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Nixon and Kennedy take part in first televised debate. over 70 million viewers tuned in.
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Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a Presidential motorcade.
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At least 100,000 people streamed into the nation%u2019s capital that autumn weekend, most of them college-age men and women, many of them students eligible for the military draft, all there to protest the Vietnam War.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. A gaping wound covered a large portion of his jaw and neck
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American Neil Armstrong becomes first first man on the moon.
