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| FBI Files/Investigations on Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers |
| Port Huron Statement (landmark statement of the emerging student movement) |
| Primary Documents on 1960s activism (UVA's "The Sixties Project") |
| 1960 Sharon Statement of the conservative student group, Young Americans for Freedom |
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| 1960 Kennedy Campaign Flyer |
| JFK Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 |
| 1960 Nixon Campaign Memoribilia |
| Pres. Lyndon Johnson's 1964 speech
to Congress announcing the War on
Poverty |
| Robert Kennedy, visiting with Latino civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, during the latter's 25 day hunger strike in March 1968 |
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| RFK speech honoring
his late brother at the 1964 Democratic national
convention. Many analysts noted the lengthy ovation he received as a sign that the Kennedy had now fully passed to him. |
| RFK speech on
the night of Dr. King's assassination in inner-city
Indianapolis |
| Famous RFK 1966 speech on human rights in South Africa |
| RFK March 1968 speech announcing his candidacy for president |
| Ted Kennedy eulogy for his brother, Bobby Kennedy |
| PBS website on RFK |
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1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which began the U.S.' firm commitment to
the Vietnam War
War Resolution for 2003 Iraqi War (passed October 2002) (for purposes of comparison) |
| PBS Vietnam website on the My Lai Massacre |
| President Lyndon Johnson's April 1965 statement announcing the first and fateful commitment of real combat troops to Vietnam |
| Weaponry of the Vietnam War (PBS website) |
| Who's Who Index of People involved with Vietnam War (PBS website) |
| New York Times Retrospective on the Vietnam War |
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| former White House legal counsel John Dean testifies before the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal |
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| "Smoking Gun" conversation, June 23, 1972, as Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and President Richard Nixon plot alleged obstruction of justice to attempt to halt the FBI's Watergate investigation (includes rare audio recording as well as transcript) |
| An unused Nixon speech, which would have been used if he decided not to resign in August 1974 |
| Image of Nixon's letter resigning the presidency, August 1974 |
| Nixon's presidential resignation speech (including an audio clip of the speech), August 1974 |
| Nixon Administration "Plumbers Unit Documents" |
| The "Huston Plan" for domestic surveillance during the Nixon administration |
| A photographic
collection chronicling the inside of the Nixon administration,
including its slow decay during the Watergate crisis |
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| President Jimmy Carter's famous "Crisis of Confidence" speech to the country, July 1979 (also called the "malaise" speech) |
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| Link to 1970s Lyrics |
| fan site for The Ramones |
| official website for Bruce Springsteen, with a number of links (including lyrics & audio clips) |
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| Elvis Presley's visit to the Nixon White House to ask to be a drug agent |
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| Daniel Yankelovich website.
Yankelovich, in his book The New Morality: A
Profile of American Youth in the Seventies (1978), argued an influential assessment of American culture in the 1970s. He claimed that youth and young adults had come to question basic beliefs and societal institutions in the wake of the Vietnam War and political crises of the 1960s and early 1970s. |
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