Timeline

Timeline

(Revised Thu Jun 29 2023)

 

Posted on this timeline are the significant events of the 60’s

 

This is not a all inclusive list

 

Not sure of the dates below – need verifying

            What are the dates of the Civil Rights Movement

            1970?               Weather underground (check spelling) bomb factory explodes in Greenwich                                                   Village killing three Underground members

            Mar 12, 1978 or

Mar 12, 1980 Kathleen Ann Soliah a/k/a Sara Ann Olsen married Gerald Fred Petersen 

 

1960

Freedom Riders

Part of the civil rights movement

 

1961

 

1962

Students for a Democratic Party (SDS) was formed

  1st Student Protest at Berkley

 

Aug 5               

Marilyn Monroe dies

 

1963

Aug 28            

March on Washington

Part of the civil rights movement

 

Nov 22

President Kennedy Assassinated

Shot at 12:30 p.m.

Died at 1:00 p.m.

 

1964

Freedom Summer

Push to register black voters

 

Feb 9 (Sun)     

The Beatles debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show

 

Aug 2          

Tokin Incident

 

Aug 7               

Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

US officially enters the Vietnam War

 

1965

Jan                   

Robert Kennedy began serving as senator to Massachusetts

 

April                

SDS organizes the first national anti – Vietnam war march in Washington, D.C., drawing over 15,000 people, most of them students. In following three months, the number of local chapter triples to well over 100 and the national membership of SDS grows to several thousand.

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Sept 24           

President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246, prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, and national origin by those organizations receiving federal contracts and subcontracts.

A Brief History of Affirmative Action - OEOD | UCI

https://www.oeod.uci.edu/policies/aa_history.php

 

1966

 

1967

Katherine Ann Powers Graduated from Mary Crest High School, Denver, CO


Summer of Love


March on the Pentagon

 

Jun    1            

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Album was released

 

Oct 18             

Madison

 

1968

Martin Luther King assassinated


White Album released by the Beatles


Republican National Convention

 

Jan 31 – Sep 23  

Tet Offensive

 

March 29 – 31   

The Malcom X Society organizes the Black Government Conference in Detroit, Michigan which is attended by over 500 Black national leaders who form the provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). The RNA is comprised of 5 states in the southern U.S. which the participants consider the historic nation of the descendants of Afrikan slaves. The meeting which is held in a church comes under armed police attack which is actively resisted against by the RNA members

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Apr 23             

Columbia University Strike

 

June 6             

Robert Kennedy assassinated

 

June                

At the SDS National Convention in East Lansing, Michigan, PL can only muster a minority of delegates. Outright conflict develops between the PL and the rest of the SDS. The majority of the delegates at the convention stand up, raise their clenched fists, and chant “PL Our”

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Oct 8–11         

Days of Rage

 

1969

Aug                  

Susan Atkins (Mason Girl) killed Sharon Tate and four of Tate’s house guests

 

Aug 15–18      

Woodstock

 

Aug 29 – Sep 1   

A three day mass meeting was held in Cleveland to build support for the upcoming SSD National Action, during which Bill Ayers gave a major speech.

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Sep 3               

Weatherman action in Pittsburgh organized and led by women

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Sep 24             

The “Conspiracy 8” trial opens in Chicago. A violent Weatherman action takes place outside the courthouse, resulting in 19 multiple felony arrests of Weatherman members.

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Oct              

Moratorium Day

 

Oct 29             

Bobby Seale is gagged during the “conspiracy 8” trial.

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Nov 3              

Nixon’s Speech

 

1970                

                           Katherine Ann Powers added to FBI’s Most Wanted List

 

Mar 6               In a Greenwich Village townhouse in New York, an accidental explosion occurs in which ted Gold, Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins are killed.

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April 3              12 Weatherman are indicted by a federal grand jury on 13 counts (one count each for crossing state lines intending to incite a riot and one count of conspiring to do the above).

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Apr 30              U.S. President Nixon announces the invasion of Cambodia by U.S. Armed Forces and South Vietnamese (ARVN) troops in an attempt to root out NVA and NLF forces who have bases in eastern Cambodia.

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                           Within hours demonstrations break out across the U.S. and on many college campuses

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May   4             Kent State

 

May 13            two Black youth are killed at Jackson State College in Mississippi.

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Six Black civil rights protesters are killed in Augusta, Georgia.

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May 14            University of Mississippi

 

May 14            Jackson State University? need to re verify

 

Sept 15            Jail break at San Luis Obispo The Weatherman underground issues its fourth communique announcing they have helped Dr. Timothy Leary escape from prison in San Luis Obispo, California.

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Sep   20            State Street Bank and Trust robbed, by                             , Walter Schroeder was killed

Katherine Ann Powers was part of the crew

 

Oct 5                The Weatherman underground once again bombs the Haymarket police statue in Chicago.

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Oct 8                Early in the morning of the 8th they bomb the Marin County Courthouse

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Oct 9                The Weatherman underground bombs the Criminal Courthouse in Long Island, New York in response to a five day uprising and seizure of the “Tombs” by prisoners including some of the Panther 21.

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Oct 14              The Proud Eagle Tribe of Weather (later renamed the Women’s Brigade of the Weather Underground) bombs the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. This attack was carried out in reaction to the arrest of Angela Davis and was the first action undertaken by an all – women’s unit of Weather.

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1971

                           Susan Atkins (Mason Girl) sentenced to death

 

Symbionese Liberation Army Founded

in the San Francisco Bay area

by Russell Little and Robyn Sue Steiner

                           What Is the Symbionese Liberation Army?

By Chris Suellentrop Jan. 24 2002 6:15 PM

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2002/01/what_is_the_symbionese_liberation_army.html

 

Feb 28              In response to the invasion by U.S. troops and massive B 52 bombing in Laos, a Weather cell bombs a section of the U.S. Capitol Building.

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Apr 24 – May 6  Massive anti-war demonstrations and riots take place in Washington, D.C. which see over 12,000 people arrested.

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May             After 26 months the Panther 21 trial ends in the acquittal of all defendants.

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Sept 9-13        An uprising takes place at Attica State Penitentiary in New York state were 9 guards are

taken hostage and one of the yards is taken over.

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Sep 23              (part of paragraph above) On the 13th Governor Rockefeller orders an armed attack on

the prison yard in which 30 prisoners and all 9 guards are killed by gunfire. The

remaining prisoners are brutalized for weeks after when the prison is retaken.

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Sep 17              In response to the Attica massacre, the Weather Underground bombs the offices of the

Commissioner of Corrections in Albany, New York.

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1972

                           Susan Atkins (Mason Girl) death sentence commuted to life

 

Apr 17              First antiwar protest of the year is conducted

The first major antiwar protest of 1972 is held. The demonstration, held at the University of Maryland, was organized to protest the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). Hundreds of students were arrested and 800 National Guardsmen were ordered onto the campus. Significant protests continued across the country in reaction to the increased bombing of North Vietnam, which had been initiated in response to the new communist offensive in South Vietnam.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-antiwar-protest-of-the-year-is-conducted

Dec                   In what becomes known as the Christmas Bombings, the U.S. Air Force carpet bombs Hanoi and other parts of Vietnam.

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1973

 

1974

Feb                    Nineteen year old Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the SLA or Symbionese Liberation                                 Army

 

May                  Angela Atwood, SLA or Symbionese Liberation member killed in shoot out with police

 

1975

 

1976

                           Josephine Bortin, SLA or Symbionese Liberation member, fled to Seattle

                           Los Angeles Grand Jury files a two count indicts Kathleen Ann Soliah a/k/a Sara Ann                                       Olsen for

                                          1         conspiring to murder a police officer

                                          2         possessing and attempting to detonate a destructive device

 

1977

 

1978

 

1979

 

1980

 

1981

                           Kathy Boudin turned herself in

                                          Of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)

           

Oct 20              bungled Brinks Armored Car robbery by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)

 

1982

 

1983

 

1984

                           Kathleen Ann Soliah (aka Sara Jane Olsen) earns restaurant skills certificate

                           Katherine Ann Powers was removed from the FBI’s most Wanted List

                           Kathy Boudin found guilty

                                          1 count 2nd degree murder

                                          1 count 1st degree robbery

                                          11 other charges

May 3               Kathy Boudin sentenced too, two 20 year to life terms

 

1985

 

1986

 

1987

 

1988

                           Joe Walsh performs for the Kent State Memorial

 

1989                

Kathleen Ann Soliah (aka Sara Jane Olsen) purchases a house with husband, Gerald Fred Peterson

 

Kathleen Ann Soliah (aka Sara Jane Olsen) tried to negotiate a surrender, but was unsuccessful

 

1990

 

1991

 

1992

 

1993

                           Katherine Ann Powers

                                          Surrenders

Pleads guilty to manslaughter in the 1970 State Street Bank and Trust robbery were Police Officer Walter Schoeder was killed

 

1994

 

1995

May 4               25 year anniversary of Kent State

 

1996

 

1997

May 4               27 year anniversary of Kent State

                           Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young perform

                                          Without ???

 

1998

 

1999

June 16            Wed at 8:30 , Kathleen Ann Soliah (aka Sara Jane Olsen) arrested in St Paul, Minnesota

 

July    14          Kathleen Ann Soliah (aka Sara Jane Olsen) pleas guilty to murder conspricy and explosive

                           charge  

 

Aug 31             Court proceedings begin in Los Angels for Kathleen Ann Soliah (aka Sara Jane Olsen)

                                     When did she get sentenced?

                                     What was the sentence

 

2000

 

2001

 

2002

 

2003

Aug 20             Kathy Boudin was released from prison, was sentenced in 1984

 

2004

 

2005

 

2006

 

2007

 

2008

Mar 18             Susan Atkins (Mason Girl) hospitalized in serious condition with brain tumor, according to her husband James Whitehead

 

June 8              Susan Atkins (Mason Girl) leg is amputated

 

2009

 

2010

 

2011

 

2012

 

2013

 

2014

 

2015

 

2016

 

2017

 

2018

 

2019

 

2020

 

2021

 

2022

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revised           

                           Thu Jun 29 2023

Wed Jun 21 2023

                           Thu Jun 15 2023

                           Tue Jun 13 2023

                           Tue Aug 2 2017

                           Sat Apr 15 2017

Tue  Jan 7, 2014          

Started             Sun Nov 6, 2011