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Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)
1960, Kennedy v. Nixon. In fact, the first televised debate occurred four years earlier, when Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson challenged incumbent Republican president Dwight Eisenhower -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife. Kennedy and his wife were in Jacqueline, Texas, Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, when he was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Depository by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
The Beatle's first appearance was seen on February 9th, 1964, by then-record 73 million viewers had come to be regarded as a cultural watershed that launched American Beatlemania. -
March on the Pentagon
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War. It was a protest that involved more than 100,000 people at the rally by the Lincoln Memorial. -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a product of a partnership between John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang. Artie and Michaels's idea was to make enough money from the event so that they could build a recording studio near the arty New York town of Woodstock. -
Kent State Protest
members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students just for standing in a field protesting they were not hurting or harming anyone until the Ohio national guard fired toward the students