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Thursday, June 6, 1968
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The Headlines
JOHNSON APPOINTS PANEL ON VIOLENCE; 6 IN RACE GUARDED Secret Service Given Campaign Security Task by President Johnson Names a Panel on Violence and Orders a Guard for Presidential Candidates HE VOICES HORROR ON THE SHOOTING Pleads, in Television Talk, for 'End to Violence and Preaching of Violence'
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Mrs. Robinson
Simon & Garfunkel
#1 at the box office
The Graduate †
The must-have
Hot Wheels
You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander Pushkin (1799)
- Diego Velázquez (1599)
- Thomas Mann (1875)
- Sukarno (1901)
- Pierre Corneille (1606)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Computer Mouse (Demo), Boeing 747 & 911 Emergency System.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
21,183 days ago
(58 years, 13 days)