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newport jazz festival
a huge jazz music festival -
nixon-kennedy debates
the first presidential debate on television -
the assassination of JFK
he was in texas and got shot twice in his car -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
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the gulf of tonkin resolution
congress giving president Johnson to take any measure he wanted in vietnam -
operation rolling thunder
a frequent bombing by the U.S. in vietnam that lasted 3 years when it was supposed to last 8 months -
march on the pentagon
a huge protest for the vietnam war -
riots at the chicago democratic convention
The Democratic Convention of 1968 was held August 26-29 in Chicago, Illinois. As delegates flowed into the International Amphitheatre to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War -
chicago 8 trial
The trial for eight antiwar activists charged with inciting violent demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago -
mai lai massacre
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people women, children and old men in the village of My Lai -
woodstock
music festival -
the beatles break up
the beatles got exausted because they went on tour a lot and they couldnt hear themselfs playing over their fans going crazy -
kent state protest
students protest the bombing of cambodia by the U.S. military -
roe vs wade
landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.