Monday, August 18th, 2008
Mrs. B.L. Durham, San Luis Obispo County Draft Board clerk, checks 109 draftees aboard a Greyhound special for their physicals in Los Angeles.January 26, 1966Bring up the subject of a draft today and people will think you are talking about the NFL or trying to sell caulk.At the downtown bus ...
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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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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Senior mathematics student David Brown speaks to a crowd protesting napalm in front of the Cal Poly administration building.
February 1, 1968
Cal Poly is not Berkley, but even at a conservative pragmatic school, enough anti-war idealists could be found to march.
Glenn Allen of Dow Chemical was on campus recruiting job seekers, ...
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