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The Newport Jazz Festival riot was a multiple-day riot that consisted of multiple different incidents that all happened during the festival. -
The Nixon-Kennedy Debates would be the first presidential debates that would be on TV and would mark the need to not only talk the part but look the part to be the president of the US. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a resolution passed by Congress allowing the president to escalate the conflict in Vietnam. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
took place in Dallas, Texas, and was done by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Beatles would appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, which would cause a cultural earthquake that would affect almost all of the US, and would mark the start of the British Invasion. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a military bombing of Vietnam that went from lasting 3 weeks to over 3 years -
The March on the Pentagon was a massive Vietnam War protest that happened in Washington, D.C. over 100,000 protester would be at it. -
The Mai Lai Massacre was a war crime committed by soldiers of the United States were an entire village of South Vietnamese, unarmed civilians were killed, men, women, and children. -
The Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
were done by about 10,000 people, it started as a protest that would soon turn violent, becoming a riot. The riot would lead to the Chicago 8 Trial. -
The Chicago 8 Trial was the trial of David T. Dellinger, Rennard C. Davis, Thomas E. Hayden, Abbott H. Hoffman, Jerry C. Rubin, Lee Weiner, John R. Froines, and Bobby Seale, eight men who were accused of inciting the riots during the Democratic National Convention of 1968 -
Woodstock, 1969, had close to 500,000 attendees, two of whom died, and a lot of psychedelic drugs, making it and the hippy movement synonymous. -
The Beatles broke up formally on Dec 29th, 1974, but the first of The Beatles to say he was leaving the group was McCartney on April 19th, 1970. -
The Kent State Protest was a Vietnam War protest that happened at Kent State University. The National Guard was deployed to stop the protest, and they opened fire, killing four and wounding nine -
The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, in which abortions became a right for women that couldn't be taken away by a state