Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 268-Closing U.S. military forces enter Cambodia. Students protest. Riots erupt on college campuses, and four students at Kent State University in Ohio killed by National Guardsmen. Hurricane Celia strikes Corpus Christi on August 3. Miraculously, only 11 people die, but 466 are injured and insured property losses total more than S500 million. 18-year-olds receive right to vote in federal elections. South Vietnam troops, backed by Americans, invade Southern Laos. LBJ Library Complex on campus of University of Texas dedicated at cost of 318.6 million. U.S. Post Office replaced by semi-independent U.S. Postal Service. President Nixon visits Communist China. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace shot and paralyzed while campaigning in Maryland for Democratic presidential nomination. President Nixon becomes first U.S. president to visit Moscow. Watergate scandal begins when unauthorized persons are caught in Democratic National Headquarters in Washington. Arab terrorists kill 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich, Germany. President Nixon defeats Democrat George McGovern by an overwhelming majority. Channel 16, public sponsored station, begins broadcasting in Corpus Christi. Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl. Cost of living jumps after U.S. sells wheat and other grains to Soviet Union. Watergate scandal spreads. Lyndon B. Johnson dies at ranch in Johnson City. U.S. troops withdrawn from South Vietnam, and North Vietnam and Viet Cong release prisoners. Many men still MlAs CMissing in Actionj. U.S. Skylab 2 takes longest manned space flight, 59 days. Spiro T. Agnew resigns vice presidency, pleading no contest to charges of tax evasion. Texas makes 18-year-olds instant adults. Previously Baptist University of Corpus Christi becomes state-supported, upper level Texas A8zI - CC. Energy crisis follows Arab oil boycott. Small cars grow popular and alternate energy sources sought as oil prices skyrocket. Alaskan pipeline construction permitted after environmental lawsuits. Hank Aaron of Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record with his 715th homer. Soviet Union deports writer Alexander Solzhenitsen after his book Gulag Archipelago published criticizing Soviet penal system. Watergate hearings bring resignation of Richard Nixon as president of United States. Gerald Ford, appointed vice president earlier under 25th Amendment, sworn in as president. President Ford grants full pardon to Richard Nixon for any acts he may have committed as president. Court-ordered busing for school integration brings violence and school boycott in Boston, Mass. sw...:'f': 1 . . 1-' a a.: MSM , .H , .. . A ., ...Mp ,M , . 2 m . . - - -- at .,,, i Q - . A 5. 2--1. I . ' 1

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1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 196 Office of Economic Opportunity opens as part of President J ohnson's War on Poverty. Poll tax amendment forbidding use of poll or other tax to qualify voters in federal elections ratified. President Johnson wins presidential election by greatest popular vote landslide in history. Surgeon-general's report Smoking and Health links cancer and other diseases with smoking. Six days of riots in Watts ghetto of Los Angeles result in 35 deaths, 4,000 arrests and 340 million in property damage. American involvement in South Vietnam jumps. First Russians, then Americans, walk in space. U.S. Mariner 4 sends pictures of Mars back to earth. Corpus Christi becomes a convention center. Spoil Islands formed in Corpus Christi Bay after ship channel is dredged out. Medicare provides doctors' care and hospitalization for aged through Social Security. Surveyor I, unmanned U.S. spacecraft, lands on the moon. Justice Thurgood Marshall sworn in October 2, becoming first black to serve on U.S. Supreme Court. Troop buildup in Vietnam continues. Jack Ruby, convicted of murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of cancer. Civil Rights Act of 1967 passed. 25th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for succession to presidency, ratified. World's first human heart transplant succeeds, in Cape Town, South Africa. Hurricane Beulah strikes Caribbean Islands, Mexico and South Texas, bringing hundreds of tornadoes and record flooding to area. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy assassinated after a speech celebrating his victory in California presidential primary. Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. North Korean Communists board U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo and capture crewmen. One killed, and others held prisoner for 11 months. Vice President Hubert Humphrey visits Corpus Christi in campaign for Democratic presidential nomination. Martin Luther King Memorial voted in Corpus Christi. Humphrey wins nomination but loses election to Republican Richard Nixon. 9 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become first men on the moon, while Michael Collins mans command module. Hundreds of thousands of youths set the model for future rock concerts at Woodstock, N.Y. Hurricane Camille enters the Gulf of Mexico and devastates the Louisiana-Mississippi coast. Anti-Vietnam war rally at Cole Park, sponsored by C.C. Moratorium Committee, draws 200. Longhorns of University of Texas win national championship in Centennial year of NCAA football. Closing

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