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The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. -
The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. -
1960, Kennedy v. Nixon. -
the Beatles had a lineup that consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. This lineup broke up. -
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
At 8 o'clock on February 9th 1964, America tuned in to CBS and The Ed Sullivan Show. But this night was different. 73 million people gathered in front their TV . -
frequently interrupted bombing campaign that began on 24 February 1965 and lasted until the end of October 1968. -
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees
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one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. -
The convention of 1968 was held during a year of riots, political turbulence, and mass civil unrest -
the first of three days of what would become the most iconic music festival of all time
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The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students -
A case in which the Court struck down several Texas laws that criminalized abortion, holding that laws that impose an undue burden on a woman's right -
A riot breaks out during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. A group of eight men are arrested and put on trial for conspiring to incite the riot