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Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)
Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy would forever alter the landscape of political campaigning. The Nixon-Kennedy debates were the first presidential debates to be broadcast to a nationwide television and radio audience. Millions of Americans watched or listened to the historic confrontation. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated shortly after noon as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
The Beatles made their first live U.S. television appearance. More than 70 million Americans gathered around their televisions to watch four young men from Liverpool make history. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
March on the Pentagon
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War. The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. Later about 50,000 people marched across the Potomac River to The Pentagon and sparked a confrontation with paratroopers on guard. -
Mai Lai Massacre
My Lai Massacre, also called the Pinkville Massacre, mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed villagers by U.S. soldiers in the hamlet of My Lai during the Vietnam War. -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
During the evening with the police riot in full swing on Michigan Avenue in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, the Conrad Hilton hotel, television networks broadcast live as the anti-war protesters began the now-iconic chant The whole world is watching. -
Woodstock
This Attracted more than 400,000 attendees. Thirty-two acts were performed outdoors despite sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals held in history. -
The Beatles Break Up
Many trace the breakup of the Beatles to the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. -
Newport Jazz Festival
Saturday's schedule mixed jazz acts, such as Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis, with rock, blues, and R&B artists such as John Mayall, Sly & The Family Stone, Frank Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention, and O. C. Smith. -
Chicago 8 Trial
Thirteen months after the riots that shocked America, the trial of the so-called "Chicago Eight" began in the oak-paneled, twenty-third-floor courtroom of Judge Julius Hoffman. -
Kent State Protest
The Kent State shootings resulted in the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard, on the Kent State University campus. -
Roe vs. Wade
This was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant individual's liberty to have an abortion.