In a single five week period in the summer of 1969, three American astronauts landed on the moon; more than a hundred thousand hippies grooved at Woodstock: Charles Manson's 'family' terrorised Los Angeles; and the scion of America's most celebrated modern political dynasty, Senator Edward Kennedy, found himself embroiled in a scandal in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. Here is the full story of this remarkable year, in first hand accounts by those who were there; from Beatles' last rooftop jam in London to the trial of the 'Chicago 7' to the shocking revelation of U.S. military brutality in My Lai, South Vietnam - and all points in between.