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North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the American destroyers USS Maddox.
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U.S. Marines arrived to defend the airbase at Da Nang.
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American forces searching for enemy troops in an area with a strong Vietcong presence came upon the village of My Lai.
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Martin Luther King JR. was assainated.
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Robert Kennedy asserted that "we were a great country, an unselfish country, a compassionate country.
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Antiwar rally in downtown new york.
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Robert Geary said "I'm very proud to be an American and I know my boy that was killed in Vietnam would be here today if he was alive, marching with us. I know he died for the right cause, because in his letters he wrote to me he knew what he was fighting
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Fulbright held a public hearing on the Vietnam War.
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The United States and North Vietnam came to terms on a peace settlement.
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Richard Nixon died.