The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 December 1968 — Page 7

Thursday, December 19, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 7

KENNEDY ASSASSINATION—Sen. Robert Kennedy lies mortally wounded in a Los Angeles hotel in June, second assassination that aroused the nation. He was making headway toward Democratic presidential nomination.

“PROFESSIONAL” troublemakers topped the yearlong succession of demonstrations civil rights and anti-war—with bloody melees like this at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August. Police were accused of brutality in quelling planned outbreaks.

KING ASSASSINATION—Aides stand over mortally shot body of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April and signal to police the direction from which bullets came in Memphis, Tenn., in this Tintb-copyrighted photo. It was the first of two assassinations which shook the nation to anger and civil rights outbreaks.

SOVIET INVASION—A Czech youth climbing aboard a Soviet tank in Prague symbolizes Czechoslovakia’s futile resistance to the Warsaw Pact invasion in August. Communist Czech government too liberal, said the Kremlin masters.

PUEBLO SEIZURE—In January the North Korean Communists seized the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo and crew off their shore, and later served up this photo of it at anchor at Wonsan. It’s a headache Nixon administration inherits.

WELL, NOW!—The unheralded romance between Jacqueline Kennedy and multi-millionaire Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis was climaxed by their marriage on his private island off Greece in October. Here they leave the chapel after the Creek Orthodox nuptials.

TAKES HEART—Dr. Philip Blaiberg in January, becoming the world’s first successful heart transplant. Cape Town, South Africa.

TURNED DOWN—Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas leaves a Senate hearing in Washington prior to becoming the second man in history turned down for Chief Justice of the U.S.

78 MINERS ENTOMBED—The scene in West Virginia as explosions and fire entombed 78 miners in late November.

TRANSITION—President-elect Nixon and President Johnson shake hands warmly in the White House at Nixon's November visit to confer on transfer of government. Republicans also gained in the Senate. House and statehouses.

99 MEN LOST—The sub Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic in May with loss of 99 lives. It is believed 10,000 feet down 400 miles SW of the Azores.

LEADING TO THE MOON—Bearded Apollo 7 astronauts Walter Schirra (left), Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham on carrier Essex in October after their 11 days of orbiting leading to the Apollo 8 flight to orbit around the Moon.

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