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Newport Jazz Festival
The first Newport Jazz Festival -
Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)
Richard Nixon and JFK would have their first presidential debates -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
The band the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed golf of tonkin resolution -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation rolling thunder was under way -
March on the Pentagon
Thousands of anti war protesters marched at the capital in opposition in involvment of the vietnam war -
Mai Lai Massacre
Was a united states war crime -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
10,000 protesters gathered in Grant Park for the demonstration, intending to march to the International Amphitheatre where the convention was being held. -
Woodstock
woodstock was a music and art fair -
Kent State Protest
Vietnam war protestsers were protesting when the police let loose on them -
Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs Wade was a court issued case that was all around abortion rights -
The Beatles Break Up
the beatles were not working as a group and they broke up -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
President JFK was shot and killed during a parade