This page commemorates the 30th anniversary of 1968.

1968 was a pivotal year:

for the country

• assassination of Robert Kennedy.
• assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
  
• the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

and for me.

• High School graduation.
• enrollment at Stephen F. Austin State College.
• my moving to Nacogdoches.

Other significant events of 1968:

• 1st publication of the Whole Earth Catalog.
• 1st staging of the Special Olympics.
• Release (from the Hollywood of the rust belt) of George Romero's classic: Night of the Living Dead.
• 1st use of the 911 Emergency Response System.
• Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper published Aerobics
• Encyclopaedia Britannica's 200th anniversary.
• George Foreman (from "just up the road" in Marshall, Texas) winning the gold medal in boxing at the Olympic Games

Last modified 7/5/2005