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Nathan Bedford Forrest
Started the Klu Klux Klan -
Vietnam War
The war in Vietnam started six years before the United States got involved -
Racial Integration at the University of Alabama
African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama. Alabama's new governor, flanked by state troopers, blocked the door of the enrollment office. -
John F. Kennedy's assassination
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Robert Kennedy's assassination
Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary -
Richard Nixon's Election
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election -
U.S Moon landing
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon -
Watergate Scandal
The scandal break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. -
Hurricane Carmen
Hurricane Carmen was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1974 Atlantic hurricane season -
Elvis Presley's Death
At the age of 42, the cause of his death was covered up by his family. Although, it is suspected that it was from an overdose of prescription drugs that caused his heart to stop. -
John Lennon's Death
The Beatles' musician John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his New York City apartment when Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were returning from the recording studio to their home at The Dakota when 25-year-old crazed fan Mark David Chapman shot him. -
Attempt to assassinate Reagan
69 days into his presidency, while leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., Reagan and three others were shot and wounded
