Muscoda High School - Muscodian Yearbook (Muscoda, WI)

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 f Drmocrntic 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 K. Kennedy in 1963. Harry's Hattie for Votes—Sen. Barry Goldwater was surrounded by fans at Knoxville, Tcnn., 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. National Events in Review—1964 I’m the Greatest—Cassius Clay whooped it up with his handlers after he won the Zards are the Winner»— Roger Craig leaped on a group world heavyweight title in Miami Beach f teammates surrounding the pitcher Bob Cibson mo- in February. He was credited with a tech- nents after the last out in the seventh World Series nical knockout of Sonny Uston when Lis- pmr won by the Redbirdi over the Yankees, 7-5, in St. ton failed to answer the bell for the sev- .ouis. enth round. 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. . Ik