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was attended by over 13,000 people -
The 1st presidential debate on TV. People who were watching on their Television thought that Kennedy won, and the ones who were listening on the radio thought that Nixon had won. -
JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas while the president was riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
The Beatles made their first live U.S. television appearance. More than 70 million Americans gathered around their televisions to watch. -
Passed by Congress, this allowed the president to make any measure he thought necessary for the protection of the United States. -
American Air Forces bombed Vietnam to keep Ho Chi Minh from taking over South Vietnam. -
U.S. soldiers killed men, women, and children in the village of My Lai. -
The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees against the Vietnam War. -
with the police riot in full swing on Michigan Avenue in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, the Conrad Hilton hotel -
Unarmed college students, along with some others, were protesting at Kent State University. They were later shot at by the Ohio National Guard. Four died and nine were injured. -
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
McCartney said in a press release that he was no longer working with the group, which sparked a widespread media reaction and worsened the tensions between him and his bandmates. -
eight antiwar activists charged with inciting violent demonstrations -
The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does protect a pregnant individual's liberty to have an abortion.