America in the 60s

  • First Televised Presidential Debate

  • Flintstones Airs

  • President Kennedy is Elected

  • Russia Sends First Man into Space

  • Berlin Wall is Constructed

  • Roger Maris Breaks Babe Ruth's Single Season Home Run Record

  • SDS Releases Port Huron Statement

  • Marilyn Monroe Dies

  • James Meredith Registers at Ole Miss

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • I Have a Dream Speech

  • President Kennedy is Assassinated

  • Lyndon B Johnson Defeats Barry Goldwater

  • SNCC Formed

  • The Beatles Arrive in the US

  • New York's World Fair

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  • Malcolm X Assassinated

  • Watt's Race Riots

  • Thurgood Marshall Nominated to Supreme Court

  • Summer of Love Starts

  • Boxer Muhammed Ali Refuses Military Service

  • First NFL Super Bowl

  • Sgt. Pepper is Released

  • LSD Made Illegal

  • Tet Offensive

  • MLK Assassinated

  • Robert Kennedy is Assassinated

  • Protests at Democratic National Convention

  • President Nixon is Elected

  • Stonewall Riots

  • American Astronauts Land on the Moon

  • Manson Family Murders Sharon Tate

  • Woodstock Concert

  • Altamont Music Festival