| 1969-12-04 | FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Chicago Police Department · Black Panther Party |
| confirmed |
| 1969-12-01 | Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service
3 src U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance
3 src Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-05-09 | Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak
3 src Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions
6 src U.S. Steel · General Motors · General Electric | | confirmed |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment
3 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason
4 src Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1968-08-01 | Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination
3 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime
3 src Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army |
| confirmed |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1967-12-15 | Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Workers Over 40 from Job Discrimination
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Black Panther Party · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1967-08-15 | CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement
3 src Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches Monthly Newsletter, Building Conservative Communications Network
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols
4 src Ronald Reagan · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · California State Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-23 | Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline
4 src Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
3 src National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson |
| confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
3 src Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · General Dynamics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1966-10-15 | Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression
4 src California State Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1966-08-09 | Dorothy Gautreaux Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Public Housing Segregation
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1966-07-04 | Freedom of Information Act Signed After Decade of Executive Branch Opposition
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Earl Warren · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1966-01-01 | Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans
4 src Wackenhut Corporation · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices
3 src General Motors · Ford Motor Company |
| confirmed |
| 1965-10-03 | Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Emanuel Celler |
| confirmed |
| 1965-09-09 | HUD Created as Cabinet Department, Inherits FHA Discriminatory Practices
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1965-09-08 | Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations
3 src United Farm Workers | | confirmed |
| 1965-08-20 | CIA Begins Phung Hoang/Phoenix Program Neutralization Operations Against Viet Cong Infrastructure
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby | | confirmed |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance
6 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · Richard Russell |
| confirmed |
| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1965-04-11 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1965-03-11 | Reverend James Reeb Dies After White Supremacist Attack in Selma, Killers Acquitted by All-White Jury
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1965-03-07 | Alabama State Troopers Attack Voting Rights Marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Bloody Sunday
3 src John Lewis · Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap"
3 src Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War"
2 src U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40%
3 src U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers | | confirmed |
| 1964-11-21 | FBI Mails Anonymous Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr., Weaponizing Surveillance Material
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · William C. Sullivan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1964-11-03 | AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign
2 src American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1964-09-03 | Wilderness Act Signed After Eight Years of Industry Opposition, Creates National Wilderness Preservation System
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Forest Service |
| confirmed |
| 1964-09-01 | Segregation Academies Proliferate as White Families Flee Integrated Public Schools With Public Subsidies
3 src White Citizens' Councils | | confirmed |
| 1964-08-10 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Signed: LBJ Receives Advance Blank-Check War Authorization, Template for Post-9/11 AUMF
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1964-07-02 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes After Filibuster Defeats Corporate Southern Resistance
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Russell · Strom Thurmond · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration
3 src Ku Klux Klan · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History
3 src Richard Russell | | confirmed |
| 1964-05-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Publishes 'A Choice Not an Echo,' Launching Conservative Movement Infrastructure
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Barry Goldwater · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1964-01-23 | 24th Amendment Ratified Abolishing Poll Tax in Federal Elections After Decades of Voter Suppression
2 src U.S. Congress · State Legislatures | | confirmed |
| 1964-01-01 | Goldwater Presidential Campaign Mobilizes Business Coalition and Establishes Conservative Infrastructure
3 src Barry Goldwater | | confirmed |
| 1963-12-17 | Clean Air Act of 1963 Establishes First Federal Air Pollution Control Despite Industry Opposition
5 src John F. Kennedy · Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · American Petroleum Institute · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1963-10-18 | Hoover Personally Briefs Johnson with King Sex-Surveillance Dossier, Weaponizing Personal Material Against Civil Rights Leader
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Lyndon B. Johnson · William C. Sullivan · Martin Luther King Jr. · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr.
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1963-09-15 | KKK Bombs 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Killing Four Young Girls
3 src Ku Klux Klan · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · John F. Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC
3 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1963-05-03 | Bull Connor Orders Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Against Children in Birmingham Campaign
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. | | confirmed |
| 1962-12-31 | William Volker Fund Closes After Financing Chicago School and Mont Pelerin Society
3 src Hoover Institution · Aaron Director · Milton Friedman · Murray Rothbard | | confirmed |
| 1962-10-10 | Thalidomide Scandal Drives Kefauver-Harris Amendment Strengthening FDA Drug Safety Requirements
3 src Estes Kefauver · John F. Kennedy · Food and Drug Administration | | confirmed |
| 1962-09-30 | Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1962-09-27 | Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring, Chemical Industry Launches Coordinated Attack Campaign
3 src Monsanto |
| confirmed |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying
3 src John F. Kennedy · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights
3 src John F. Kennedy · Federal employees |
| confirmed |
| 1962-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Establishes Defense Committee and Hires First Full-Time President
8 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1961-05-14 | Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention
3 src Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1961-04-17 | Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails: CIA Proprietary Company Model Exposed in Catastrophic Covert Operation
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · John F. Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 1961-01-17 | President Eisenhower's Farewell Address Warns Against Military-Industrial Complex
6 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1961-01-01 | AMA Launches Operation Coffee Cup with Reagan Recording to Defeat Medicare Through Grassroots Deception
10 src American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan | | confirmed |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1960-02-01 | Greensboro Four Launch Sit-In Movement at Woolworth Lunch Counter Challenging Segregation
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors
2 src House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 1960-01-01 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion |
| confirmed |