Emmetsburg Catholic School - Echo Yearbook (Emmetsburg, IA)

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fc the Wmners Roger Craig leaped on a group nates surrounding the pitcher Bob Gibson mo aftei the last out in the seventh World Series won b the Redbirds over the Yankees 7 5 in St IE Democratic Victor-President Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 election by the greatest plurality and per cent of the total vote in U. S. history. johnson became President at the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Barryfs Battle for Votes-Sen. Barry Goldwater was surrounded by fans at Knoxville, Tenn., air- port September 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. atzonal Events in Review-1964 I'm 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 about 20 feet below street level on a main thoroughfare in Anchorage the day following the disastrous earthquake on March 27. 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 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.

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THE ECHO EMMETSBURG CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 1965