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Strike shuts San Francisco newspapers, Jan. 5 to Feb. 27
Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14, in Super Bowl II. — Jan. 14
Joan Baez, the dream-girl of the anti-war movement, announces in New York she will marry one of its most militant non-soldiers, David Harris. — March 21
President Johnson's daughter and son-in-law, Lynda Byrd and Charles Robb, were ordered off the Hyde Street cable car for having ice cream cones in hand. — March 22
Bay Area residents expressed shock, surprise and some bewilderment at President Johnson's announced withdrawal from the 1968 political arena. — April 1
Violence in S.F., U.S., After King Murder: Juvenile gangs roamed down Market Street after a noon Civic Center memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King, breaking windows, stealing merchandise and baiting police. — April 5
A 4-1 Baltimore victory over the Oakland A's, newly transplanted from Kansas City, spoiled the historic opening-night party at Oakland Coliseum for 50,164 well wishers. — April 18
A move to banish misbehaving, disrobing, litterbug hippies from Golden Gate Park is in full flower by the Recreation and Park Department. — May 10
TV critic Dwight Newton on Democratic National Convention: "Kids by the hundreds were seen being kicked, beaten, clubbed, bloodied, knocked down, and dragged into police wagons. ......... The police and the troops acted like enraged savages." — Aug. 29
"Viva la huelga, viva Chavez!" was the cry of some 5,000 people parading in sympathy with the Delano strike against grape growers. — Sept. 9
Black Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton stands convicted of voluntary manslaughter. At 10:10 last night, a jury, wearied by 85 hours of deliberation, rendered a three-part verdict in the locked and heavily guarded courtroom. — Sept. 9
It finally happened. A baby was born on the Golden Gate Bridge. And the child will be named — what else? — Golden. — Sept. 19
Dr. Samuel Hayakawa took the helm at turmoil-ridden S.F. State. The change in command is the second in less than a year. Striking students are demanding establishment of a Black Studies Department, increased minority admissions, and reinstatement of a Black Panther instructor. — Nov. 27
Zodiac murders begin: A 17-year-old Eagle Scout and his date, 16, were brutally slain by rifle fire last night on a desolate county road about 10 miles east of Vallejo. — Dec. 21