<Li> 1968 Adoption of Federal Flag Desecration Law (18 U.S.C. 700 et seq .)--Congress approved the first federal flag desecration law in the wake of a highly publicized Central Park flag burning incident in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War . The federal law made it illegal to "knowingly" cast "contempt" upon "any flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling upon it ." The law defined flag in an expansive manner similar to most States . </Li> <Li> 1969 July 20--Astronauts Neil Armstrong with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Apollo 11 places the American flag on the Moon at "Tranquillity Base". </Li> <Li> 1969 Street v. New York (394 U.S. 576)--The Supreme Court held that New York State could not convict a person based on his verbal remarks disparaging the flag . Street was arrested after he learned of the shooting of civil rights leader James Meredith and reacted by burning his own flag and exclaiming to a small crowd that if the government could allow Meredith to be killed, "we don't need no damn flag ." The Court avoided deciding whether flag burning was protected by the First Amendment, and instead overturned the conviction based on Street's oral remarks . In Street, the Court found there was not a sufficient governmental interest to warrant regulating verbal criticism of the flag . </Li> <Li> 1972 Smith v. Goguen (415 U.S. 94)--The Supreme Court held that Massachusetts could not prosecute a person for wearing a small cloth replica of the flag on the seat of his pants based on a State law making it a crime to publicly treat the flag of the United States with "contempt". The Massachusetts statute was held to be unconstitutionally "void for vagueness ." </Li>

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