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an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held in Newport Rhode Island and later in New York City from 1954 until the present -
The first presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy occurred on Monday, September 26, 1960, at a TV studio in Chicago Illinois. -
A joint resolution passed by the U.S. Congress in 1964. It authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war. -
On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 pm President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas Texas while riding in a motorcade with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nelly Connally. -
Sixty years ago, on February 9, 1964, four Liverpool men took to the stage for their first televised performance in America forever altering the course of music history. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States. -
The March on the Pentagon was a significant anti-Vietnam War protest held on October 21 1967 in Washington D.C. The first national protest against the war. The demonstrators helped the federal government confirm its commitment to civilian control. -
The My Lai massacre was a United States war crime committed on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians -
A three day music festival held in Bethel, New York, from August 15-18, 1969. This was a pivotal moment in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, drawing an estimated half million attendees. -
This was a riot that led to the police breaking through the crowd and began beating the young man, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete. -
A riot breaks out during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. A group of eight men are arrested and put on trial for conspiring to incite the riot. -
The Kent State shootings were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. -
The Beatles broke up in 1970 with Paul McCartney publicly announcing his departure on April 10 1970 effectively ending the band's public activity. -
A Supreme Court case established a constitutional right to abortion in the United States based on the principle of privacy.