Vietnam War

  • North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the American destroyers USS Maddox.

  • U.S. Marines arrived to defend the airbase at Da Nang.

  • American forces searching for enemy troops in an area with a strong Vietcong presence came upon the village of My Lai.

  • Martin Luther King JR. was assainated.

  • Robert Kennedy asserted that "we were a great country, an unselfish country, a compassionate country.

  • Antiwar rally in downtown new york.

  • Robert Geary said "I'm very proud to be an American and I know my boy that was killed in Vietnam would be here today if he was alive, marching with us. I know he died for the right cause, because in his letters he wrote to me he knew what he was fighting

  • Fulbright held a public hearing on the Vietnam War.

  • The United States and North Vietnam came to terms on a peace settlement.

  • Richard Nixon died.