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the first presidential debates to be broadcast to a nationwide television and radio audience -
JFK got shot -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show -
gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam -
massive demonstration against the Vietnam War -
More than 500 people were slaughtered in the My Lai massacre -
television networks broadcast live as the anti-war protesters began the now-iconic chant "The whole world is watching". -
gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War -
The Newport Jazz Festival experimented with rock music for the first time on July 3, 1969 -
Music and art fair -
The jury found Davis, Dellinger, Hayden, Hoffman, and Rubin guilty of traveling across state lines with intent to incite a riot. In a separate trial, seven of the police officers were acquitted by the jury, and the case against the eighth was dismissed by the prosecution. -
Paul McCartney's “self-interview” was seized upon by the international media as an official announcement of a Beatles breakup. -
killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard -
a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant individual's liberty to have an abortion