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13 Cards in this Set
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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allegedly assassinated President Kennedy
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Civil Rights leader killed in 1968 in Memphis
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Robert Kennedy
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Senator from New York
challenged Johnson for Democratic nomination assassinated in 1968 while in San Francisco |
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George Wallace
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Governor of Alabama
shot while campaigning for President while in Maryland |
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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became President after Kennedy's death
declined to run in 1968 |
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Barry Goldwater
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Senator from Arizona
Republican candidate for President in 1964 |
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Earl Warren
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Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1953-1969)
pursued policy of judicial activism |
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Eugene McCarthy
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Senator from Minnesota
challenged Johnson for Democratic nomination in 1968 |
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Vice President under Johnson
Democrat nominee for President in 1968 |
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Richard Nixon
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won election of 1968
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Henry Kissinger
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Secretary of State under Nixon
entered a period of detente with USSR |
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William Calley
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1968
led a platoon into My Lai where they killed 300 hundred civilians suspected of supporting the Viet Cong |
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George McGovern
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Senator from South Dakota
Democratic nominee in 1972 election |
