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1973-03-21San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality
Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · +2
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1973-03-19Judge Sirica Uses Maximum Sentences to Break Watergate Cover-up, McCord Writes Explosive Letter
John Sirica · James W. McCord Jr. · G. Gordon Liddy · +2
5
1973-02-16Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders
Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +1
4
1973-02-16Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism
Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +5
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1973-01-30G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord Convicted in Watergate Burglary Trial, Five Others Plead Guilty
G. Gordon Liddy · James W. McCord Jr. · Bernard Barker · +5
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1973-01-22Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization
U.S. Supreme Court · Nellie Gray
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1973-01-01ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures
Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · +3
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1973-01-01BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries
Agha Hasan Abedi · BCCI management · Swaleh Naqvi · +1
4
1973-01-01Paul Weyrich Begins Official Coalition Meetings, Coordinating Conservative Movement
Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +1
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1973-01-01R.J. Rushdoony Publishes "The Institutes of Biblical Law": Intellectual Foundation for Christian Dominionism
Rousas John Rushdoony · Gary North · Chalcedon Foundation
3
1972-12-01Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power
John Connally · Arthur Burns · Reginald Jones · +3
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1972-11-01Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing
Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · New Right
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1972-11-01National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization
National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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1972-10-18Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions
Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · +3
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1972-09-28Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint
Jack Anderson · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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1972-09-01BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure
Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · +3
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1972-09-01CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter
Donald Segretti · Dwight L. Chapin · Ken W. Clawson · +3
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1972-08-22Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power
Clifford Case · Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · +2
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1972-06-23Smoking Gun Tape: Nixon Orders CIA to Block FBI Watergate Investigation
Richard Nixon · H.R. Haldeman · Vernon Walters · +3
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1972-06-19Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
Lewis Powell · Damon Keith · White Panther Party · +2
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1972-06-17Five Burglars Arrested Breaking into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Watergate Complex
James W. McCord Jr. · E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · +4
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1972-05-02J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility
J. Edgar Hoover · L. Patrick Gray · Helen Gandy · +3
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1972-03-30Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
Boys Town · Warren Buffett · Paul Williams · +3
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1972-03-03Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation
United Auto Workers Local 1112 · General Motors Assembly Division · General Motors Corporation · +1
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1972-03-01Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
Agha Hasan Abedi · Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan · Bank of America
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1972-02-01Phyllis Schlafly Launches STOP ERA Campaign, Pioneering Anti-Feminist Infrastructure
Phyllis Schlafly · STOP ERA · Catholic Church · +2
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1972-01-07Lewis Powell Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice, Begins Implementing Corporate Blueprint
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Richard Nixon · U.S. Supreme Court · +1
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1972-01-01Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates
Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · +3
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1971-10-22Nixon Nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court Two Months After Corporate Blueprint Memo
Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · John Mitchell · +2
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1971-10-21Nixon nominates Lewis Powell to Supreme Court two months after corporate blueprint memo
Richard Nixon · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Senate · +1
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1971-09-04Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents
Richard Nixon · John Dean · Charles Colson · +2
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1971-09-03White House Plumbers Break Into Daniel Ellsberg Psychiatrist Office Seeking Pentagon Papers Dirt
E. Howard Hunt · G. Gordon Liddy · Chuck Colson · +4
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1971-08-23Lewis Powell Writes Landmark Memo Blueprinting Corporate Institutional Capture Strategy
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Eugene B. Sydnor Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1
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1971-08-15Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses
Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · +1
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1971-08-15Nixon's New Economic Policy: Unilateral Price Controls, Gold-Window Closure, and 10% Import Surcharge Demonstrate Peak Imperial Presidency
Richard Nixon · John Connally · Arthur Burns · +2
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1971-06-30Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Press Freedom in Pentagon Papers Case - Rejects Nixon Administration Prior Restraint Attempt
U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · +3
6
1971-06-17Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One"
Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman
2
1971-06-13Pentagon Papers Published Revealing Systematic Government Deception About Vietnam War
Daniel Ellsberg · New York Times · Washington Post · +4
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1971-04-28Hoover Abolishes Formal COINTELPRO Operations After Media Expose, But Informal Operations Continue
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
3
1971-03-29William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest
Lieutenant William Calley · President Richard Nixon · Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway · +1
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1971-03-24Citizens' Commission Distributes COINTELPRO Files to Press, NBC Reports FBI Surveillance Operations
Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI · NBC News · Washington Post · +3
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1971-03-08COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed
Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
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1971-01-01Corporate Lobbying Expansion Begins, Growing From 175 to 2,500 Firms by 1982
U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate America
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1971-01-01Oregon Passes Nation's First Forest Practices Act, Drafted by Timber Industry to Preempt Federal Regulation
Oregon Legislature · Tom McCall · Oregon timber industry · +1
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1970-12-31Clean Air Act of 1970 Creates EPA and National Air Quality Standards Despite Industry Opposition
President Richard Nixon · Senator Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · +3
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1970-12-29Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety
President Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · AFL-CIO · +2
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1970-12-02Nixon Creates Environmental Protection Agency Consolidating Federal Environmental Authority
President Richard Nixon · William Ruckelshaus · Council on Environmental Quality
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1970-09-13Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine
Milton Friedman · Chicago School economists
2
1970-07-14Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects
Richard Nixon · Tom Charles Huston · J. Edgar Hoover · +5
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1970-07-10IRS Adopts Non-Discrimination Policy for Private Schools After Court Order Targeting Segregation Academies
Internal Revenue Service · Federal Courts · Civil rights organizations · +1
4
1970-06-22Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18
Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · +1
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1970-04-22First Earth Day Mobilizes 20 Million Americans, Launches Modern Environmental Movement
Senator Gaylord Nelson · Denis Hayes · Environmental Action · +1
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1970-01-01John Olin Activates Foundation to Fund Law and Economics Programs at Elite Universities
John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation · University of Chicago Law School
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1970-01-01Maxwell Establishes Eastern Bloc Scientific Literature Publishing Network
Robert Maxwell · Pergamon Press · Eastern Bloc governments · +1
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1970-01-01Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure
Richard Scaife · Pittsburgh Tribune-Review · Scaife Foundations
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1970-01-01Richard Viguerie Pioneers Computerized Direct Mail, Revolutionizing Conservative Fundraising
Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · +1
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1970-01-01Roger Ailes Creates Plan for Nixon's "GOP TV" Pro-Administration Network
Roger Ailes · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · +1
4
1969-12-04FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid
Fred Hampton · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +4
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1969-12-01Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service
Selective Service System · U.S. Congress · Congressman Alexander Pirnie
3
1969-11-12Seymour 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 · +2
5
1969-07-17Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance
Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · +3
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1969-05-09Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak
Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · Alexander Haig · +3
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1969-03-18Nixon 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 · +3
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1969-01-01Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions
Roger Blough · Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable · U.S. Steel · +5
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1968-11-05Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment
Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · +2
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1968-10-22Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason
Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · +4
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1968-08-01Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning
Robert Maxwell · Yuri Andropov · KGB · +3
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1968-06-17Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination
U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph Lee Jones · Alfred H. Mayer Company
3
1968-06-05Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory
Robert F. Kennedy · Sirhan Sirhan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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1968-04-11Fair 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 · +2
5
1968-04-04Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers
Martin Luther King Jr. · James Earl Ray · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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1968-03-16My 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 · +2
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1968-03-01Kerner 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 · +1
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1967-12-15Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Workers Over 40 from Job Discrimination
President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz · +1
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1967-08-25FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · +2
5
1967-08-15CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement
Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency · +3
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1967-08-01Phyllis Schlafly Launches Monthly Newsletter, Building Conservative Communications Network
Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · National Federation of Republican Women
3
1967-07-28Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols
Governor Ronald Reagan · Don Mulford · National Rifle Association · +2
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1967-07-23Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline
Detroit Police Department · Michigan National Guard · Insurance Industry · +2
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1967-07-01NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
Marshall Carter · Louis Tordella · National Security Agency · +2
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1967-03-01Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation
Ramparts Magazine · Central Intelligence Agency · National Student Association · +3
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1967-01-01Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
RMK-BRJ consortium · Halliburton · Lockheed · +3
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1966-10-15Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression
Bobby Seale · Huey P. Newton · FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover · +1
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1966-09-09National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires
President Lyndon B. Johnson · Ralph Nader · General Motors · +2
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1966-08-09Dorothy Gautreaux Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Public Housing Segregation
Dorothy Gautreaux · Chicago Housing Authority · American Civil Liberties Union · +1
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1966-07-04Freedom of Information Act Signed After Decade of Executive Branch Opposition
President Lyndon B. Johnson · Representative John Moss · Senator Edward Long · +1
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1966-06-13Miranda 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 · +1
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1966-01-01Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans
George Wackenhut · Wackenhut Corporation · Karl Baarslag · +1
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1965-11-30Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices
Ralph Nader · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +2
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1965-10-03Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition
President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator Philip Hart · Representative Emanuel Celler · +3
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1965-09-09HUD Created as Cabinet Department, Inherits FHA Discriminatory Practices
President Lyndon B. Johnson · Robert C. Weaver · National Association of Home Builders · +1
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1965-09-08Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations
United Farm Workers · Cesar Chavez · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee · +1
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1965-08-20CIA Begins Phung Hoang/Phoenix Program Neutralization Operations Against Viet Cong Infrastructure
Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · Robert Komer · +3
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1965-08-06Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance
President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · +2
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1965-07-30Medicare 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 · +2
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1965-04-11Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding
President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Education Association
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1965-03-11Reverend James Reeb Dies After White Supremacist Attack in Selma, Killers Acquitted by All-White Jury
James Reeb · Elmer Cook · William Stanley Hoggle · +2
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1965-03-07Alabama State Troopers Attack Voting Rights Marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Bloody Sunday
John Lewis · Hosea Williams · Alabama State Troopers · +2
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1965-03-01McNamara 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 · +1
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1965-01-01Bell 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
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