Verndale High School 1965 Yearbook (Verndale, MN) - Guest Access

Dnnocrnlic Victor- President L) mlon Johnson won the 1964 election b the grl·ate t pluralit and per cent of the total \Ole in ' S. histon . Johmon became Prl·sident at the a ·a ination o[ John f'. Kennedy in 1963. Bnny's Bnttle for T'otes- en. Barr Goldwater was surrounded b fans at Kno:·nille, Tenn., air– port eptember 16 as he campaigned [or the pre idency on the Republican ticket. The con- ervative enator swept to a first-ballot nomina– tion at the convention in an Franci co. National Events in Review-1964 :nrds m·e the ll'inner -Roger Craig leaped on a group f teammate surrounding the pitcher Bob Gibson mo- 1ent after the last out in the seventh 'Norld cries amc won b) the Redbirds over the Yankees, 7-5, in t. .ouis. I'm the Grentest- assius lay whooped it up with his handlers after he won the world heavpveight till • in liami Beach in February. He was credited with a tech– nical knockout o[ Sonn Liston when Lis– ton failed to answn the bell for the sev– enth round . A lnsknn Qunkt•-A whole line of cars rest– ed about 20 fct•t below street lc\ cl on a main thoroughfate in Anchorage the da) following the disa trous earthquake on March 27. o/Jel Priu ll'illJIC'I"-Dr. \fartin Luther King, Jr., light, was greeted b} Richard C. Patterson, commissioner o[ public e\ents, at Kennedy International Air– port Dec. 16 on arri\ al [rom Europt•. Dr. King was in Oslo to recei\e the 1961 :'\obcl Peace Prize.