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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 first presidential debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took place. -
President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy. -
Granted President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to take any necessary measures to defend US forces and deter aggression in Southeast Asia. -
From Liverpool four guya took to the stage for their first televised performance in America. -
The operation aimed to put pressure on North Vietnam's communist leaders, reduce their capacity to wage war. -
The Beatles disbanded in 1970 due to a combination of factors, including John Lennon's departure, creative differences between band members, and the death of their manager Brian Epstein. -
It was a major anti-Vietnam War protest held. -
The My Lai massacre was a United States war crime committed. -
Around 10,000 protesters gathered in Grant Park for the demonstration, intending to march to the International Amphitheatre where the convention was being held. -
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly known as Woodstock, was a three-day music festival held in Bethel, New York. -
It was a highly publicized 1969-1970 trial of eight anti-war activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. -
During a protest against the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, members of the Ohio National Guard. -
Roe v. Wade was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case decided in 1973 that established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.