A look at the campaign of Robert Kennedy as he sought to unseat incumbent Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in in 1968. Includes coverage of his assassination and funeral.
Discussion of the three mid-twentieth-century presidents who took the United States through the Cold War, the Cuban blockade, the civil rights movement, and into the Vietnam War.
Discusses the life and career of the thirty-sixth president, whose term was filled with controversy over the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
A history of the 1960s, studying how forces for change that might have been allies ended up becoming enemies, and examining issues such as the civil rights movement, the Kennedy presidency, student rebellions, and the Vietnam War.
Describes the practices of the FBI counterintelligence group COINTELPRO against leftist advocates, proponents of the antiwar movement, hippies, and others that were deemed subversive by the organization in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Chronicles the 1964 campaign for President of the United States, discussing the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and describing the race for power between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater.
