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May 9, 1969: excursion train on the Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway as part of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial . May 1 – Semiconductor company AMD is founded. May 10 – Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at Zap, North Dakota, by the National Guard.
1969: The Year Everything Changed. New York: Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60239-366-0. Matusow, Allen J. The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. ISBN 0-06-015224-9. McCaughey, Robert. Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right (2012) excerpt; Schulman, Bruce J., ed. Rightward bound: Making America conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2008). Thornton, Richard C.
This story accompanied the news article about the rally and ran on page one on Oct. 16, 1969. America, especially young America, has lost a lifetime of innocence since those halcyon days last year ...
American viewers, who had been alerted to the documentary in June [92] would be treated to a 90-minute version (including commercials) starting at 7:30 p.m. on September 21 on the CBS television network. [93] After 1969, the documentary was broadcast in 1972 and never again, though a small clip was shown at the National Portrait Gallery in 2011 ...
That year included a road trip, a pre-law program, a call from Sarah Moore Greene and reelection despite a Democrat voting for a Republican.
The inauguration of Richard Nixon in January led to a reevaluation of the U.S. role in the war. U.S. forces peaked at 543,000 in April. U.S. military strategy remained relatively unchanged from the offensive strategy of 1968 until the Battle of Hamburger Hill in May which led to a change a more reactive approach.