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On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected the youngest president and barely beating Richard Nixon in the run.
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On November 22, 1963, John F Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot on Elm St. riding in his motorcade. Lyndon B. Johnson is then sworn in as president.
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On February 9, 1964, The Beatles make thieir first TV appearance in the Ed Sullivan Show
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On August 2, 1964, three North Vietnamese patrol boats attack the American destroyer U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin which was ten miles off the coast of North Vietnam.
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On August 7, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed which gave LBJ the authority to retaliate againsed North Vietnam Forces. People feared he would utilize his new jurisdiction to stengthen the U.S's intervention with the Vietnam War.
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The first ani-war teach-in was held at the University of Michigan. This gathering was orchestrated by two hundred faculty members and the SDS (Students for a Democratic Scociety) then was soon later duplicated by many other universities around the country.
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On August 30, 1965, LBJ signed a bill that outlawed the act of burning or destroying a draft card for the Vietnam War.
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On March 25, 1966, a protest was held in New York City on 5th Avenue where roughly 25,000 people gathered to dissent againsed the Vietnam War.
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On March, 1966, Paul O'Brien and a few of his companions burned their draft cards on the steps of the South Boston Couthouse as a symbol of their protest againsed the Vietnam War.
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On Janruary 14, 1967, the prelude of the "Summer of Love' began in San Fransisco at the Golden Gate Park. This get-together was produced by Michael Bowen as a "gathering of tribes".
