The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK--Summer of '68

Summer of '68 videos

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:02:00 +0000

‘Summer of 1968’ section chronicles a turning point in the nation’s history

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:22:00 +0000

Enid area residents, former residents wax reminiscent about their 1968 experiences

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:15:00 +0000

Vietnam dominated life at Vance

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0000

The Vietnam War dominated life at Vance Air Force Base in 1968, just as it did in the rest of the nation.

Enid surgeon spent summer of ’68 treating wounded soldiers

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:50:00 +0000

Dr. David M. Selby, a 1953 graduate of Enid High School, performed a surgical wonder on a wounded Army infantryman that made the front page of The Enid Morning News on Sunday, April 21, 1968.

Enid woman focused on her family in ’68

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Barbara Finley was 15 years old and was looking forward to her sophomore year at Booker T. Washington High School — Enid’s segregated high school for black students — when she was abruptly called into the principal’s office one day in 1958.

Enid man wore many different hats in 1968

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:36:00 +0000

Nay was an Oklahoma Army National guardsman. He was a full-time worker: a professional photographer. And he was a musician with a popular traveling rhythm and blues group called The Preachers, “Enid’s premier rhythm and blues show band,” Nay remembers.

Native son, former Enid mayor volunteered to serve as Marine

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:33:00 +0000

Doug Frantz experienced ‘68 in Vietnam War

Enid man learned from conflict with his father

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:32:00 +0000

To Frank Baker, a 17-year-old senior to be at Enid High School during the summer of 1968, the tension which developed between he and his father over the protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, were a microcosm of the tensions developing within the U.S. as a whole — mostly between the older and younger generations, but also between hawks and doves, peaceniks and patriots.

Enid couple married in 1968

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:19:00 +0000

John and I were married in Enid in January of 1968. I was 18 years old and he was 20. We, like many others of our generation, were caught up in the

Woman recalls wounded veterans, rioting in D.C. during her 1968

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:09:00 +0000

We lived in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area in 1968. The city had horrible rioting and looting and blocks and blocks of D.C. engulfed in flames form the rioting in Washington, D.C., and some areas of Maryland in Prince George’s County.

Young Enid woman lived in nation’s capital, experienced rioting firsthand

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:08:00 +0000

I remember the year 1968 pretty well. I was 20 years old, and a lot was going on in my life.

Woman recalls feeling wistful, restless in ’68

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:01:00 +0000

I, like many others, experienced one devastating blow after another in 1968. My life was changed forever because of these events.

Culture, the arts thrived in U.S. in 1968

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:56:00 +0000

On the celebration of Christ’s birth in the year 1968, a lunar orbiter circled the heavens providing the manned crew an awesome sight of the earth.