Belle Plaine High School - Tigerian Yearbook (Belle Plaine, MN)

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 Democratic Victor — President Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 election by the greatest plurality and per cent of the total vole in U. S. history. Johnson became President at the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Harry’s Hattie for Votes-Sen. Barry Goldwater was surrounded by fans at Knoxville. Tenn., air- port Septem her 16 as he campaigned for the presidency on the Republican ticket. The con- servative senator swept to a first-ballot nomina- tion at the convention in San Francisco. National Events in Review—1964 Nobel Prize Winner— Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., right, was greeted by Richard C. Patterson, commissioner of public events, at Kennedy International Air- port Dec. 16 on arrival from Europe . Dr. King was in Oslo to receive the 196-1 Nobel Peace Prize. are the Winners-Roger Craig leaped on a group nmates surrounding the pitcher Bob Gibson mo- after the last out in the seventh World Series von by the Redbirds over the Yankees. 7-5, in St. Pm the Greatest—Cassius Clay whooped it up with his handlers after he won the world heavyweight title in Miami Beach in February. He was credited with a tech- nical knockout of Sonny Liston when Lis- ton failed to answer the bell for the sev- enth round. Alaskan Quake-A whole line of cars rest- ed iaIk ut 20 feet below street level on a main thoroughfare in Anchorage the day folUiwing the disastrous earthquake on M«tch 27.;