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1984 Walter Mondale

Monday, September 1st, 2008

May 25, 1984 So I was wrong about Walter Mondale. He did come to San Luis Obispo. Once. Mondale came to town at the request of the anti-Nuclear group Mothers for Peace, the only candidate of three invited to show up. Quoting the story by staff writer Alan Mittelstaedt: The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant ...

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1968 Robert F. Kennedy assassination

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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