1960s
The 1960s contain 78 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-12-04 | FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid Fred Hampton · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Chicago Police Department · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1969-12-01 | Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service Selective Service System · U.S. Congress · Congressman Alexander Pirnie | confirmed | |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize Journalist Seymour Hersh · Whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour · Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · William Rehnquist · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1969-05-09 | Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Alexander Haig · J. Edgar Hoover · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians President Richard Nixon · National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger · Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird · Secretary of State William Rogers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions Roger Blough · Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable · U.S. Steel · General Motors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · George Wallace · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1968-08-01 | Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning Robert Maxwell · Yuri Andropov · KGB · Oleg Gordievsky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph Lee Jones · Alfred H. Mayer Company | confirmed | |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory Robert F. Kennedy · Sirhan Sirhan · 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 President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · National Association of Real Estate Boards · National Association of Realtors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers Martin Luther King Jr. · James Earl Ray · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Memphis Police | confirmed | |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime Lieutenant William Calley · Captain Ernest Medina · Charlie Company 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment · Hugh Thompson Jr. (helicopter pilot who intervened) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash Kerner Commission · Governor Otto Kerner Jr. · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon | confirmed | |
| 1967-12-15 | Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Workers Over 40 from Job Discrimination President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders 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 Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency · James Angleton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1967-08-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches Monthly Newsletter, Building Conservative Communications Network Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · National Federation of Republican Women | confirmed | |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols Governor Ronald Reagan · Don Mulford · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1967-07-23 | Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline Detroit Police Department · Michigan National Guard · Insurance Industry · Corporate interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens Marshall Carter · Louis Tordella · National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation Ramparts Magazine · Central Intelligence Agency · National Student Association · Sol Stern · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption RMK-BRJ consortium · Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1966-10-15 | Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression Bobby Seale · Huey P. Newton · FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover · California State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires President Lyndon B. Johnson · Ralph Nader · General Motors · James Roche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1966-08-09 | Dorothy Gautreaux Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Public Housing Segregation Dorothy Gautreaux · Chicago Housing Authority · 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 President Lyndon B. Johnson · Representative John Moss · Senator Edward Long · American Society of Newspaper Editors | confirmed | |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Earl Warren · Richard Nixon · Law enforcement organizations | confirmed | |
| 1966-01-01 | Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans George Wackenhut · Wackenhut Corporation · Karl Baarslag · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices Ralph Nader · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · Chrysler Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-10-03 | Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator Philip Hart · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator James Eastland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-09-09 | HUD Created as Cabinet Department, Inherits FHA Discriminatory Practices President Lyndon B. Johnson · Robert C. Weaver · National Association of Home Builders · National Association of Real Estate Boards | confirmed | |
| 1965-09-08 | Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations United Farm Workers · Cesar Chavez · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee · Delano Grape Growers | confirmed | |
| 1965-08-20 | CIA Begins Phung Hoang/Phoenix Program Neutralization Operations Against Viet Cong Infrastructure Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · Robert Komer · MACV-SOG · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · Southern Democratic Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign President Lyndon B. Johnson · President Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-04-11 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Education Association | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-11 | Reverend James Reeb Dies After White Supremacist Attack in Selma, Killers Acquitted by All-White Jury James Reeb · Elmer Cook · William Stanley Hoggle · Namon O'Neal Hoggle · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-07 | Alabama State Troopers Attack Voting Rights Marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Bloody Sunday John Lewis · Hosea Williams · Alabama State Troopers · Amelia Boynton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap" Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator J. William Fulbright · 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" Bell Helicopter · U.S. Department of Defense · Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association | confirmed | |
| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40% U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers · Labor reformers · Civil rights organizations | confirmed | |
| 1964-11-21 | FBI Mails Anonymous Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr., Weaponizing Surveillance Material J. Edgar Hoover · William C. Sullivan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-11-03 | AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign William J. Baroody Sr. · American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · Wright Patman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1964-09-03 | Wilderness Act Signed After Eight Years of Industry Opposition, Creates National Wilderness Preservation System President Lyndon B. Johnson · Howard Zahniser · Wilderness Society · U.S. Forest Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1964-09-01 | Segregation Academies Proliferate as White Families Flee Integrated Public Schools With Public Subsidies White Citizens' Councils · Southern state legislatures · Jerry Falwell Sr. · Private school founders | confirmed | |
| 1964-08-10 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Signed: LBJ Receives Advance Blank-Check War Authorization, Template for Post-9/11 AUMF Lyndon B. Johnson · Wayne Morse · Ernest Gruening · J. William Fulbright · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation President 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 President Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democratic Senators · Richard Russell · Strom Thurmond · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration James Chaney · Andrew Goodman · Michael Schwerner · Ku Klux Klan · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History Southern Democratic Caucus · Richard Russell · Robert Byrd · Hubert Humphrey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-05-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Publishes 'A Choice Not an Echo,' Launching Conservative Movement Infrastructure Phyllis Schlafly · Barry Goldwater · John Birch Society · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1964-01-23 | 24th Amendment Ratified Abolishing Poll Tax in Federal Elections After Decades of Voter Suppression U.S. Congress · State Legislatures · Civil rights movement | confirmed | |
| 1964-01-01 | Goldwater Presidential Campaign Mobilizes Business Coalition and Establishes Conservative Infrastructure Barry Goldwater · John M. Ashbrook · William A. Rusher · F. Clifton White · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1963-12-17 | Clean Air Act of 1963 Establishes First Federal Air Pollution Control Despite Industry Opposition President John F. Kennedy · President 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 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. J. Edgar Hoover · Robert F. Kennedy · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-09-15 | KKK Bombs 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Killing Four Young Girls Ku Klux Klan · Robert Chambliss · Thomas Blanton · Bobby Frank Cherry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech Martin Luther King Jr. · Bayard Rustin · A. Philip Randolph · John F. Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC Business-Industry Political Action Committee · National Association of Manufacturers · BIPAC | confirmed | |
| 1963-05-03 | Bull Connor Orders Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Against Children in Birmingham Campaign Bull Connor · Martin Luther King Jr. · James Bevel · Birmingham Police · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1962-12-31 | William Volker Fund Closes After Financing Chicago School and Mont Pelerin Society William Volker Fund · Harold Luhnow · Hoover Institution · Institute for Humane Studies · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1962-10-10 | Thalidomide Scandal Drives Kefauver-Harris Amendment Strengthening FDA Drug Safety Requirements Senator Estes Kefauver · Representative Oren Harris · President John F. Kennedy · Frances Kelsey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1962-09-30 | Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign Cesar Chavez · Dolores Huerta · National Farm Workers Association · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee | confirmed | |
| 1962-09-27 | Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring, Chemical Industry Launches Coordinated Attack Campaign Rachel Carson · Monsanto · American Cyanamid · Velsicol Chemical Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying Cecil R. King · Clinton Anderson · John F. Kennedy · Wilbur Mills · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights John F. Kennedy · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Federal employees · Jerry Wurf | confirmed | |
| 1962-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Establishes Defense Committee and Hires First Full-Time President National Association of Manufacturers · Werner P. Gullander · National Defense Committee | confirmed | |
| 1961-05-14 | Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention Congress of Racial Equality · Bull Connor · Robert Kennedy · Ku Klux Klan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1961-04-17 | Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails: CIA Proprietary Company Model Exposed in Catastrophic Covert Operation CIA · Allen Dulles · Richard Bissell · John F. Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1961-01-17 | President Eisenhower's Farewell Address Warns Against Military-Industrial Complex Dwight D. Eisenhower · Malcolm Moos · Ralph Williams · Milton Eisenhower | confirmed | |
| 1961-01-01 | AMA Launches Operation Coffee Cup with Reagan Recording to Defeat Medicare Through Grassroots Deception American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · Loyal Davis · Women's Auxiliary of the AMA | confirmed | |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance 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 Ezell Blair Jr. · David Richmond · Franklin McCain · Joseph McNeil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors F. Edward Hebert · House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics · Frank Pace | confirmed | |
| 1960-01-01 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion | confirmed |