Tim O'brien and the 1960's

By Andrew Wiebenga
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    Events of the 60's

  • Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses

    Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

  • First Walmart opened

    First Walmart opened
    First Walmart opened

  • Martin Luther King Jr. gives His "I Have a Dream" Speech

    Martin Luther King Jr. gives His "I Have a Dream" Speech

  • !6th Street Baptist Church Bombing

    !6th Street Baptist Church Bombing
    16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a racial hate crime aganst the blacks that killed 4 little girls and injured 22 others.

  • John F. Kenedy Assassination

    John F. Kenedy Assassination

  • Tim O'brien graduted from Worthington, MN Highschool

  • Civil Rights Act passes

  • Tim O'brien began his schooling at Macalester College

  • Sophomore at Macalester College

  • First U.S troops land in Vietnam

  • Protests over Mass Draft

  • Junior at Macalester College

  • Began his last semester at Macalester College

  • First Superbowl

  • Three U.S. Astronauts Killed during launch

  • Accidental Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep

  • Tim O'brien earned his BA in Political Science from Macalester College

  • Tim O'brien was drafted into the Vietnam War

    Tim O'brien was drafted into the Vietnam War

  • Martin Lther King JR assassignated

    Martin Lther King JR assassignated

  • Tim O'brien was serving in the Vietnam War

    Tim O'brien was serving in the Vietnam War

  • Neil Armstrong becomes he firs man on the moon

    Neil Armstrong becomes he firs man on the moon

  • First concert at Woodstock

  • Tim O'brien finished his service in the Vietnam War

  • Graduated from Harvard School of Government