In December 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed to order the Georgia Legislature to allow civil rights worker and antiwar activist Julian Bond to take the seat in the State House of Representatives that he had won in 1965. The Court ruled that legislature had violated Bond's First Amendment rights when it denied him the seat because of his opposition to the Vietnam War.
In February 1965 Robert Collier, Michelle Duclos, Walter Bowe, and Khaleel Sayyed members of the Black Liberation Front were arrested for conspiracy to destroy government property. They had planned to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, and the Liberty Bell.
On 20 October 1969 Republican Senator Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois became the first senator to act in a movie when The Monitors, a political satire featuring Ed Begley and Kennan Wynn, was released.
In October 1963 former president Dwight D. Eisenhower .....
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