1964 September. The Warren Commission findings are made public. Oswald is declared the lone assassin with the magic-bullet explanation being the key.
1967 Martin Luther King delivers his Riverside Church speech -- "A Time to Break Silence" -- denouncing the Vietnam War and calling for opposition to it, while linking it to social and economic oppression at home.
1968 April 4. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis. The authorities blame it on James Earl Ray, a petty criminal loner.
1968 On June 6 in Los Angeles, Senator Robert Kennedy, on the cusp of becoming the Democratic nominee for president, is assassinated. The accused lone assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was standing in front and to the left of RFK. The autopsy shows Kennedy was killed by a bullet from behind and below that entered his head behind his right ear. Sirhan is subsequently convicted as the lone crazed gunman, despite many witnesses seeing a girl in a polka-dot dress with a male companion, running down the back stairs of the hotel, shouting. "We shot him! We shot him! We shot Senator Kennedy."
1972 June 17. Five CIA employees and veterans of the Bay of Pigs operation are arrested inside the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee. Together with H. Howard Hunt (CIA) and G. Gordon Liddy, they are later indicted. The burglars are caught by a security guard who notices that these skilled undercover operatives have taped locks open from the outside so that the tape is showing.
The Watergate story is primarily reported by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who work at the Washington Post under Editor Ben Bradlee. Woodward had earlier served in Naval Intelligence, as had Bradlee, while Bradlee and the Washington Post have deep ties to the CIA and intelligence communities.
1974 August 9. Nixon is forced to resign. He is the second president in eleven years to be removed from office. Gerald Ford, a former member of the Warren Commission, assumes the presidency. Dick Cheney is named White House Chief of staff and Donald Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense.
1976 January 30. Having been nominated by Ford, George H.W. Bush assumes the Directorship of the CIA, despite critics arguing that he has no intelligence experience. He serves in that capacity for 357 days.
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