Crisis Timeline

Historical events correlated with documents in the archive. Click any event to see matching documents.

War Assassination Human Experimentation Intelligence Military Nuclear Scandal Oversight Terrorism Legislation Surveillance Pandemic Insurrection

1865

Civil War End / Reconstruction

Apr 9, 1865 — Mar 31, 1877

War 31 docs

Avg relevance 51.0%

1865

Lincoln Assassination

Apr 14, 1865 — Jul 7, 1865

Assassination 21 docs

Avg relevance 58.6%

1953

MKUltra Program

Apr 13, 1953 — Jan 1, 1973

Human Experimentation 2,612 docs

Avg relevance 64.3%

1955

Area 51 / U-2 Program

Jan 1, 1955 — Dec 31, 1998

Intelligence 41,105 docs

Avg relevance 51.3%

1961

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Apr 17, 1961 — Apr 20, 1961

Military 1,656 docs

Avg relevance 25.3%

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 16, 1962 — Oct 28, 1962

Nuclear 2,263 docs

Avg relevance 28.2%

1963

JFK Assassination

Nov 22, 1963 — Sep 24, 1964

Assassination 36,070 docs

Avg relevance 40.3%

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Aug 2, 1964 — Aug 7, 1964

Military 40 docs

Avg relevance 32.5%

1968

MLK Assassination

Apr 4, 1968

Assassination 36,024 docs

Avg relevance 22.8%

1968

RFK Assassination

Jun 5, 1968 — Jun 6, 1968

Assassination 36,021 docs

Avg relevance 25.6%

1972

Watergate Scandal

Jun 17, 1972 — Aug 9, 1974

Scandal 382 docs

Avg relevance 49.4%

1975

Church Committee Investigations

Jan 27, 1975 — Apr 29, 1976

Oversight 38,206 docs

Avg relevance 27.7%

1978

CIA Stargate / Remote Viewing Program

Jan 1, 1978 — Jun 30, 1995

Intelligence 24,522 docs

Avg relevance 64.0%

1985

Iran-Contra Affair

Aug 1, 1985 — Nov 18, 1987

Scandal 10,002 docs

Avg relevance 47.8%

2001

September 11 Attacks

Sep 11, 2001 — Dec 31, 2001

Terrorism 10,373 docs

Avg relevance 31.6%

2001

PATRIOT Act Passage

Oct 26, 2001

Legislation 10,330 docs

Avg relevance 25.2%

2002

Iraq War Authorization

Oct 10, 2002 — May 1, 2003

Military 1,101 docs

Avg relevance 28.0%

2013

Snowden NSA Revelations

Jun 5, 2013 — Dec 31, 2013

Surveillance 9,209 docs

Avg relevance 30.7%

2020

COVID-19 Pandemic

Jan 20, 2020 — May 11, 2023

Pandemic 24,630 docs

Avg relevance 42.2%

2021

January 6 Capitol Attack

Jan 6, 2021 — Dec 22, 2022

Insurrection 12,026 docs

Avg relevance 51.7%