"Old times there are not forgotten"
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35-10 in Super Bowl I. Troop build up in Vietnam continued, casualty rates increased and protests against American involvement there continued. For the first time, counter demonstrations in favor of American military involvement in Vietnam were organized. Appropriations were made by the Congress for increased Social Security benefits, education and antipoverty programs but it was the defense appropration that increased faster and higher than would have previously been thought possible. A lottery system was implemented by Selective Service to conscript elgible American males into military service. Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Lester Maddox, a restaurant owner who had made public demonstrations against racial integration was sworn is as governor of Georgia. New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell was denied his seat in the 90th Congress due to misuse of government funds. The United States experienced the worst racial riots in its history following the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee. The American space program made three successful soft landings on the moon and Mariner 5 sent back data about the asmosphere of Venus.New book titles: The Arrangement, Death of a President, Tales of Manhattan, The Chosen and Rosemary's Baby.At the movies: Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night and The Whisperers.On stage: The Homecoming, I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.Television premiers: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Carol Brunette Show.Popular music: Up, Up and Away, By the Time I get to Phoenix, Ode to Bille Joe and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.January 27
A launch pad fire at Cape Kennedy, Florida took the lives of astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White, II and Roger B. Chaffee during Apollo testing.February 10
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for presidential succession took effect.March 25
Woodrow Wilson High School won the school's ninth state basketball championship by defeating Charleston High School by the score of 75-69 in Morgantown.December 15
The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River linking Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Kanauga, Ohio collapsed resulting in the deaths of 46 people.December 30
Classmate Bill Rose received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, majoring in Accounting from West Virginia Institute of Technology.