Beemer High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Beemer, NE)

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An eventful year to remember. . . President Richard Nixon strikes campaign sock it to 'em pose with comedv team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin 2 Back-dmng Dick Fosbury sets high tump record in the Olympics J Pro-fool hall player Rosie Greer helps subdue assassin Sirhan. protecting him from angry crowd, after Sen Robert Kennedy is shot Months earlier. Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated 4 Disillusion begins to wither the ranks of hippies as the self- styled love generation'' is degraded by drugs and disease 5 Mist America 1969 is Judith Anne Ford from the state of Illinois 6 A histone space venture was the moon-orbit flight of Apollo 8 bi astronauts James Lovell. William Anders, and Frank Borman 7 The nar in Vietnam against international communism became the longest conflict ever fought by United States military forces 8 Mankind marveled as more than 75 heart transplants were per- formed Hope also rose for the development of a mechanical heart 9 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. 59. widoh of President John F Ken- nedy. weds Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis. 62 10 Copt Lloxd Bucher and his 82-man crew of the captured USS Pueblo were free after months of brutal internment in North Korea 11 The striking teachers' union disrupted the fall term opening of New York City's public school system 12 Al Kaline swung a big bat as the Detroit Tigers came from be- hind to defeat the St Louts Cardinals in World Series plai 15 Wearing their national colors. Czechs protested in vain when Russia invaded to suppress a liberal-minded government Picture credits U S Nav and UP!