Larry would continue, back and forth, between Washington National Airport and Newark, NJ via the Eastern Airlines, Air Shuttle service up until September of 1971, just before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force.
As an aside, in the beginning, the Eastern shuttle flew, one way, in a mere 29 minutes. By the time of my last flight, the rules had apparently changed. Now this trip in the air lasted almost one full hour. I suspect something referred to as "the OPEC circle" had something to do with it as the skies were quickly becoming more congested.
We listened to 45 RPM and 33 RPM LP’s – yes, all vinyl – and it was ALL good. Being in the DC area didn’t hurt either. Radio, mostly AM radio but emerging FM as well, was readily available and broadcasting all kinds of music. I tend to think that most of us from those school days were listening to WEAM or WPGC. They played music we all liked.
On January 23, 1968, North Korea captured the USS Pueblo, an unarmed US Navy intelligence vessel, in international waters. The North Koreans held the 83-man crew hostage for 11 months. The crew was released in December 23, 1968. The Pueblo remains moored on the Taedong River in Pyongyang, part of North Korea's Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.
On January 30, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault.
In the end, both sides had endured losses, and both sides claimed victory.
On the heels of Tet and the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner by Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the South Vietnamese National Police comes a massacre led by Lt. William Calley. More than 500 people were slaughtered including young girls and women raped before being killed. Calley was found guilty of personally murdering 22 civilians and sentenced to life in prison. There is nothing GOOD about war!
Lyndon B. Johnson appeared on live national television and announced that he was partially halting the U.S. bombing of Vietnam.
He then says that he had decided not to seek his party’s nomination for president with the statement; “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
Thursday at 6:05 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr., was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he and his associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck.
He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39.
Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, after addressing his campaign supporters. He was exiting through a kitchen hallway when multiple shots were fired.
Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital nearly 26 hours later at 1:44 a.m. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery near his brother John F. Kennedy's grave.
Richard Nixon wins the Electoral College, dominating several regions in the Western United States, Midwest, Upland South, and portions of the Northeast, while winning the popular vote by a relatively small 511,944 votes.
Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey and American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace to be elected President of the United States.
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. They orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth.
The three astronauts—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise.
The Prom Dinner and The Sirloin and Saddle at the Fairfied Inn
