This was the year that most us that are capable of remembering will never forget. It started with Benjamin Spock,M.D. and four others are indicted for aiding and abetting draft dodgers. Who can forget the picture of the South Vietnamese chief of police executing a vietcong prisoner.Figure skater Peggy Fleming wins the on US gold medal at the winter olympics. A police station in Haleyville, Alabama is the first to officially use 911, the nations universal emergency umber.
The Reverend Martin Luther Kingm, Jr. is murdered in Memphis, TN. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection.
The first modern cash-dispensing machine--the ATM--is invented in Dallas.The first regular season basketball game ever televised, University of Houston vs UCLA. Elvin Hayes (the big E) vs Lew Alcendor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), it drew 52,000, dubbed the Gaame of the Century. The rest is history.
"Exercise after 40? Build bone and muscle after 40. What re you trying to do kill people?" This was the reaction of to Dr. Kenneth Cooper's book on Aerobics" These are just a few of the happening in 1968.
I could also take take a cab from the "why not pub to the Hub" for 6.00.
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