Nov. 22, 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack Ruby

LBJ Swearing In

Civil Rights Act 1964

War on Poverty

Medicaid

Voting Rights Act 1965

Education

Immigration Act 1965

• Hart Cellar Immigration Act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson. Ends the racially motivated "National Origins" criteria of 1924 act. Race-blind immigration leads to new influx of immigrants from Asia and Latin America

Pleiku

Bombing North Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin

USS Maddox

General Westmoreland

Vietcong

The Vietcong were masters at moving through and blending into the local terrain

Ho Chi Minh Trail

My Lai Massacre

Lt. William Calley

Napalm

Agent Orange

Tet Offensive

“The Times, They Are a’ Changin’”

SDS

Protests

• Pentagon Peace Demonstration, Washington, DC, 1967

Hanoi Jane

Veterans for Peace

Joan Baez

Bob Dylan

LBJ