110-106: What Hath God Wrought
110: President Johnson signs The Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law abolishing racial segregation
109: Samuel Morse demonstrates electric telegraphy for the first time. Six years later in 1844 – “What hath God wrought” Samuel Morse sends his first telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore ft. Curator of Electricity Collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Hal Wallace.
108: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail ft. Chair of the Center for the American Dream at the America First Policy Institute, Dr. Alveda King.
107: Vietnam War: Two US destroyers come under fire in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Johnson expands the war effort based upon this incident.
106: The New York Stock Exchange nosedives nearly taking out the American economy. It is given a reprieve by a group of investors led by J.P. Morgan who pool $25M to invest.
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