1960s Timeline

By ChelseaSPence

  • Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)

  • I have a dream speech

    One of the biggest civil right movement's for African American people

  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

  • The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

  • March on the Pentagon

  • Mai Lai Massacre

  • Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protest activities against the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

  • Woodstock

  • Chicago 8 Trial

    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.

  • Kent State Protest

  • The Beatles Break Up

  • Roe vs. Wade

  • Newport jazz festival

    The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years.