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The two day event featured academic panel discussions and live music performances from Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lee Konitz, Eddie Condon and many more.
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The 4, 1960 presidential debates with John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were the first televised general-election presidential debates. The first Kennedy-Nixon debate captured over 65 million viewers resulting in a major impact in the election's outcome and outreach. -
Kennedy was on his way to Dealey Plaza when shots were fired and he was hit twice. This occurred at at 12:30 p.m. The vehicle drove to Parkland Memorial Hospital 4 miles away following the shooting. And at 1:00 p.m, Kennedy was pronounced dead. -
The Beatles became a sensation in England when they crossed the pond to perform on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964. They played three songs -- “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You” and “She Loves You”. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to promote security in southeast Asia. -
During this period U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft engaged in a bombing campaign designed to force Ho Chi Minh to abandon his ambition to take over South Vietnam. -
The March on the Pentagon protest involved more than 100,000 attendees at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. Later about 50,000 people marched across the city to The Pentagon and sparked a confrontation with paratroopers on guard. -
The My Lai massacre was an important turning point in American public opinion. It showed the deterioration that was taking place in the behaviour of the US troops. This including the moral argument about the need to save Vietnam from the “evils of communism”. -
During the time of the convention, riots broke out from Anti-Vietnam war protestors. These riots turned into bloody battles after the Chicago police tried to stop the protestors. -
Woodstock was known as a music festival that featured memorable performances by performers such as Crosby, Stills and Nash, Santana, Joe Cocker and Hendrix.
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The Chicago Eight were the first people tried under the first federal anti-riot law. Anti-riot laws were all at the local or state level until the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, which included a provision making it illegal to cross state lines to incite a riot. -
All the members went their separate ways and they unfortunately, were never able to fully reunite. After the split, each Beatle went on to have his own successful and vastly different solo career. -
During this Event, the Ohio National Guard was called to Kent State University for civil unrest as students protested the Vietnam War. -
This event was the beholding that women in the United States had a right to choose whether to have abortions without government restriction and striking down Texas's abortion ban as unconstitutional.