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A riot happened on the 2nd day because thousands were not let into sold-out shows. Many were arrested. -
Vice President Nixon and Senator John F Kennedy participated in the first presidential debate on television, which was broadcast in WBBM Studios. -
He was shot while riding a motorcycle with his wife. His head flew off and rolled around. -
A band called The Beatles made a debut on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing 5 of their songs. It got about 73 million views, causing Beatlemania and the British invasion of American pop. -
President Johnson was allowed to do whatever he wanted to defend the U.S. troops in Southeast Asia. -
The U.S. Air Force and Navy conducted a bombing campaign against North Vietnam to stop it from supporting the Viet Cong. -
Thousands marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. -
Many people in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, were murdered. The person who was convicted was William Calley. -
About 10,000 people gathered in Grant Park and marched all the way to the International Amphitheatre -
It was a music festival in Bethel, New York, that allowed people to let go of their struggles and worries, and understand other cultures, and lasted 3 days. However, some people died. -
A public trial of 8 anti-war activists for inciting a riot in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. They were found guilty and imprisoned and fined, but later released. -
The Beatles had creative differences, financial disagreements, and they wanted to make different individual choices, so they broke up. -
The Ohio National Guard shot a bunch of students who were protesting against the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Four of them died while nine were hurt. -
This allowed women to have abortions if they didn't want kids.