1. Read: New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s - Document Overview
2. Read: Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement (1965), Casey Hayden and Mary King
3. Read: The Vietnam Conflict - Document Overview
4. Read: The Rusk McNamara Report (1961)
5. Read: Peace Without Conquest (1965), Lyndon B. Johnson
6. Read: A Compromise Solution in Vietnam (1965), George Ball
7. Read: A North Vietnamese View of American Intervention (1965), Le Duan

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1. View: U2 Surveillance Plane Reveals Missile Launchers on Cuba
2. View: The Tet Offensive, 1968
3. View: John F. Kennedy
4. View: A West Berlin Couple at the Wall
5. View: Sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter
6. View: Police unleash attack dogs on civil-rights demonstrators
7. View: Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington
8. View: South Vietnamese troops
9. View: Lyndon B. Johnson takes the presidential oath on Air Force One
10. View: Malcolm X
11. View: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X

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1. View: Election of 1960
2. View: Vietnam, 1966
3. View: Election of 1968

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1.  Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon recording of the presidential debates,                  c. 1960
2.  President John F. Kennedy recording of his speech on the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1963
3.  Ambassadors Stevenson (U.S) and Zorin (Russian) recording of their debate on missiles in Cuba,                  c. 1962
4.  President Lyndon Baines Johnson recording: the signing of the Civil Rights Bill, c. 1964
5.  Neil Armstrong and Mission Control recording of the moon landing, c. 1969
6.  John F. Kennedy recording of his Inaugural Address, 1961
7.  Senator Robert F. Kennedy recording: the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, c. 1968

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