Mayetta Rural High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Mayetta, KS)

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 National Events Democratic Victor — President Lyndon Johnson won (he 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. Harry’s Hattie for Votes—Sen. Barry Gold water 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. 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 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. I’m the Greatest—Cassius Clay whooped it up with his handlers after he won the the ( laig leaped on .« group world hcav weight ntl m Miami Heath mmSHo suiic)i j(n tuX|dtcherSBoh Gibson mo- in February He was credited with a tech- afTTrMjjc last ViiP n rl N|c eiitK W orld Serie» mul knockout of SODB} Liston when Lis won b tlTK ctll)Wds »er nit ank KS. 7-5, in St. ton failed to answer the bell for the sev- enth round.