Sixties
Events
One of the biggest events of the 1960's was WoodStock.
WoodStock was a time when 500,000 hippies gathered, for "three days of
peace" and music. The festival started on August 15, 1969. Soon, there
were traffic jams, shortages of food, a wide usage of drugs and medical
supplies, and potential problems.
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by
Lee Harvey Oswald. He and his wife were riding in a convertible through
a parade when he was shot. Just moments before his death he was warned
to "be careful in Texas" by a young woman. He was the youngest president
to be sworn in at age 43.
In 1962, actress and model, Marilyn Monroe was found dead by her maid.
She was holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills next to her. Doctors
say that she died of an overdose of them. This was shocking and devastating
to the world.
Martin Luther King Jr. made his most famous speech" I have a Dream". It
begins "I have a dream" and ends "free at last! free at last!". In the
speech he expressed his desire to "sit down at the table of brotherhood"
or for white and black to dissolve their differences and be at peace with
each other. He demonstrated peacefully against segregation by leading marches
and protests. He continued to lead civil rights movements until his
assassination in 1968. In his life span, he ended "Jim Crow" laws. "Jim
Crow" laws where laws that promoted segregation. Check out Martin
Luther King's Life Timeline.
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