Wasn't alive during the sixties, but have studied it intensively during history courses...
A few things that (IMHO) are important when studying the 60's...
-Vatican II
-Cuban Missile Crisis
-Assassination of JFK
-Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Escalation in Vietnam
-Humanae Vitae (On Human Life; encyclical by Pope Paul VI)
-Tet Offensive, effect on American public
-Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.
-Woodstock
-John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon by a margin of 100,000 fraudulant votes.
-Barry Goldwater launches the modern conservative movement with his nomination as the GOP's presidential candidate in 1964.
-More men volunteered to serve in Vietnam than went to jail or Canada.
-Decades before Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, Joe Pyne got big ratings as a nationally syndicated confrontational talk-show host, taking on the likes of Black Panthers, cult leaders and assorted weirdos of the day.