Smithville High School - Brave Yearbook (Smithville, OK)

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t. 1«. An eventful year to remember. . . President Richard Nixon strikes campaign sock it to 'em'' pose with corned team of Pan Ron an and Dick Martin 2 Back-diving Dick Fosbury sets high tump record in the Olympus 3 Pro-football placer Rosie Greer helps subdue assassin Sirhan. protecting him from angry crowd, after Sen Robert Kennedy is shot Months earlier. Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated 4 Disillusion begins to wither the ranks of hippies as the self- styled love generation' u degraded by drugs and disease 5 Miss America 1969 is Judith Anne Ford from the state of Illinois 6 A historic spoce venture was the moon-orbit flight of Apollo h by astronauts James Lovell. William Anders, and Frank Borman 7 The war in Vietnam against international communism became the longest conflict ever fought by United States military forces H Mankind marveled as more than 75 heart transplants were per- formed Hope also rose for the development of a mechanical heart 9 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. 39. widow of President John F Ken- nedy. weds Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis. 62 10 Copt Lloyd Bucher and his 112-man crew of the captured L SS Pueblo were free after months of brutal internment in North Korea 11 The striking teachers union disrupted the fall term opening of New York City's public school system 12 AI Kaline swung a big bat as the Detroit Tigers came from be- hind to defeat the St Louis Cardinals in World Senes play IS Wearing their national colors. Czechs protested in vain when Russia invaded to suppress a liberal-minded government Picture credits U S Navy and L PI