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President Kennedy orders US Marshals to protect the protesters in hopes to integrate the buses.
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The US fails at invading Cuba during the missile crisis.
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A group of activists set out on bus to test new civil rights laws in the South.
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Kennedy warns the country of a possible nuclear attack and advises families to build bomb shelters.
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard was the first person to successfully transplant a heart. Unfortunately, Louis Washkansky, the person who received the transplant, only lived for another 18 days.
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MLK Jr. gives a speech at the Lincoln Memorial where over 25,000 thousand people showed up. This is one of his most memorable speeches yet and earned him TIME's Person of the Year.
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While riding in a car at a parade, President Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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New legislation makes it illegal to discriminate against someone based on race, color, religion, or sex.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to MLK Jr.
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Lyndon Johnson defeats Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the presidential race.
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Malcolm X was shot by members of the Nation of Islam while delivering a speech in New York.
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare and Medicaid bill providing healthcare to Americans.
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A bill is signed that ends discrimination at the polls.
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The first super bowl is played with the Packers against the Chiefs.
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Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American in the US supreme court.
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Republican candidate Richard Nixon just barely defeats running mate Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election by seven-tenths of 1%.
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Niel Armstrong is the first man to step on the moon, making the famous statement, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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