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The Newport Jazz Festival experimented with music for the first time on July 3, 1969. The festival's 1969 program was an experiment in jazz, and rock music and audiences. -
1960 presidential debates with John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was the first televised general election presidential debates, bringing new material to the presidential candidates' campaigning. -
approximately 12:30 p.m. President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade with his wife -
was a historic event that was the beginning of Beatlemania in America. Over 73 million viewers watched. -
A congressional provided President Lyndon B. Johnson with extensive powers to undertake all essential actions to counter any military aggression against U.S. forces in Southeast Asia. -
bombing campaign targeting North Vietnam called Rolling Thunder Planners aimed to improve the South Vietnamese troops, disrupt the supply lines heading south, and discourage North Vietnamese hostilities. -
A major protest against the Vietnam War featured a large gathering that marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. -
trial of eight anti-war activists accused of conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago -
History of My Lai Massacre, the mass killing of hundreds of unarmed civilians by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. -
around 10,000 protesters gathered in Grant Park for the riot -
Music and Art Fair The fair was held on 600 acre of a dairy farm in Bethel, New York -
when Paul McCartney announced he was taking a break from the band. However, the legal discussion of it wasn't finalized until December 29, 1974. -
The Kent State shootings led to the deaths of four students and injuries to nine more when Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a group of students at Kent State University. -
women in the United States basic right to for an abortion without undue governmental limitations and declaring Texas's abortion