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The Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island was America's first annual jazz festival. Held at the Newport Casino, the inaugural event featured legends like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. It became a premier, often integrated venue for civil rights expression and iconic performances. -
The 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates were the first-ever televised U.S. presidential debates, fundamentally shifting politics toward media appearance. Held in four parts starting Sept. 26, 1960, a confident John F. Kennedy outperformed a sickly, un-makeuped Richard Nixon on screen, while radio listeners perceived a closer matchup. These debates were instrumental in Kennedy’s narrow victory. -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. -
The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was on February 9, 1964, a landmark cultural event watched by a record 73 million viewers, launching the "British Invasion" in America, where they performed hits like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "All My Loving," and "She Loves You" to screaming, hysterical fans. -
A 1964 congressional act granting President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam following alleged attacks on U.S. destroyers, serving as the legal basis for the Vietnam War without a formal declaration of war, and was later repealed in 1971 amidst growing anti-war sentiment. -
A massive demonstration against the Vietnam War. -
A series of protests against the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. -
A U.S. war crime involving the mass murder of unarmed citizens in the Son My Village -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock -
A group of activists charged with conspiracy to incite riots -
Due to a mix of creative differences, business disputes (especially over manager Allen Klein), personal tensions, and the loss of their guiding manager Brian Epstein, culminating in Paul McCartney's public announcement in April 1970, though John Lennon had privately left in 1969. Underlying issues included growing artistic independence (George Harrison), Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono, financial strains, and power struggles that intensified after Epstein's 1967 death. -
Four unarmed college students were killed and nine wounded by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States, on May 4, 1970. -
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.