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nixon-kennedy debates (1st on television)
Nixon and Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy. The first-ever televised debate between presidential candidates was held on September 26, 1960. An estimated total of sixty to seventy million viewers watched the first and the successive debates, which came to be known as “the Great Debates.” -
Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)
The first presidential debate was held at WBBM-TV, Chicago on Monday, September 26, 1960. Howard K. Smith moderated the discussion with Sander Vanocur, Charles Warren, Stuart Novins, and Bob Fleming as panelists. Questions were restricted to internal or domestic American matters. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was in the vehicle with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, when he was fatally shot from the nearby Texas School Book Depository by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
The Night That Changed Music Forever: The Beatles' American Debut on The Ed Sullivan Show turns 60. Sixty years ago, on February 9, 1964, four lads from Liverpool took to the stage for their first televised performance in America, forever altering the course of music history. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a frequently interrupted bombing campaign that began on 24 February 1965 and lasted until October 1968. -
The Beatles Break Up
In reality, the breakup of The Beatles was multifaceted and complex: money problems, Brian Epstein's death, John's relationship with Yoko, not to mention creative divergences, internal power struggles, and the evolving artistic impulses of all four Beatles. -
March on the Pentagon
The October 1967 Pentagon riot, the first national protest against the war, exemplified the agonizingly divisive debate over Vietnam. Ironically, the demonstrators helped the federal government confirm its commitment to civilian control. Civilian Deputy Marshals, not soldiers, arrested them. -
Mai Lai Massacre
The shooting of hundreds of people in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1968 marked a pivotal turning point in America's feelings about the Vietnam War. -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place before and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968. -
Newport Jazz Festival
The festival's 1969 program was an experiment in fusing jazz, soul, and rock music, and their respective audiences. -
Woodstock
Early in 1969, Roberts and Rosenman were New York City entrepreneurs, in the process of building Mediasound, a recording studio complex in Manhattan. Lang and Kornfeld's lawyer, Miles Lourie, who had done legal work on the Mediasound project, suggested contacting Roberts and Rosenman about financing a similar, but much smaller, studio Kornfeld and Lang hoped to build in Woodstock, New York. -
Kent State Protest
The most prolific university protest of the Vietnam War happened at Kent State University in Ohio in May 1970. Students started protesting the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on their campus on May 6. -
Roe vs. Wade
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. However, the government retained the power to regulate or restrict abortion access depending on the stage of pregnancy. -
Chicago 8 Trial
The Chicago 8 Trial, infamous for its shocking excesses both in and outside a federal courtroom, presents cross-cur- rents of democratic thinking that probe the foundational values of government of, by, and for the people.