1960s timeline

By Gracie4137
  • Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)

    Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)

    First presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy. The debate was moderated by Howard K.
  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, the president got shot in the neck and head. The governor was shot in his back. The car sped off to Parkland Memorial Hospital just a few minutes away.
  • The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

    The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

    This was a cultural watershed that launched American Beatlemania, and inspired many young viewers to become rock musicians.
  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate. It was also to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    Planners hoped to provide a morale boost to South Vietnamese forces, interdict the flow of supplies going south, and discourage North Vietnamese aggression. This was a systematic bombing campaign against North Vietnam named rolling thunder.
  • March on the Pentagon

    March on the Pentagon

    There was at most 35,000 anti-war protesters organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War Vietnam. They gathered for a demonstration at the Defense Department
  • Mai Lai Massacre

    Mai Lai Massacre

    There were at least 300 Vietnamese civilians killed. This was a united states war crime.
  • Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • Newport Jazz Festival

    Newport Jazz Festival

    This festival shows social change.
  • Chicago 8 Trial

    Chicago 8 Trial

    This was a group of eight men arrested and put on trial for conspiring to incite the riot.A riot breaks out during the Democratic National Convention of 1968.
  • Woodstock

    Woodstock

    Woodstock was the largest and most memorable of dozens of outdoor music festivals that took place between 1967 and 1969. This was an era that began with the widely Monterey Pops Concert
  • The Beatles Break Up

    The Beatles Break Up

    The breakup of The Beatles was mostly money problems, internal power struggles, and the evolving artistic impulses of all four Beatles.
  • Kent State Protest

    Kent State Protest

    This was a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War. The United States military forces as well was protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft.
  • Roe vs. Wade

    Roe vs. Wade

    This is the case that struck down many state abortion laws.