1975
Jan 1

President Ford Signs Privacy Act

Jan 1

Top Nixon Administration Officials Convicted of Watergate Conspiracy

Jan 2

Walter Washington Sworn in as First Popularly Elected Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Jan 3

Japanese-American Internment Victim Elected to Congress

Jan 4

Native-American Tribal Self-Determination Reaffirmed

Jan 4

President Ford Appoints Rockefeller Commission to Investigate CIA Abuses

Jan 9

President Ford Creates National Commission for International Women’s Year

Jan 14

Edward Levi Named Attorney General – Will Chart Independent Course

Jan 14

HUAC Abolished; 37 Years of Civil Liberties Violations Finally Ends

Jan 21

Women Cannot be Excluded From Jury Duty: “Taylor v. Louisiana”

Jan 27

Edward Levi Promises to be Independent U.S. Attorney General

Jan 27

Senate Creates Church Committee to Investigate Abuses by Intelligence Agencies

Feb 6

Government Spying “Almost Beyond Control,” Charge Two ACLU Lawyers

Feb 19

House Creates Pike Committee to Investigate Abuses by the CIA, other Agencies

Feb 21

AG Mitchell, Nixon Aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman Sentenced to Prison for Watergate Crimes

Mar 6

Leonard Matlovich Comes Out; Is Dismissed from the Air Force For Being Gay

Mar 19

Supreme Court Strikes Down Sex Discrimination in Social Security Benefits

Mar 25

First Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.?

Apr 28

Daniel Schorr Reveals CIA Assassination Plots on National TV

May 2

Eighteen Years Late, Blacklisted Dalton Trumbo Receives His Oscar

May 7

Betty Ford Takes Credit for a Woman in President Ford’s Cabinet

May 26

President Ford Puts Foot in Mouth on “Brown”

Jun 8

Attorney General Levi: Presidents Have No Authority to Order Assassinations

Jun 26

You Can’t Detain Non-Dangerous Mentally Ill People: “O’Connor v. Donaldson”

Jul 1

David Saxon, Fired For Not Signing Loyalty Oath in 1950, Becomes President of University of California

Jul 14

FBI Director Admits to History of Illegal “Black Bag” (Burglary) Jobs

Jul 18

Senator Church Calls CIA “Rogue Elephant”

Aug 4

NJ Supreme Court Rules Non-Dangerous Criminally Insane Cannot be Detained

Aug 31

Long Island Communities Fight “Groupers,” Limit Number of Unrelated Individuals in Households

Sep 24

CIA Spy Chief: “Certain Individual Rights Have to be Sacrificed for the National Security”

Oct 7

John Lennon Can Stay in U.S. – Court Ends Government Deportation Effort

Oct 22

Nebraska Judge Bars Press Coverage – Overruled by Supreme Court

Oct 29

First Time Ever: Head of National Security Agency (NSA) Testifies Before Congress

Nov 12

William O. Douglas Resigns from Supreme Court

Dec 2

Former FBI Undercover Agent Testifies About Infiltration, Illegal Actions Against Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)

Dec 19

John Paul Stevens Joins Supreme Court

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