The Wednesday Wars
1960s
Bar Mitzvah
Walter Cronkite
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Mickey Mantle (New York Yankees)
Joe Pepitone (New York Yankees)
Gary Schmidt
William Shakespeare
Vietnam War
- 1968: America's Tragic Year - Sirs Discover article *
- The Beatles (music)
- The Beatles (information)
- The Monkees
- Music - scroll to the bottom of the page to click and play songs from the 1960s.
- The Sixties - from PBS.
- Shock Year: 1968 - from PBS "American Experience." Click to see the timeline.
- The Sixties: The Decade that Changed America - Sirs Discover article*
Bar Mitzvah
Walter Cronkite
- Biographies from Biography In Context
- Museum of Broadcast Communications biography
- Video (announcing Martin Luther King's death)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
- Biographies from Biography In Context
- Inaugural Address from 1965 (video)
- LBJ for Kids - information from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
- POTUS Biography
- White House biography
Robert F. Kennedy
- Biographies from Biography In Context
- In Memory of Bobby - CBS news report. Includes 3 videos.
- Kennedy announces the death of Martin Luther King (video)
Mickey Mantle (New York Yankees)
- Baseball Library biography
- Biographies from Biography In Context
Joe Pepitone (New York Yankees)
- Baseball Library biography
- Biography from Biography In Context
Gary Schmidt
- Article from Calvin's Spark
- Biographies from Biography In Context
William Shakespeare
- Biography from PBS
- Biography from Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Plays (as the stories might be reported in imaginary newspapers)
Vietnam War
- Interactive Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
- The Price of Freedom: Americans at War - click on "Vietnam War"
- Vietnam Online - from PBS's The American Experience
- Vietnam: The War that's Still With Us - a summary of the war's history and lasting impact on America.