1960s

  • Newport Jazz Festival

    A Jazz festival
  • Nixon-Kennedy Debates

    The first debate between two presidential candidates, was on TV.
  • The Beatles Break Up

    The Beatles band breaks up
  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    The president was murdered in a parade in Dallas.
  • The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

    They had their first live performance
  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Allowed the president to do anything he wanted with the war.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Bombing over North Vietnam
  • March on the Pentagon

    A protest against the Vietnam war
  • Mai Lai Massacre

    American troops raped and murdered a whole villiage
  • Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    Anti war protesters protested
  • Woodstock

    It was a 3 day music festival
  • Chicago 8 Trial

    8 men from the Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
    are put on trial.
  • Kent State Protest

    National guard opened fire on protesters, killing 4.
  • Roe vs. Wade

    Supreme court allows abortions