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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 -
The first televised U.S. presidential debate, held on September 26, 1960, featured Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon, drastically altering political campaigning by emphasizing image over radio-only, audio-focused arguments. -
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 November 22, 196 -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a 1964 congressional act granting President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam following alleged attacks on U.S. destroyers, -
The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was a historic television debut on February 9, 1964, watched by a record-breaking 73 million viewers, launching the "British Invasion" -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division -
The 1967 March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War that took place on October 21, 1967. -
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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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 broke up due to a combination of growing creative differences, business conflicts (especially over management), strained personal relationships, and individual artistic paths -
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen fired 67 rounds into a crowd of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War expansion into Cambodia at Kent State University. The tragedy left four students dead -
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.