1. Despair ( )

2. LBJ’s Legislative Agenda
Lyndon B Johnson becomes president
The History Channel: LBJ
The Great Society
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act Passes in 1964 in part as a tribute to the martyred JFK
A Bold Anti-Poverty Agenda
and the largest since the New Deal

3. However, the Civil Rights Bill Doesn’t Extend to Voting Rights
1965
March on Selma- a peaceful protest is shattered by violence and LBJ is forced to act. The Voting Rights Act becomes law in 1965.
However, the Civil Rights Bill Doesn’t Extend to Voting Rights
Selma: Trailer
History Channel: Voting Rights Act

4. 1965
1st Ground Troops sent to Vietnam – the effort to help the South Vietnamese repel Communism and the Vietcong needs more than military advisorshough
Even though he didn’t start it, LBJ escalates the “war”
and is the president most associated with its failure
Johnson Announces New Troops

5. Even though he didn’t start it, LBJ escalates the “war”
and is the president most associated with its failure
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and The Tonkin Resolution –following this minor skirmish, Congress votes to give LBJ expanded war powersven though
1965
The Newsuem: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

6.
Public Opinion Wanes – Despite a “victory” following the Tet Offensive, it becomes clear that the war in Vietnam is not going as well as the government has said it was
The situation in Vietnam becomes more complicated
The Tet Offensive: USHistory.org
NY Times: “Clay Guilty in Draft Case”
Vietnam and TV News
Video: Muhammad Ali on Vietnam War Draft
Video: Cronkite and the Vietnam War
Protest increase
LBJ will not seek re-election
A high profile draft dodge
Walter Cronkite Speaks Out
 ” It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could”
"My conscious won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America.”
If I’ve lost Walter Cronkite, I’ve lost the American people”

7. MLK and RFK: How can it be?
1968
2 heartbreaking assassinations send America further on its downward spiral
MLK and RFK: How can it be?
Cronkite: MLK Assassination
News RFK Assassination
RFK Funeral /Ted Kenendy’s Eulogy for Bobby
The Last Days of MLK /“The Mountaintop Speech”
RFK Announces the Death of MLK
April 4, 1968
MLK shot by white supremicist James Earl Ray
June 4, 1968
RFK shot by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan
King was in Memphis TN to negotiate a sanitation workers’ strike & was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. He died within an hour
Kennedy was running for President on an anti-Vietnam platform had just declared victory in the decisive Californial presidential primary. He died on June 6.

8. More dissent grips America
1968: images and events illustrate one of most turbulent years of the 20th century
1968: A Year of Unravelling: US History.org
ESPN Video:
The White Guy in the Photo
This Day in History: My Lai Massascre
American athletes give the Black Power Salute during the medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics
Vietnam War Supporters and Protestors clash
violently at the Democratic National Convention. Nixon, a Republican, wins the election
The My Lai Massacre is one of the most troubling events of the Vietnam War

9. One Small Step for Man – One Giant Leap for Mankind
1969
We beat the Russians to the moon!
CBS News Coverage
Walter Cronkite Remembers
Other Space
Milestones
A Failed Moon Mission:
Apollo
Apollo 13 Trailer
News Coverage Apollo 13
Apollo 13 Splashdown
Challenger Explosion 1986
Live News Coverage
Nightly News Coverage
Reagan’s Speech

10. Other Events
Woodstock and Chappaquidick– The Peace Movement gets it groove and the Kennedy dynasty is damaged by scandal
1969
History.com: Woodstock
Chappaquidick and Ted Kenendy’s Legacy

11. Vietnam deteriorates and languishes
Kent State Massacre - Nixon proclaims a plan for “peace with honor” in Vietnam but a last ditch offensive on Cambodia prompts a deadly protest
1970
Vietnam deteriorates and languishes
Newsweek Coverage
CBS News Coverage

12.
Watergate- Nixon’s political paranoia leads to an epic scandal. Two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, bring down a president
The Watergate Scandal
History Channel Overview
Watergate at 40: The Washington Post looks back