Griffin Daily News
1968 IN GRAPHIC REVIEW
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IN A PHOTO FINISH, Republicans Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew were elected president and vice
president. What promised to be an uninteresting election year brought many surprises, such as the drop
out of LBJ from the presidential race, a Democratic convention marred by riots and violence, a last
minute push that almost carried Hubert Humphrey to victory and the astounding Nixon comeback.
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STUDENT PROTESTS swept campuses here and abroad;
in Paris, expanded to a mini-revolution. In photo above,
Mark Rudd. 21-year-old student leader, exhorts a crowd on
campus of New York City’s Columbia University.
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ASSASSINATION of prominent Americans Dr. Martin Lu
ther King and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy stunned supporters
and critics alike. James Earl Ray, upper right, is accused
in the King slaying and awaits trial in Memphis. Sirhan B.
Sirhan, lower left, is charged with the RFK murder.
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Friday, December 27, 1968
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WEDDING OF THE YEAR took world by surprise. Jac
queline Kennedy, 39, married Aristotle Onassis, 62, on his
private island off the coast of Greece. Here, they leave
chapel for a reception aboard Onassis’ luxurious yacht.
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RUSSIAN TANKS rolled into Prague as the Soviet Union and four allied satel
lite nations invaded Czechoslovakia and seized control of the government.
Czech citizens defied Moscow in acts of passive resistance. Invasion prompted
second thoughts by NATO nations losing interest in the organization.
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VIETNAM WAR, heretofore limited for the most part to rural areas, exploded in the
cities with the Tet offensive early in the year. After fierce fighting in Hue, above, and
Saigon, Communist forces were driven back with heavy casualties on both sides. Peace
talks were begun in Paris, but war’s end seemed a long way off to observers.
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RESURRECTION CITY, a community of tents and plywood
buildings, rose alongside Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.,
after a Poor People’s March led by the Rev. Ralph Abernathy,
head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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AMERICAN PRESTIGE hit a low when North Korean naval force
of patrol boats seized the USS Pueblo, an intelligence ship operat
ing in the Sea of Japan. As MIG fighters circled overhead, the
Pueblo was forced by Communists to put into port of Wonsan.
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CHICAGO was not a town for toddlers during the Democratic National Convention.,
While delegates cheered, made speeches and marched in the aisles of the convention
hall, police and demonstrators mixed it up outside in a shocking display that brought
strong criticism of Mayor Daley and his methods of controlling, the city.
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HEARTS were in—and out—as transplants were
conducted around the world. Here Dr. Philip Blai
berg, longest living human heart recipient, leaves
Cape Town, South Africa, hospital with his wife.
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APOLLO 7, America’s first manned spaceshot in
nearly two years, was termed flawless, opening
way for manned lunar orbit. Photo shows ex
pended Saturn IVB as seen from spacecraft.
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HEMISFAIR—this year’s world’s
fair—was held in San Antonio,
Tex. Here are the Peacock Foun
tain and Tower of the Americas.
