"The 1960's"

By Walt
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    "The 1960"

  • J.F.Kennedy Appointed President

  • I Have A Dream Speech

  • Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president

  • Richard M. Nixon becomes president

  • Beatles first come to America, where did they perform, and what did they play?

  • John F Kennedy was assassinated

    On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was identified as the shooter, although controversy remains about the killing.

  • Malcolm X Assissination

  • Two albums by the band the doors?

  • Sgt. Pepper was’s released

  • Led Zeppelin formed

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, and where?

    On April 3, 1968, King delivered his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” at the Mason Temple in Memphis. April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, King was assassinated.
    James Earl Ray was arrested and charged with the murder. Ray pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison but later claimed to be innocent. He died of liver and kidney disease in April, 1998, still seeking a trial.

  • The first American walk on the moon

  • Woodstock