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Newport Jazz Festival
The Jazz festival ticket holders began arriving in Newport by Ferry and car. The Newport Jazz festival started in 1954. The founder of the festival was George Wein. -
Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)
In 1960 John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated off on the first televised presidential debate in American history. The Kennedy Nixon debate had major impact on the elections outcome but also the ushered in a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of the media exposure became essential. It was a turning point of the campaign and also how the Polls revealed that more than half of all voters had been influenced by the debates. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was shot in the car. He was in Texas beginning his campaign trail to be elected again for a second term. Nobody knew why Oswald killed Kennedy except for that he was slightly mentally ill. The impact of JFK had on the country was that the country was in fear what they would do next without their president. -
he Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
At 8 o'clock America turned on to CBS and The Ed Sullivan Show. It was the Beatles first live performance on U.S. soil. Sullivan introduced the Beatles who opened performing the song "All My Loving". -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 7th !964 Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Authorizing President Johnson to take any measure he believed was necessary to retaliate. Also to promote the maintenance of internal peace and security in Southeast Asia. The effects of the movement was by the .S. congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast off of Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launches Americas full scale involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder began on March 2nd 1965 and ended on November 2nd 1968. It was frequently interrupted bombing campaign that began on February 24th 1965 and lasted October 1968. The main purpose of Operation Rolling Thunder was to discourage the Hanoi regimes direction and support of an insurgency that threatened to destroy the republic of Vietnam. -
March on the Pentagon
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War. The protest involved more than 100,000 attended at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. It was the first national demonstration against the war. -
Mai Lai Massacre
It was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by he United States troops. What happened was a company of Americans soldiers brutally killed most of the people such as women, children, and old men. In the village more than 500 people were slaughtered in the Mai Lai Massacre. -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
It started on august 23rd 1968 and ended on august 28th 1968. The convention was held during a year of riots, political turbulence, and also a mass civil unrest. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April of that year inflamed racial tensions to an unprecedented level. -
Woodstock
Woodstock was the most famous rock festivals of the 1960s. The festival Started on August 15th 1969 and ended on August 18th 1969. The full name of the festival was "The Woodstock Music and Art Fair". The festival took place on a farm property in Bethel, New York. -
Chicago 8 Trial
On September 24th 1969 thirteen months after the riots that shocked America the trial of the so called "Chicago eight" began in the oak paneled. In a separate proceeding a jury acquitted seven of the eight indicted police officers and the case against the eighth was dropped. The result of the Chicago 8 trial was while the jury was deliberating their verdict judge Hoffman held the defendants in contempt in court for their behavior and sentenced them up to 29 months in jail. -
The Beatles Break Up
The legal case ground on into the 1970s when the court found in favor of McCartney , leaving tThe Beatles as a legal entity to finally come to an end on December 29th 1974. After the split each Beatle went on to have his own successful and vastly diffrent solo career. -
Kent State Protest
This event was about the killings of four and the wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. The killings took place during a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting. -
Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs. Wade was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant women's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.