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A music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. -
Observers at the time felt that Kennedy won the first debate, Nixon won the second and third debates, while the fourth debate, which was seen as the strongest performance by both men, was a draw. The third debate has been notable, as it brought about a change in the debate process. -
JFK gets assassinated. -
The Beatles' record-breaking first live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, at Studio 50 in New York City. -
A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed. -
The title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. -
A massive demonstration against the Vietnam War. The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. -
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. -
The Mỹ Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam. -
Thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets.
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Woodstock was a music festival. It had 3 Days of Peace & Music and was also referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival. -
An ambiguous Paul McCartney “self-interview” was seized upon by the international media as an official announcement of a Beatles breakup. -
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 landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.