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The Newport Jazz Festival founded and held on July 17-18, 1954, at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island, was the first major outdoor jazz festival in America. It drew over 13,000 fans to watch legends like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. -
The debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy was the first presidential debate to be on tv and the purpose was to show candidate debates in a new at home format -
John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas while riding an open top Limousine through Dealey Plaza by a gunshot by Lee Harvey Oswald -
The Beatles made their first historical appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, performing 5 songs and was viewed by a record-breaking 73,000,000 people -
The Gulf Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution passed by Congress authorizing President Lyndon B.Johnson to use military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam from 1965 to 1968, intended to weaken their will to fight and interdict supplies to the Viet Congress in the South
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The March on the Pentagon was a major, late-October anti-Vietnam War protest where 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators rallied at the Lincoln Memorial before marching on Department of Defense. -
The Mai Lai Massacre was a mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. Army troops on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
The Democratic Convention was marked by intense, violent clashes between anti-war protesters and police. The chaos involved thousands of protesters, tear gas, and brutal beatings by police against demonstrators and bystanders -
Woodstock was a watershed 3-day music festival (Aug 15-18, 1969) in Bethel, NY, defining the 1960s counterculture with “3 days of peace and music” -
The Chicago 8 Trial was a politically charged federal case against antiwar activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. -
The Beatles broke up because of a mix of creative differences, business disputes, personal tensions, and the loss of their guiding manager Brian Epstein -
The Kent State Protest was a defining, tragic moment in the U.S. anti-Vietnam War movement, where Ohio National Guardsmen fired 67 rounds into a crowd of student demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine. -
Roe vs Wade was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s constitutional right to privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment, legalizing abortion nationwide by striking down many state laws