The first "teach-in" is conducted at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; two hundred faculty members participate by holding special anti-war seminars. Regular classes were canceled, and rallies and speeches dominated for 12 hours. On March 26, there was a similar teach-in at Columbia University in New York City; this form of protest eventually spread to many colleges and universities.
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Mar 24, 1965:
First teach-in conducted
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This Week in History, Mar 24 - Mar 30
- Mar 24, 1965
- First teach-in conducted
- Mar 24, 1975
- North Vietnamese launch "Ho Chi Minh Campaign"
- Mar 25, 1967
- Martin Luther King leads march against the war
- Mar 25, 1968
- Johnson meets with the "Wise Men"
- Mar 26, 1969
- Antiwar demonstration in Washington
- Mar 26, 1975
- Hue falls to the communists
- Mar 27, 1965
- South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia
- Mar 27, 1973
- Bombing of Cambodia to continue
- Mar 28, 1961
- Diem's popular support questioned
- Mar 28, 1967
- American pacifists arrive in Haiphong
- Mar 29, 1971
- Calley found guilty of My Lai murders
- Mar 29, 1973
- Last U.S. troops depart South Vietnam
- Mar 30, 1965
- Bomb explodes outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon
- Mar 30, 1972
- North Vietnamese launch Nguyen Hue Offensive
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