Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses
Cuban Missle Crisis
First Walmart opened
First Walmart opened
Martin Luther King Jr. gives His "I Have a Dream" Speech
!6th Street Baptist Church Bombing
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a racial hate crime aganst the blacks that killed 4 little girls and injured 22 others.
John F. Kenedy Assassination
Tim O'brien graduted from Worthington, MN Highschool
Civil Rights Act passes
Tim O'brien began his schooling at Macalester College
Sophomore at Macalester College
First U.S troops land in Vietnam
Protests over Mass Draft
Junior at Macalester College
Began his last semester at Macalester College
First Superbowl
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed during launch
Accidental Nerve Gas Leak in Utah Kills 6,000 Sheep
Tim O'brien earned his BA in Political Science from Macalester College
Tim O'brien was drafted into the Vietnam War
Martin Lther King JR assassignated
Tim O'brien was serving in the Vietnam War
Neil Armstrong becomes he firs man on the moon
First concert at Woodstock
Tim O'brien finished his service in the Vietnam War
