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Communists launch attacks on South Vietnamese towns. 3,000 Americans and 32,000 Viet Cong are killed. Public support for the war starts to decline.
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American soldiers slaughter a South Vietnemese village that was suspected of housing Viet Cong. Later found to be mostly innocent people.
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LBJ's disapproval rating hits 60%. He announced he would not be running for office again.
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Civil Rights leater Martin Luther King jr is assasinated in Tenesse. This causes great discontent and riots in many cities followed.
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New York senator Robert Kennedy, younger brother of murdered president John F Kennedy, is assasinated in Los Angeles.
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LBJ's vice presiednt Hubert Humphrey announces that he is running for office. This created a public outrage, as many feared he shared in LBJ's views and policies.
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Republicsn Richard M Nixon is elected to be the 37th president of the United States. Nixon had already ran and lost to JFK in 1960.
