riots on July 2 where the National Guard was called to manage thousands of people unable to enter soldout shows -
The debate focused on domestic issues, with 8-minute opening statements and a 30-minute QA. -
John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas. -
The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was a historic television debut watched by a record-breaking 73 million viewers launching the "British Invasion" and Beatlemania in the U.S. -
passed by congress on august 7 and signed on august 10 it authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel attacks in Southeast Asia -
A bombing against Vietnam was intended to pressure communist leaders -
A major national anti-war protest where an estimated 70,000-100,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial before marching to the Pentagon. -
The mass murder of hundreds of unarmed
Vietnamese civilians by
U.S. Army soldiers; it came to light in 1969. -
Anti-war protests met with "indiscriminate police violence" that was later described as a "police riot". -
Eight leaders later reduced to the "Chicago Seven after Bobby Seale was tried separately were charged with conspiracy to riot during the 1968 convention -
A music festival held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
Paul McCartney publicly announced he was no longer working with the group though the band did not legally dissolve until December 29 1974 -
A defining moment of the anti Vietnam War movement in the United States resulting in the killing of four students and the wounding of nine others by the Ohio National Guard -
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability.