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The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. -
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debates were the first-ever televised U.S. presidential debates, fundamentally shifting politics toward media image and public performance. -
After the assassination, Oswald returned home to retrieve a pistol; he shot and killed a lone Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit shortly afterwards. -
The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was on February 9, 1964, a landmark cultural event watched by a record 73 million viewers. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a 1964 congressional act granting President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam following alleged attacks on U.S. destroyers. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
The standoff continued into the night and around midnight, troops chased most protesters away. The protest was met with resistance from military police and U.S Marshalls, resulting in a total of forty-seven injuries between the protester, soldiers. -
On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy -- and you've got it," said their superior officers. A short time later the killing began. -
A series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention -
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm -
The Beatles officially disbanded in April 1970, with Paul McCartney’s public announcement on April 10 serving as the functional end, though John Lennon had privately quit in September 1969. -
Four unarmed college students were killed and nine wounded by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, United States, on May 4, 1970. -
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability. -
The 1969-70 trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.