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
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2018
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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