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| Berkeley student organizations, feeling that their rights to free speech had been abridged, banded together and held a sit-in at the main administration building. The action persuaded university officials to drop the ban on political activity, which had ignited the student action. The Berkeley sit-in started the nation's student protest movement. | 1 |
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| Sept. 3 |
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| The Wilderness Preservation Act placed over a million acres of wilderness under federal jurisdiction. | 2 |
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| Sept. 27 |
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| The voluminous report of the Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of Pres. Kennedy, was released. The report held that Lee Harvey Oswald was solely responsible for the act. Oswald had been shot and killed (Nov. 24, 1963) by Jack Ruby while being transferred from one jail to another. | 3 |
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| Nov |
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| The election gave Pres. Johnson the popular mandate and the congressional majority to push his “Great Society” program. In a rush of liberal legislation, Johnson expanded the social welfare functions of the federal government. The Office of Economic Opportunity established by the Economic Opportunity Act became the centerpiece of the administration's “War on Poverty.” Headstart, Neighborhood Youth Corps, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) were only a few of the programs initiated under the Johnson administration. | 4 |
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