Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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1. Tl ME-LIFE-john Olson After the North Vietnamese were beaten back at Hue during Tet, a marine tank carried off the dead and wounded. In the past twenty years different minority groups have worked and fought for their rights. This is lauren Watson addressing students in 1969. Many anti-war protests were broken up by city officals. Even though these and many other reforms have drastically changed our lives, history will probably remember the post-World War II era in a bad light. The Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis will be remembered as threats to democ- racy. The assassinations of john and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King,jr. will be recalled as breakdowns in moral integrity as well as police security. The anti-Vietnam protests and the generation gap will show the udisrespectv of our generation toward the family and govern- ment. And finally, the Watergate and Intelli- gence Service scandals will be remembered to have shown that our government can be corrupt. Although most people look at theifaults and the mistakes this country has made in the past, with the progress we have made, our system of government cannot be all bad. It is also impor- tant to realize that the opinion that our country would not survive has been proved wrong. We have shown that a republic can be a success.

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The landing of man on the moon in 1969 has been one of the most important events in this century. Although at the end of World War ll much of Europe was concerned with rebuilding its destruction, the United States was busy improv- ing everyday life. The barriers between the races began to be eliminated when jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team in 1947. Barriers were further downed in 1955 when Dr. Martin Luther King,jr. led a boycott against the city bus company in Montgomery, Alabama. This began a decade of nonviolent protest that led to the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Improvement in life also came about in the health field with such discoveries as-a vaccine against polio in 1954. . 4 4 A . ' Aa -, ..Wf:0-ef' my .'.,'.c '1 4... . ., by A'. niggas? tr-QM- Q A . TW: . 19-HJ A ' A --of ',,,.. . -0- iffy.-QV, . ' N fu-'fe' ,Q ' K -WSW -Q -' s'::.-v,4x-. sg, ss' ,. :1:' Xi ffftf- .c -Q A my ,, my U S A lf Dana Hell xg? -. was-I ASQ -' l'f S We were all involved in the death of john Kennedy . . . we mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation. -Martin Luther King,jr. 1945-1975 The development of nuclear power caused the greatest change in international diplomacy since World War II.

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The Great merican Although Cherry Creek usually has no water, this is the view on Iarimer Street the day after the flood of 1864. -W The Ute Indians lived in both brush arbors and teepees, The history of the Centennial state began much like that of the United States, with discov- ery, Indian conquests, and then development. The three major groups of Indians that the Wliite man dislocated', from Colorado were the Southern Cheyennes the Southern Arapahoes, A between these tribes and the White settlers con- tinued throughout Colorado until the 1880 s cli- maxed with the deaths of 15 White men at the Present day Colorado was first explored by iilllllll 6 Americans when Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike conducted the expedition into the southwestern area of the newly purchased Louisiana Territory in 1806. The only two apparent uses for the new land were farming and trading. The first possibility was ruled out by the lack of water, an element that was to plague the development of the state until the present time. The second was the basis for the first settlement in the state, in 1845, named El Pueblo, near Lajunta. These Ute Indians came to Denver for talks with government officials after the Meeker Massacre in 1879,