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The first televised U.S. presidential debate, held on September 26, 1960, in Chicago, featured Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon. -
It featured iconic performances from Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and John Coltrane, while also hosting blues legends like Muddy Waters and, later, rock acts like Led Zeppelin. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. -
Performing live, the Beatles sang "All My Loving," "Till There Was You," "She Loves You," "I Saw Her Standing There," and "I Want to Hold Your Hand". This was also apart of the British Invasion -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy. -
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War -
The My Lai massacre was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. -
A series of protests against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. -
The Woodstock Music Fair, also known as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 196 -
They broke up because of their managers death, financial disagreements, and individual artist desires. -
Ohio National Guardsmen fired 67 rounds into a crowd of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War expansion -
Roe v. Wade 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 of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability. -
A riot breaks out during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. A group of eight men are arrested and put on trial for conspiring to incite the riot, including Abbie Hoffman (Michael Lembeck), the noted political prankster. Throughout his court battle, Hoffman frequently feuds with Judge Julius Hoffman