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The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island. -
The first televised U.S. presidential debate, held on September 26, 1960, in Chicago, featured John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, fundamentally shifting election campaigns toward television. Kennedy appeared poised and tanned, while a recovering, makeup-free Nixon appeared pale and anxious, leading TV viewers to see Kennedy as the winner while radio listeners often favored Nixon -
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963. -
The Beatles made several appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, including three in February 1964 that were among their first appearances in front of an American audience. Their first appearance, on February 9, was seen by over 73 million viewers and came to be regarded as a cultural watershed that launched -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 7, 1964) was a joint congressional resolution passed in response to alleged attacks on U.S. ships by North Vietnam. It authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to use conventional military force in Southeast Asia without a formal declaration of war, allowing him to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack" -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam from February 24th 1965 until the 2nd of November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. -
On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy -- and you've got it," said their superior officers. A short time later the killing began. When news of the atrocities surfaced, it sent shockwaves through the U.S. political establishment, the military's chain of command, and an already divided American public. -
A series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days, from August 23 to August 29, 1968, and drew an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 anti-war protesters in total. -
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 60 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock. -
The Beatles officially broke up in April 1970, when Paul McCartney announced his departure, although John Lennon had privately left in September 1969. The split was caused by accumulated tensions, including the death of manager Brian Epstein, business disputes (specifically over hiring Allen Klein), artistic differences, and a desire for individual creative freedom -
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine. The incident, triggered by protests against the invasion of Cambodia and burning of a campus building, triggered a nationwide student strike and solidified the university as a symbol of anti-war activism -
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability -
A riot breaks out during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. A group of eight men are arrested and put on trial for conspiring to incite the riot, including Abbie Hoffman (Michael Lembeck), the noted political prankster. Throughout his court battle, Hoffman frequently feuds with Judge Julius…
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