Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Memorial services were held at Mission San Luis Obispo and in Oceano following the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.Telegram-Tribune photos by Barry MinettJune 5-10 1968A scant two months earlier the nation had been rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and the urban violence that followed.Now the nightmare would ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
November 22, 1963As promised in the last post, here is coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination. There are no local photos but the mythology that has since surrounded the event makes real time coverage interesting reading. Click on the newspaper pages to view a larger image.
There were trivial stories, ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
MOURNERS FOR KING AT CITY PARK MEMORIAL
More than 700 attended San Luis Obispo service.
April 7, 1968
For the second time in five years the nation was shocked by the assassination of a national leader. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy was slain in Dallas.
On the afternoon of April 4, ...
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