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Newport Jazz Festival
Riot at the Newport Jazz Festival By Marc Myers. The WSJ. News Corp focused on developing and distributing authoritative and engrossing content along with other products and services. -
Nixon-Kennedy Debates
The Nixon-Kennedy debates were the first presidential debates to be broadcasted to national television and radio. Millions of Americans observed or listened to the historic conflict. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
On Feb. 9, 1964. The Beatles appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” They played three of their songs, “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You” and “She Loves You”. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is a resolution of Congress that gave President Lyndon Johnson the power to expand U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was an interrupted bombing campaign that lasted until the end of October 1968. During this time the U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft engaged in a bombing campaign developed to force Ho Chi Minh to abandon his initiative to take over South Vietnam. -
March on the Pentagon
The March on the Pentagon was where Anti-Vietnam war protesters rallied to Washington in the first national march against the war. Many stored nightsticks and small field packs along the Pentagon walls, they would lay in the grass with their heads on their white helmets. -
Mai Lai Massacre
The Mai Lai massacre was a war crime executed by the United States involving the mass murder of over 500 unarmed citizens by the United States Army in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
With the police riot in full swing on Michigan Avenue in front of the Conrad Hilton hotel, television networks posted live as the anti-war protesters started the chant "The whole world is watching". -
Woodstock
Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a music festival held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of Woodstock town. -
Chicago 8 Trial
The trial of eight antiwar activists charged with starting violent protests at the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago before Judge Julius Hoffman. The jury found Davis, Dellinger, Hayden, Hoffman, and Rubin guilty. In a different trial, seven of the police officers were acquitted by the jury, and the case against the eighth was disregarded by the prosecution. -
Kent State Protest
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and injuring nine Kent State students. -
Roe vs. Wade
During Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court realized the right to liberty in the Constitution, which guards personal privacy and contains the right to determine whether to continue a pregnancy.