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  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas
  • Newport Jazz Festival

    academic panel discussions and featured live musical performances.
  • Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)

    The first presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took place on Monday, September 26, 1960, at the WBBM-TV studios in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States
  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed
  • The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

    appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
  • March on the Pentagon

    demonstration against the Vietnam War
  • Mai Lai Massacre

    United States war crime committed
  • Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    10,000 protesters gathered in Grant Park for the demonstration, intending to march to the International Amphitheatre
  • Chicago 8 Trial

    eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • Woodstock

    The Woodstock Music and Art Fair
  • Kent State Protest

    The Kent State shootings were the killing of four and wounding of nine
  • Roe vs. Wade

    the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right to have an abortion.
  • The Beatles Break Up

    stopped being a band