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The 1960s was a very turbulent decade, filled with hope, cultural change and political movements attempting to change the world. 1968 was an extremely significant year, which saw the explosion of tension that had grown throughout the 60s and among different social movements. The year 1968 is often considered one of the most important years in modern history, particularly in America, as political problems and social agitation reached the surface.
Students across the country were protesting for better education, seizing buildings and walking out of their classes. There were numerous protests against the Vietnam War, and extreme rioting after the death of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 was definitely a turning point year, with many demonstrations taking place among different social movements, and two assassinations that would greatly impact the future of politics and civil rights.
This timeline takes a look at the main 1968 events that changed the world, showing what happened in 1968 to make the year so significant. To take a look at what big events make the headlines during this eventful year for yourself, read one of our 1968 newspapers.
Why was 1968 so significant?
The Vietnam War – The Tet Offensive
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Prague Spring and Invasion of Czechoslovakia
January 2: Queen Elizabeth II appoints Cecil Day-Lewis as British Poet Laureate.
January 3: Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars to CBS for $13 million.
January 5: Dr Benjamin Spock is indicted for conspiring to violate draft law.
January 5: Antonín Novotný is succeeded by Alexander Dubček as the Communist Party leader in Czechoslovakia.
January 6: The Beatles' album Magical Mystery Tour goes to number 1 in the charts and stays there for 8 weeks.
January 6: The first US adult cardiac transplant operation is performed by Dr N. E. Shumway.
January 8: Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill visits Dublin to continue discussions with Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch about matters of joint interest to the two governments.
January 14: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in the Super Bowl.
January 15: At the age of 87, Jeannette Rankin, a congresswoman from Montana, leads some 5,000 women on a march in Washington D.C. to protest the Vietnam War. This was very significant to both the anti-war and women's movement, and joined both movements together.
January 21: A US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland.
January 21: One of the most controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins – The Battle of Khe Sanh.
January 23: A spy ship, USS Pueblo, and 83-man crew are seized in the Sea of Japan by North Korea. One crewman is killed while the rest are imprisoned. The event leads to an 11-month standoff between North Korea and the United States.
January 24: Operation Coburg begins – an Australian and New Zealand military action during the Vietnam War.
January 29: American tennis player Billie Jean King beats home favorite Margaret Court in the Australian Open for her 13th Grand Slam singles title.
January 30: Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet Offensive against South Vietnamese and US forces.
January 31: Nauru declares independence from Australia.
Marines in DaiDo, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, 1968
February 1: Former US Vice President Richard Nixon announces his candidacy for president.
February 1: Vince Lombardi steps down as the Green Bay Packers head coach in favor of longtime assistant Phil Bengtson. He stays on as the Packers' general manager for the year.
February 1: Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a Saigon police chief, executes Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to the head. Photographer Eddie Adams captures the execution on camera, and it becomes a major anti-war icon.
February 1: Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
February 1: Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two Memphis sanitation workers, are crushed to death by a malfunctioning garbage truck. Their deaths prompt a strike that becomes part of the civil rights movement.
February 4: Around 100 Indians and Pakistanis arrive in Britain from Kenya, escaping discrimination.
February 6: In Grenoble, France, the X Winter Olympic Games opens.
February 6: The Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns the United States' bombing of North Vietnam.
February 7: An American officer tells the Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett that "it became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it." This quote becomes printed in newspapers across the United States and became a key catchphrase for opponents of the Vietnam War.
February 8: The Orangeburg Massacre takes place, with highway patrol officers killing 3 students and injuring 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University. This is the first student killing by law enforcement in the United States.
February 13: The United States sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam.
February 16: The first 911 phone system in the United States goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
February 16: Elvis Presley receives a gold record for the album How Great Thou Art.
February 16: Members of the Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
February 18: Thousands of people in West Berlin demonstrate against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
February 18: David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd.
February 21: 150,000 people demonstrate against leftist students in West Berlin.
February 21: Major League Baseball announces a minimum salary of $10,000.
February 22: Rock group Genesis release their first record, Silent Sun.
February 21: Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified penicillin, Howard Florey, dies at the age of 69.
February 23: In basketball, Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA player to score 25,000 points.
February 24: The discovery of the first pulsar is announced by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
February 24: In hockey, Gary Unger begins his NHL consecutive game record of 914 games.
February 24: United States troops reconquer Hue, Vietnam.
February 27: CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War.
February 29: The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band wins the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, becoming the first rock LP to win the award.
March 1: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is first performed as a 15 minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London.
March 1-8: 15,000 Latino high school students in L.A. walk out of their classes to press their demand for better education.
March 2: English actor Daniel Craig, the star of five James Bond films, is born in Chester, England.
March 4: Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for the Poor People's Campaign.
March 5: Czechoslovakia abolishes censorship, which is a significant step forward in the country's expansion of freedom during the Prague Spring and irritating the Soviet Union.
March 7: For the first time, the BBC broadcasts the news in color on television.
March 8: In Hagerstown, Maryland, 6 year old Tommy Moore scores a hole in one in golf.
March 8: Students demonstrate in Warsaw, Poland.
March 10: North Vietnamese and communist Laotian troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop.
March 11: Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet.
March 11: For his single Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding becomes the first person in the United States to posthumously receive the gold record.
March 15: The British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns after having a drunken row with Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
March 15: Jimi Hendrix is called the "most spectacular guitarist in the world" by LIFE magazine.
March 15: An uprising in South Yemen takes place.
March 16: 1968's famous events definitely include the My Lai massacre that occurred on this day. In one of the most controversial incidents of the Vietnam War, American soldiers kill 400 unarmed Vietnamese civilians.
March 16: Robert F. Kennedy announces his presidential campaign.
March 16: General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronto.
March 17: The Bee Gees make their first television debut in the United States on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing To Love Somebody and Words.
March 19: At Howard University in Washington D.C., students seize the administration building in an attempt to gain a greater voice in student discipline and the curriculum.
March 20: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money.
March 21: Portuguese socialist Mário Soares banished to Sao Tomé, having been arrested by secret police under dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.
March 22: A student riot takes place in Nanterre, near Paris.
March 27: Sukano is succeeded by Suharto as the president of Indonesia.
March 30: Canadian singer Celine Dion is born in Charlemagne, Quebec.
March 31: In an address to the nation, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection.
March 31: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States soldiers to a peak of 549, 500.
April 2: The Beatles form Python Music Ltd.
April 2: U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy wins the Democratic primary in Wisconsin.
April 2: The film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington D.C.
April 3: North Vietnam agrees to meet United States representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.
April 3: The United States-wide premiere of Planet of the Apes takes place.
April 3: 1,000 men in the United States return their draft cards to government offices all over the country.
April 4: One of the biggest events that happened in 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr., United States civil rights activist, is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassination leads to riots in more than 100 cities in the United States.
April 6: 94.5% of East German voters approve of the new socialist constitution.
April 6: A gas and gunpowder explosion occurs at a sporting goods store in Richmond, Indiana, killing 41 people and injuring more than 150.
April 8: The 40th Academy Awards ceremony is postponed to April 10th due to the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
April 8: Baseball's Opening Day in the U.S. is postponed due to the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
April 8: The new socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect.
April 8: Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000.
April 9: Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral takes place, and he is buried in Atlanta. There were deadly riots in the days between his death and his funeral.
April 11: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Fair Housing Act, which bans discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin. This marks the last of the landmark Civil Rights laws he signed.
April 20: Pierre Trudeau is sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
April 23: Five buildings at Columbia University are taken over by students and they briefly hold a dean hostage in a call to the university to cut its ties to military research.
April 24: Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
May 6: A riot takes place between more than 5,000 university students and the police in Paris. Workers throughout France are staging sympathy strikes within a week after the riot, which threatens the French economy.
May 8: American novelist William Styron wins the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner.
May 8: Italian tennis star Omar Camporese is born in Bologna, Italy.
May 10: Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris between the United States and North Vietnam.
May 11: Actor and singer Richard Harris releases his single MacArthur Park.
May 12: American skateboarder Tony Hawk is born in Carlsbad, California.
May 13: One million French citizens demonstrate against President of France Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou.
May 14: The Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubček.
May 14: Andreas Baader, leader of the Red Army Faction in Germany, is sentenced to three years in West Berlin.
May 15: Wonderwall, the film with George Harrison's Wonderwall Music album as the soundtrack, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival. The soundtrack was the first solo album released by a member of the Beatles.
May 15: Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on the Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, with Joe Garagiola as a substitute host.
May 20: Terence O'Neill, the Northern Ireland Prime Minister, is hit with eggs, flours and stones after a meeting of the Woodvale Unionist Association, a loyalist vigilante group.
May 24: Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull are arrested for drug possession.
May 24: French president Charles de Gaulle proposes a referendum and students in France set fire to Paris Bourse.
May 25: The Rolling Stones release their single Jumpin' Jack Flash.
May 27: The U.S. Supreme Court rules 7-1 that burning a draft card is not an act of free speech protected by the First Amendment.
May 28: U.S. Senator Euguene McCarthy wins the Democratic primary in Oregon.
May 28: Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer, is born in Melbourne, Victoria.
May 29: The European Cup Final takes place in Wembley Stadium, London. Bobby Charlton scores twice as Manchester United beats Benfica 4-1, making Manchester United the first English team to win the trophy.
May 30: The Beatles begin working on their only double album Beatles.
May 30: French president Charles de Gaulle disbands the French parliament.
May 30: The West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law.
May 31: Movie star James Stewart retires from the United States Air Force after 27 years of service.
June 1: Simon and Garfunkel's single Mrs. Robinson from the film The Graduate hits number 1 in the charts, and is the first rock song to win a Grammy for Record of the Year.
June 1: Helen Keller, an American political activist, author and lecturer dies at the age of 87. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a BA.
June 3: The Poor People's March on Washington D.C. takes place.
June 3: Valerie Solanas, an American radical feminist, attempts to assassinate pop artist Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. Later, she is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to 'reckless assault with intent to harm', serving a three year sentence.
June 5: Robert F. Kennedy is shot three times by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, who also wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
June 6: Death of Robert F. Kennedy from his wounds after being shot the night before.
June 7: Sirhan Sirhan is indicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
June 7: The body of Robert F. Kennedy lies in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
June 8: The alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray, is captured in London and is extradited to the United States. He pleads guilty but later recants, dying 30 years later of liver failure in prison.
June 8: Robert F. Kennedy's body is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
June 9: President of Yugoslavia, Tito, promises reforms in the country.
June 10: American comedian and podcaster Bill Burr is born in Canton, Massachusetts.
June 15: John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Coventry Cathedral.
June 18: The U.S. Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing.
June 19: 50,000 people participate in the Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign.
June 20: Jim Hines becomes the first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds.
June 20: The Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, Austin Currie, along with other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
June 20: American director Robert Rodriguez is born in San Antonio, Texas.
June 21: The U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns.
June 23: A football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium kills 74 people and injures 150.
June 24: Resurrection City in Washington D.C. is permanently closed.
June 25: English comedian and actor Tony Hancock commits suicide at the age of 44.
June 26: Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands are returned to Japan by the United States.
June 28: Daniel Ellsberg is indicted for leaking the Pentagon Papers.
June 30: The East German Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht receives the Order of October Revolution.
Robert F. Kennedy appearing before the Platform Committee in 1964
July 1: John Lennon's first full art exhibition takes place, entitled You Are Here.
July 1: The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty is signed by the United States, Britain, the USSR and 58 other nations. It was an international treaty with the aim of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
July 5: John Lennon sells his psychedelic-painted Rolls Royce.
July 5: American businesswoman and CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki, referred to as 'the most important person in advertising', is born in Santa Clara County, California.
July 6: American tennis player Billie Jean King bears Judy Tegart to earn the first ever prize money of £750 offered at Wimbledon.
July 7: The rock group Yardbirds break up.
July 9: In American basketball, Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from the Philadelphia 76'ers to the Los Angeles Lakers.
July 10: The United States Major League Baseball announces it will split into two divisions in 1969.
July 17: The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine premieres in London.
July 18: The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California.
July 20: On live television, Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney.
July 20: At Chicago's Soldier Field, the first Special Olympics opens with more than 1000 athletes with intellectual disabilities competing in 200 events.
July 23: The Glenville Shootout takes place in Cleveland between black militants and police, leaving three dead on each side, plus one bystander. Riots continue in the city for 5 days.
August 8: A Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president.
August 11: The Fifteen Guinea Special is the last mainline steam passenger train service in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make an 120-mile return journey from Liverpool to Carlisle, before they have their fires dropped for the very last time.
August 20: During the night, 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring.
August 21: Marine James Anderson becomes the first African American to win the Medal of Honor after he died covering an enemy grenade to protect fellow Marines during a firefight in Vietnam.
August 21: The Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols.
August 22: Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon, sues John Lennon for divorce on grounds of adultery.
August 23: Ringo Starr temporarily quits the Beatles over a disagreement.
August 24: France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.
August 24: The first civil rights march is held in Northern Ireland. Many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organised counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned.
August 25: Arthur Ashe is the first African American to win the United States singles Tennis championship.
August 26: Hey Jude is released by the Beatles. It becomes Billboard Song of the Year 1968, and the Billboard 10th biggest song of all time in 2013. It is the first Beatles single issued on their Apple label and at more than 7 minutes, it became the longest song to hit number 1 on the Billboard's Hot 100.
August 28: Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention. Police and Illinois National Guardsmen go on a rampage, clubbing and tear-gassing hundreds of anti-war demonstrators, and much of the violence is broadcast on national television.
August 30: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's One on One benefit for children takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York.
A crowd of protesters surrounding Soviet tanks during the first days of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
September 1: An earthquake destroys Ferdows, Persia, killing 2000 people.
September 7: Feminists protest the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
September 8: The biopic film Funny Girl based on the life of Fanny Brice premieres, directed by William Wyler.
September 9: Arthur Ashe wins the U.S. Open, making him the first black man to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament.
September 13: Albania withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.
September 25: American actor and rapper Will Smith is born in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September 26: Theater censorship ends in Britain.
September 28: The Beatles' single Hey Jude reaches number 1 in the charts and stays there for 9 weeks.
October 7: The Motion Picture Association of America adopts the film rating system.
October 7: Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down a civil rights march two days earlier.
October 12: Australian actor and singer Hugh Jackman is born in Sydney, Australia.
October 14: Opening of the rebuilt Euston railway station in London.
October 17: The film Bullitt, directed by Peter Yates and starring Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset is first released.
October 18: The Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, making it the largest permanent big top in the world.
October 18: Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, and the two are fined £150 for marijuana possession.
October 18: The United States Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the 'black power' salute as a protest during the victory ceremony.
October 19: The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco only charges tolls for southbound cars.
October 22: Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
October 25: Yoko Ono announces that she's having John Lennon's baby.
October 26: The first European satellite, Esro 1, is launched at Cape Kennedy.
October 31: With progress in the Paris peace talks, President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to "all air, naval and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam," effective from the following day.
The prime crew on Apollo 7, May 22 1968
November 4: The Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meets the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks about Northern Ireland. Wilson states that no change of the constitutional position of Northern Ireland is possible without the consent of the people.
November 5: The Republican candidate Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, defeating Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey and Independent candidate George Wallace.
November 5: Shirley Crisholm of New York becomes the first black woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
November 9: After 267 years, Yale University makes the decision to admit female undergraduates, effective from 1969.
November 10: Portuguese socialist Mário Soares is released from banishment in Sao Tomé under the new regime of Marcello Caetano.
November 11: The Maldives becomes a republic.
November 12: The U.S. Supreme Court decision Epperson v. Arkansas results in the court declaring unconstitutional the law in Arkansas which bans the teaching of evolution in public schools.
November 22: Terence O'Neill, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announces a package of reform measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority in response to the protest movement.
November 25: American author Upton Beall Sinclair dies at the age of 90.
November 28: English children's author Enid Blyton dies at the age of 71.
November 29: John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their first album Two Virgins in the United Kingdom.
November 30: A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association March in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting.
December 2: U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security adviser.
December 3: Elvis Presley begins a comeback from years of torpor and schlock with a 1-hour special on NBC-TV.
December 4: After a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, a violent crash occurs between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march.
December 9: Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill makes a television appeal for moderate opinion in what became known as the Ulster Stands at the Crossroads speech.
December 10: Joe Frazier defeats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for the heavyweight boxing title.
December 10: The biggest heist in Japan, the still-unresolved "300 million yen robbery" occurs in Tokyo.
December 10: French-American Catholic writer and Trappist monk Thomas Merton dies at the age of 53 after being accidentally electrocuted by an electric fan.
December 12: Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to be ranked number 1 in tennis.
December 20: Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday are killed by the Zodiac Killer in Vallejo, California.
December 20: American author John Steinbeck dies at the age of 66.
December 21: Apollo 8 is launched, with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.
December 23: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first men to orbit the Moon.
December 24: Ballon d'Or takes place: Manchester United's winger George Best wins the award for the best European football player ahead of his team mate Bobby Charlton and Red Star Belgrade winger Dragan Džajić; first Northern Irish national to win the award.
December 25: 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilvenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, in a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers.
December 26: Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Denver takes place when they open for Vanilla Fudge.
December 26: In hockey, Ted Green sets the NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against the New York Rangers in New York's Madison Square Garden.
December 28: 100,000 people attend the Miami Pop Festival.
December 28: The Beatles' White Album goes to number 1 in the charts and stays there for 9 weeks.
As you can see from our timeline, 1968 was a very eventful year, particularly for the United States. It became clear how divided the country was on the Vietnam War and Civil Rights, with events like the Tet Offensive and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. causing the growing tension of the 1960s to reach a peak. It was a year filled with violence and protest as the world grappled with conflict, the Cold War was roaring on, and big events seem to happen one immediately after the other. The year was the result of almost a decade of social protest, and gave revolutionary hope to those wanting change. 1968 is definitely a year to remember, and it holds an important place in modern history.
There were major developments in the Vietnam War in 1968, thirteen years after the war began. The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam, beginning on January 30. The offensive was aiming to foment rebellion among people in South Vietnam, as well as prompt the United States to reduce its involvement in the war. Despite the U.S. and South Vietnam succeeding in holding off the attacks, news of the offensive reached the rest of the world and shocked the American public, massively dismantling support for the war effort.
The offensive caused heavy casualties with North Vietnam achieving victories strategically. The bloody and effective attacks shocked U.S. officials, marking a turning point in the war and the start of gradual U.S. withdrawal from the region. While the Vietnam War, and American involvement, continued, the anti-war movement was gaining more momentum as protests and demonstrations continued across the United States. The movement was making more of an impact, while the Tet Offensive was the military spark that pushed the U.S. to look towards withdrawing from the war.
Many months later on October 31, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a halt to all bombardment of North Vietnam, following his call for peace negotiations earlier in the war. 1968 was definitely an important year for bringing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War to an eventual end.
In an event that sent shockwaves throughout the world, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was assassinated on April 4, 1968. King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when he was struck in the neck with a sniper's bullet. Despite being rushed to hospital immediately afterwards, King was pronounced dead an hour after the event at the age of 39.
King had spent his life committed to gaining racial equality and civil rights for the black population of America. He had been at the forefront of the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, believing in non-violent demonstration methods and passionate speeches to fight racial segregation and make awareness of black issues. Towards his later years, the criticism towards him from other activists grew, since many believed his non-violent approaches were not making any gains. Radical activists favored a more confrontational approach and began to follow the black nationalist leader Malcolm X. However, King's dedication and success to the civil rights movement contributed greatly to the successes of the movement in the mid-20th century.
In the days that followed King's assassination, riots broke out in more than 100 cities in the United States. There were reports of more than 40 casualties, 3,500 arrests and 27,000 arrests as black communities responded to the devastating news. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared April 7 to be a day of national mourning for the leader, with the opening day of the Major League Baseball season postponed and the Academy Awards telecast suspended.
His assassin, James Earl Ray, was captured in London on June 8. He pleaded guilty to the assassination and gained a 99-year prison sentence, but later recanted the plea, claiming he was part of a larger conspiracy. The full story of King's killing remains unknown, but his tragedy definitely solidified his place in a transformative era and led him to become an icon of the civil rights movement.
From 1948 to 1989, Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union, embodying the USSR's communist regime that limited freedom for the people. During 1967, students and writers began to complain about the lack of freedom, as well as the bad performance of the Czechoslovak economy under. The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ignored the country's call for support, and in January 1968, Alexandr Dubček took over as the Communist party leader in Czechoslovakia.
Dubček 's government began to form an Action Plan to increase freedom for the people, naming it a new form of socialism that removed state control of industries and allowed freedom of speech. This began the Prague Spring, where for four months, Czechoslovakia experienced freedom away from the tight communist regime of the Soviet Union. Dubček was committed to communism but allowed the creation of other political parties, but Brezhnev announced the Brezhnev Doctrine, stating that no Eastern European country could reject communism.
Seeing Czechoslovakia as a threat to the regime, 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded the country, and Dubček and three other leaders were arrested. Instead of fighting back, the people of Czechoslovakia protested by standing in front of the tanks, with one man, Jan Palach, even burning himself to death. Brezhnev put a Russian supporter and leader of the KSC in charge, Gustav Husak, to maintain tight communist control. Czechoslovakia enjoyed a short-lived freedom that created hope for permanent change in the country, before returning to restricted Soviet control until 1989.


5 "Mud people" wearing banana leaves attend mass as part of religious festivals in honor of St. John the Baptist, in Aliaga, north of Manila, Philippines.
6 Serena Williams of the U.S. slips during her women's singles tennis match against Anna Tatishvili of the U.S. at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London.
7 Crowd cheer on a rider during the traditional Fiesta of San Joan (Saint John) on the Spanish Balearic Island of Menorca, June 23, 2014. The riders of the horses are representatives of ancient Ciutadella society - nobility, clergy, craftsmen and farmers.
8 A surfer jumps into Port Phillip Bay to take advantage of the waves in Melbourne, Australia.


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Inessah Selditz, Deqing Sun
Plinko Poetry Machine
New York University- Interactive Telecommunications Program
Plinko Poetry is an interactive gaming installation that lets users playfully create poetry from our current news headlines.
The machine's program pulls and displays source text from NY Times and Fox News tweets. The user can then create a poem from the tweets by dropping a chip down the interface, which looks like a plinko board. When the chip comes to a stop, a trail of blackout poetry is created. The poem is then automatically published by being live tweeted to @PlinkoPoetry.
The idea of randomly generated haiku like poetry from current news feed is quite fascinating. The act of using the device also looks enjoyable although some of the jury members felt that its aesthetics could be better.
Plinko Poetry is an interactive gaming installation that lets users playfully create poetry from our current news headlines. The machine's program pulls and displays source text from NY Times and Fox News tweets. The user can then create a poem from the tweets by dropping a chip down the interface, which looks like a plinko board. When the chip comes to a stop, a trail of blackout poetry is created. The poem is then automatically published by being live tweeted to @PlinkoPoetry.
Every day we're bombarded with screaming headlines and we become numb to the meaning of these words. By creating Plinko Poetry we wanted to de-contextualize these headlines from their known format and humorously highlight the sensational, inflammatory and absurd language used by media. We also wanted to create an interactive game installation that uses surprise, wonder and reward to let people step outside of their comfort zone. Some people after being offered a chip to play were reluctant and said that they "weren't a poet." However, with one play of a chip- a matter of a few seconds- a person can becomes a game participant, a poet and a publisher all in one.
Originally we assumed there would be an apparent difference between the language used by the NY Times and Fox News since they are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. But our goal and point of view was to re-create the plinko game mechanics- which is unbiased in nature and discover if our initial assumption was correct. After combining the physical and digital interfaces and juxtaposing the two together- we discovered that both media outlets use strikingly similar language.
Many times with experimental and new interactive installations, designers focus on a concept or using new technology without thinking about the average end user. It then ends up being an experience of having to explain the whole process without letting people experience and discover it themselves. Our project was originally going to be a pinball machine juxtaposed with tweets. However with pinball, there is no explicit commitment to the user and we thought it would dissuade people from trying it out. Since it's an unusual interface we felt people would be more willing to experience it if they knew the time commitment before using the machine. Therefore, we brainstormed more game mechanics and thought plinko would be a better fit. It's quick and within a few seconds one can start and finish the game. Going forward, a lot of our process was determined by simply playing plinko ourselves. It was challenging to re-create not only the physical structure (a custom plinko frame mounted on a LCD screen), but also to write a program that was responsive enough to track, animate and give user feedback simply from color tracking a red plinko chip.
On a daily basis we are overwhelmed with words like "murder", "attack", "bias-crime" and "rampant." With this barrage, we become desensitized and it necessitates that headlines become even louder to get more than a passing glance or a mouse click. Plinko Poetry is an unbiased interactive interface that allows people to remove these words from their original context. It becomes a playful reminder of their meaning and a satirical commentary of contemporary media. It also is a collective poem- a new corpus of ever changing text formed by co-creation. Although the individual poems are often nonsensical, it is a body of words which reflect the zeitgeist of current and past news events.

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The 10 Best Phoenix Bands Under 21
Jeff Moses
| Local Wire |
Jeff Moses | December 10, 2013 | 5:00am
Whether they were adding a bit of flair to an old favorite, taking the scene by storm, or continuing their march to the top, 2013 was a big year for Valley musicians under 21.
Here's 10 of our favorites who spent most of 2013 in the all-ages sections of their own shows.
Sara Robinson:
The 10 Best Phoenix Bands Under the Age of 21 in 2015
You know that movie where the teenager wows all the veteran musicians at an open mic and they all decide to drop their current projects to work with her? That's Sara Robinson's real life. Robinson and the Midnight Special headlined Apache Lake Music Festival and opened for Phoenix royalty Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers; with a record on the way, this bluesy act should only get stronger next year.
Sister Lip:
Sure, they aren't all 21, but get over it: Our math has the high-schooler bassist and the 23-year-old pianist canceled out, leaving the whole band eligible. Whatever their average age, Sister Lip is racking up fans and would-be producers while doing their jazzy thing all over the Valley. While the ladies weigh their recording options, they maintain one of the most popular residencies in the Valley, Mondays at Long Wongs.
Aaron Hjalmarson:
Aaron Hjalmarson's drums always blend seamlessly into the music, which is probably why he's the main percussionist for four bands as well as a regular collaborator with Phoenicians like Emby Alexander. Hjalmarson turned 21 on October 31, just after opening for The Meat Puppets with The Haymarket Squares, so he won't be making this list again. If things keep going this way, he probably won't mind.
Aydin Immortal of Wolvves:
The rest of Wolvves is now of age, but Aydin Immortal is still not quite "having too much fun" legally. That's irrelevant to this 20-year old punk, whose attitude is a match for his music. When asked for an interview Immortal set his terms and was unwilling to budge, because--well, Wolvves is going to sound good regardless. Playing backyard house shows and dates at the Crescent alike, Wolvves is a punk band to look out for; Immortal is a force in the Phoenix music scene that is going to be felt in a big way.
Zombies by Requeim Andrew Pedro of Requiem: Requiem has grown up a lot in two years, maturing into a four-piece ska-core tornado rolling in from the Gila River Reservation. A large part of that musical maturation is thanks to their youngest member, Andrew Pedro. The 19-year-old never leaves a show dry, sweating up a storm while playing some of the fastest drums in Phoenix.
Justin "The Hoon" Waldrop of Skull Drug:
Skull Drug is one of Phoenix's heaviest punk bands, and that's due in large part to the riffs of Justin "The Hoon" Waldrop. The Hoon, nephew of lead singer Evan Williams, gives the band a metal edge with his guitar solos and mid-set headbanging. At 19 Waldrop has already opened for the likes of The Dead Kennedys; with their killer single, "Sleeping In," he and Skull Drug are destined for big things.
The Linecutters:
The Linecutters have only played four shows in their short career, but they know the way to Carnegie Hall and this list--practice. These three 16-year-olds are green as they come, but The Linecutters have managed to impress even the crustiest punks since their debut. When co-frontman and guitarist Marce Festa is able to match the natural stage presence of bass player Jett Smith good thing are ahead, so long as their homework is turned in.
3 Song Demo by Stewart Stephens Stewart Stephens: Stewart Stephens is a twangy 21-year-old playing country music with folk, blues, and punk influences--or maybe that's just the way Stewart presents himself. He only turned 21 in August, but watching him in a dusty Phoenix backyard this summer felt like being transported back in time. Stephens has the raspy voice of a man far older than himself, accentuated well by his washboard-playing bandmate, Garyn Klasek.
The Crown Victoria Vandalism Committee:
The 19-year-olds sitting on this punk committee, Dylan Starks and Mikey "Critical' Xero, are a ton of fun live. Catchy originals like "A Dorner on Every Corner" as well as a cache of acoustic pop-punk covers are carried by Starks' vocal range and Xero's melodic instincts.
Preacher Beak:
19-year-old Lucas Souto, Shade Sikes, and 17-year-old Andrew Attilio make up Surprise-based psychedelians Preacher Beak. In just one year the band has released an EP,
Foot in the Fodder
, and played with Phoenix staples like Wooden Indian and No Longer Together.
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September 02, 1893: "THE GOLER MINING CAMP. Mr. J. W. Abell, formerly a resident of Perris, but now a prospector of the new Goler Mining district, some thirty miles northeast of Mojave, brought with him a handsome assortment of nuggets from his camp. Mr. Abell says there are now about fifty miners in the camp engaged in placer and quartz mining. In the former about a dozen dry washers are at work. Little has been done during the summer, but now that the heat is less intense and the nights are cool, there is a good deal of activity in the camp and many claims are being worked. Besides gold quartz there is also rock containing silver and lead. Mr. Abell displayed a specimen which runs 47 in silver to the ton, and also contains forty-seven per cent, of lead. Mr. Abell returns to the camp today or tomorrow.
January 01, 1894: "SOME MINES OF THE DESERT. – Big Deposits Which Are Difficult to Work. – Some Few Lucky Fellows Who Are Making Money. Possibly a Continuation of the Blue Lead—Trip to the Dlggings and Graphic Description of an Interesting Region.
San Francisco Chronicle: For several months stray reports have been received at San Bernardino, Las Angeles, Bakersfield and other points of the discovery of rich placer mines in the northern portion of the Mojave desert, the locality of the mines being indiscriminately ascribed to Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, whose boundaries meet in that wilderness. It is now known, however, that the mines in question are nearly, if not quite, all within the limits of Kern County. Recently these reports have become more numerous and more glittering, and some most extravagant statements have obtained currency with regard to them. Something very like an old-time rash commenced in consequence, which was amplified because of the large number of idle men who thought they saw in the mines a means of livelihood if not of fortune. So contradictory have been many of the rumors, and so difficult has it been to sift the residue of fact from the mass of rumor, that a representative of the Chronicle decided to investigate the matter personally and learn the truth in the case. Being an old miner and experienced in such matters, it was certain that he could hardly be imposed upon, and that what he reported as the result of his investigations might be accepted as undisputed fact.
Preparations were made accordingly, and about two weeks ago be set out upon what under the most favorable circumstances is a most arduous journey, with little of comfort from commencement to finish. The nearest point to the mines is the station of Mojave, which is the junction of the Southern Pacific and the Atlantic and Pacific railroads, and is situated in the northern part of the desert from which it derives its name. Arrangements were made to have a light wagon and a mule team in readiness to meet the correspondent at that point, which was reached about 9 o'clock in the morning on the train leaving San Francisco at 5 o'clock the previous evening. A more unromantic and uninviting place than this same Mojave, by the way, would be difficult to find. Its chief characteristics are railroad tracks, hoboes, empty tin cans and wind. It is a favorite saying, and a quite truthful one, too, that the wind always blows at Mojave. Here the tides of tramp travel over the two transcontinental lines meet, and being a division headquarters many railroad men are obliged to live here. Obliged is the right word. No one was ever known to deliberately choose this as a place of residence, while the man who does not leave at the first opportunity is a rara avis indeed. Situated as it is in the midst of a desert, all the food of the inhabitants is brought from a distance, and consisting as it therefore does almost entirely of "canned truck," it follows that in the course of the years during which Mojave bas had its windy existence, a vast accumulation of empty cans has resulted, and these are scattered over acres of land in every direction, where they lie, greatly to the wonderment of the traveler who if not posted with regard to the peculiarities of this remarkable place.
But to resume the journey to the mines. Almost due north from Mojave may be seen on a clear day two notable mountain pinnacles, which, the inquirer will be told, are and have long been known as the Goler peaks. Running in a northeasterly direction toward the mountains from Mojave is a wagon road built years ago for the accommodation of teams hauling freight to and from the borax works in San Bernardino County, far to the eastward. This road skirts the foothills, and is for the most part as hard and smooth as a floor, with occasional short stretches of sand, which served to keep one in mind of the fact that this is a sure enough desert. At this time of year the weather is cool and bracing, and desert travel has little of the discomfort and none of the danger that characterizes it during the summer months.
Our mules take us along at a good gait, and not many hours are required to cover the 20 miles from Mojave to the spot where the road forks, one branch—which is the stage road to Keeler, in Inyo county—bearing away in a still more northerly direction. Red Rock canyon is the nearest of the new mining districts to Mojave, and as this is our destination we take the left hand road the point of divergence being a railroad tie set upright in the ground. The Keeler road runs into Red Rock canyon soon after leaving the forks, and it is here that some really good mines are now being worked. This canyon is found to be a gigantic rift through the chain of mountains which bounds the desert on the north, and in no sense is a canyon as that word is generally understood. It would be called a mountain valley only it cuts right across a range instead of splitting one, or being subtended by two ranges on its sides instead of ends. But here it is, the ends of the great mountains respectfully withdrawn so as to make a wide and nearly level pass straight through, several miles in width and with any amount of elbow room. Once within the so called " canyon" there may be seen some of the most splendid natural architectural effect upon earth. There is nothing its equal in symmetry, grace and beauty anywhere else to be seen on the desert. It is beyond description, but the day is coming when it will be widely known to men. And all of these wonderful scenic effects have been produced by the action of time on layers of different tinted sandstone, capped with other layers of volcanic mud.
Two miles through the mountains and a gulch opens to the right. Up this a mile and a half and the dry placers are found. So far 300 locations have been made, generally 1500 feet by 500. Pillars of stones serving as monuments can be seen in every direction. At present there are 35 men in the camp, which is called Red Rock, and the following claims are being worked, named in the order as one goes up what is called the northeast fork of Red Rock canyon. : Davis & Joblin, opening their claim, bedrock deep and not yet reached; Forney, the same; Polley Heaps, taking out pay but making no report thereof; Farrell, prospecting; Shaw, Bell, Standard, Morse and Rendy, working six men altogether. Jackson A Campbell, said to be taking out good pay; Black & Sullivan, working for themselves and doing well; then one and one-half miles further up Holman & Nugent are taking out come gold.
There are claims in this district worthy of note, and they differ in every characteristic save one. They agree in the fact that although called gravel mines, all of the rock is angular, and the sand. even to the finest, is none of it rounded or water-worn. Yet each claim is paying, and paying handsomely.
When the rainy season comes, these side-hill deposits cannot, of course, be worked by dry washing, and anticipating that time they have sunk a shaft nearer the main gulch than their present surface workings. Three feet from the surface they struck "gravel" 3 feet thick. Then came 4 feet of "iron slime," below which are 2 feet of pay dirt, which prospects much better than the upper layer. If water could be used upon the deposits covering these mountain than an immense amount of gold could be extracted, but as it is, by the expensive method of dry washing, only the bed and a little way up the sides of the gulches can be washed, and the great mass of this gold-bearing substance will have to be left untouched.
Black and Sullivan discovered fine gold in this district in May last and have traversed the mountains from Maryland peak, near Tehachapi, to beyond Goler camp in a general course of north 18 degrees east, and have found fine gold in many places along a belt which may, perhaps, average three miles in width. Their theory of these deposits is that they have been gathered by some sort of water action like the wearing of the waves of tbe sea upon the auriferous mountain sides. They do not accept the theory of a stream of gold-bearing gravel having been brought down from Inyo County before the eruption of the tertiary times.
Shaw, Bell & Co.'s claim was located on October 16, 1893, in what now is called Bonanza gulch, a narrow and irregular branch opening into the main gulch something like a mile below the sidehill deposits just mentioned. Here only the main bed of the gulch is being worked to an average width of about six feet. The deposit rarely exceeds 15 inches in depth, yet the output averages an ounce of gold to the man each day. The best days result was 15 ½ ounces, while the largest nugget found weighed 3 ¼ ounces. This product is the result from one dry washer.
The ground being so rich no attention is paid to the sides of the gulch. Only the cream from the center is taken, and the results are indeed satisfactory to the owners. The time will before long come when part at least of this ground will be gone over. At the foot of the Bonanza gulch where its wash debouches into the main channel, a shaft 51 feet deep has been sunk, which shows seven different layers of gravel, and at the lowest of all is said to prospect from 30 to 60 cents to the pan. There were no boulders to contend with, and no water was encountered; but the owners are waiting until the rainy season to continue sinking and prospecting in the pay channel.
Pretty much all of the area where prospecting has shown gold to exist, or where its presence is even suspected, has been staked off, and diligent search failed to show us, even if we had desired, an opportunity for making a location with any reasonable prospect of success. So, bidding farewell to Red Rock canyon, after a couple of days' inspection, we struck out for Goler, soma 18 or 20 miles distant.
The present discovery of coarse gold reads like a regular mining romance, and outlines with bold strokes those peculiar vagaries of chance which so coquettishly attend upon the discovery of the glittering gold. In December, 1892, Ramsey Cox of San Bernardino was on his way to Death Valley with a dry washer. A stiff desert breeze came up, and, to escape its penetrating chill, be turned out of the beaten way into Goler Gulch. Looking around with the natural instincts of a prospector, he espied some gravel. To see it was to try it, and from his first shovelful he panned out nuggets, of bright, coarse gold. Death Valley lost all of its charms for him, and his dry washer still gathers gold in Goler.
From the mouth of Red Rock canon a drive of sixteen to eighteen miles, continuing in the same northeasterly course from Mojave, brings one to the mouth of Goler canon. Midway of the distance the level road for miles skirts a dry lake, whose surface is covered with a grayish white crust of crystalline effervescence, chiefly soda and salt. By the head of this lake, at a place called Desert Springs, is the headquarters of a cattle range where stock is driven from the Kern-river country for winter and spring feed on salt grass. As a general thing these ranges are over stocked, twenty to twenty-five acres of desert feed being none too much for one animal, so most of the poor creatures do penance for their daily lives by browsing upon greasewood, and a sorry-looking lot they are.
Midway of the drive is the new post office of Koehn, established for the convenience of the Golerites by the side of a somewhat brackish spring, infinitely better than none, however. Charles Koehn is postmaster, storekeeper, boniface, mail carrier and very much of an accommodation in general.
Goler gulch is like ordinary canyons and not a massive rift through the mountains like Red Rock. Little is doing in the main canon. Three or four miles up from the mouth there is a small stream of good water, and there three or four Mexicans are making small wages washing dirt with a rocker. The dry placers are in two gulches to the south of Goler canon, and are the last places on earth where an experienced prospector would have hunted for gold. There is nothing on the surface to indicate the existence of the precious metal. The low, smooth bills are all covered with debris of a recent formation, the earth is reddish, there is not a sign of gravel, and, besides an occasional water worn boulder, the rocks are small and angular, of a porphyritic, slaty or limestone nature.
Yet by conservative estimates, $30,000 in gold has been taken out of the Benson and Read gulches during the past year. The Benson gulch comes first, as nearest to Mojave. Near its mouth Campbell and Kennedy, two experienced miners, have sunk a shaft 107 feet deep, reaching bedrock at that point. The wash matter, which shall here be called gravel, since everyone in the camp so terms it, prospects in gold from the surface to the bottom —not enough to pay by dry washing, but if water could be bad handsome returns would be realized. They are now drifting across the gulch in order to strike the pay channel, a thing which seems fairly within reach, for this channel, wherever found further up the gulch, has paid handsomely. They are miners and understand their business. Consequently, the work is done in good shape. The "gravel" stands in place well without timbering, and but one set of timbers has thus far been put in the shaft, which bas cost about $2 a foot to sink it to its present depth. The bedrock they have found looks like serpentine, and yet appears to be of a lime nature.
Next comes the claim of Meacham & Yager, which is worked by an open cut 12 to 16 feet wide and nowhere deeper than 10 feet to bedrock. This claim is paying well.
Willard'a claim follows. Here two dry washers are used, and the open cuts are about the same width and depth of the Meacham claim below, equally good results being obtained.
Benson Brothers' workings are next in order, and a like condition of affairs is to be seen. Some estimate that this claim has already yielded $12,000. Whatever the output, it is being vigorously and carefully worked. Reed's gulch is the next north. Nearest its mouth is the claim of Johnson & Hagge, where a 30-foot shaft bas been sunk and the channel found. Six men are employed, and it is stated that the yield by drifting is about half an ounce of gold to the man per day.
The Groves & Reed claim is next. Here the ground is worked by an open cut, 16 feet to bedrock at the lowest point to the gulch and about 12 feet in width. In going up the gulch the wash gradually becomes shallower. The owners are convinced that not enough attention has been paid to the bank diggings here as elsewhere, the only effort having been to find the lowest point in the bedrock and then work a few feet on each side. These diggings are yielding about half an ounce of gold per day to the man.
Near the bead of this claim the 56 ½ ounce gold nugget was found which will be exhibited at the midwinter fair. The wash was about four feet deep and the nugget lay about four inches above bedrock, in a sort of bowl-shaped nest. W. C. N. Miller, who was working in the open cut, struck the nugget with his pick. It was so large that he could not be convinced that it was gold until he lifted it. When he turned it over to the owners, "one of them," as Miller said, "jumped as high as my shoulder." But Mr. Miller is not a very tall man. Right beside where this nugget lay 12 1/2 ounces more of gold were taken out.
Benson brothers own a claim a little higher up, on the right fork from this gulch, which is said to be the richest one in the camp.
Above Goler, high up in the mountains, is a very steep gulch, 3750 feet long, owned by McAfee, Moore, Shropshire and Groves. It is not worked over 6 feet in width, and the bedrock is from 1 to 4 feet below the surface. Here were recently found two nuggets, one weighing about three and a half ounces, and the other eight and a half ounces. There was not over a foot of wash covering them.
The Red Rock claims are upon the western and the Goler upon the eastern slope of the same mountain chain, and have little resemblance to each other. The foothills in the Goler district are covered with wash, and it is stated that all of it prospects a little in gold—enough, if water could be obtained, to make a magnificent hydraulic gold field. The gulches, so far as prospected, have channels that pay handsomely. But there is no room now here for prospectors.
The whole country for miles around is covered with location notices. Corner and center monuments and the like are as plenty as greasewood bushes, or almost so. Everyone who has been upon the ground, after recording for himself, seems to have built a lot of monuments in memory of his wife's relations, and in this wise the whole country has been "gobbled up." Most of the locations from a local standpoint, are valueless, but a prospector who comes along willing to put bard, honest work upon a claim is not going to prospect where someone else has posted a location notice. Why should he? If he strike it rich someone will show up and try to claim it or seek to be bought off, and if he finds that the claim is worthless be baa proved that fact at his expense for the benefit of another man.
There would be a splendid show for many an idle miner to make $1 a day and upward, with the chance ever before him of striking it rich, if this wholesale location in job lots had not been practiced. But these districts can never have much popularity, for the reason that the entire supply of water in the country, good, brackish and bad, is sufficient for only comparatively few.
Eighteen miles beyond Goler, in the same northeasterly course, a new discovery has been made by the Van Slaicks. A rush bas been made to it, and numerous square miles of desert arc breeding stone pyramids, but thus far the Van Slaick gulch is the only one that has produced any gold. The gulch is short, but the gold is fairly coarse.
A mysterious district has also just been located. The chief mystery it where gold can be found, for no one has seen or heard of any yet. Nevertheless, location notices are out announcing the marriage of Lead to Cupidity, and are posted in stone monuments as usual.
The mode of location has the merits of ease and illegality to a marked degree. Take a paper, ten to one written on the back of an old envelope, from its last resting place, the stone pyramid, and you will read: "I, Joe Doe, have this day located 1500 feet by 600, running 75 feet each way from this notice in a northeasterly direction, commencing with the northeast end of the claim located by John Don, to be known as the Dan Pan." John Doe takes John Don's corner monuments for his own, steps out 750 feet northeasterly by a sort of mental guesswork, which makes it a thousand feet at least, and puts up a center monument, within which his notice is inserted. Then he goes north east until he is tired, calls it 750 feet, guesses about how far each way 300 feet would be, builds a monument at each corner, then turns his back upon the whole enterprise, and the chances are one to ten thousand that he will ever see his claim again unless someone develops gold for him. But then this is on the desert, where men and water are scarce. Hence the tediousness of legal red tape is a thing to be lost sight of, for no lawyer would ever venture upon the desert for fear the devil might get his own. So the poor prospector, "who takes his life in his hands and goes forth," hurries to take his life back again and go out, leaving his claim of title builded in stone behind him.
A new deposit of coarse, gold-bearing gravel has recently been discovered about 20 miles northeast of Goler. At a miners' meeting held Tuesday it was ordered that only one claim could be located by any one man, and that no man should locate a friend's unless such friend himself was in the district. This course has been taken to meet a complaint which has been strongly heard from the other three camps, to the effect that one or more men have located as many as 40 claims in one district, thus shutting out all others.
Mining law recognizes clearly the first in say, for it is positively set forth that "the first on record shall hold." It seems hardly fair that one man should take up a whole district, yet again it is not just that a man who has taken his life in his hands and has gone out alone into a desert should not be allowed any reasonable latitude for remembering his friends and those whom he knows, if, by fortunate chance, he should discover that dream of men's dreams, pure virgin gold. To allow one man all of a district is too liberal, but to give him only one chance at the fortune that he has discovered does not seem right. There should be a medium that is happier than either of the present ways.
The only places where gold has been thus far found lie upon one side or the other of a mountain range which has a general course a little east of north, and is a portion of the Sierra Nevada chain. Upon its summits there are traces of an ancient river bed, and there is no doubt but that at some prehistoric time before the tertiary period, a stream, such as would be produced by the union of the Owens and Kern rivers, had its channel where now is the upheaval which has made the present Goler mountain chain. Associated with this mountain, as a parallel is a series of distinctively volcanic ridges, which give evidence of a period of intense heat. It is a plausible theory that the heat of those volcanic days aggregated the gold in the ancient river bed, and that since then cloud bursts and the erosions of time have washed the precious nuggets down the mountain sides and partially concentrated them in the gulches where they are now found. Every particle of gold gives signs of having been melted, as it undoubtedly was in the days of upheaval and chaos in the desert.
Red Rock, Colorado and El Paso camps are upon the western side of this old river chain, while Goler, Summit and Camp Mystery lie upon the eastern slope. The idea has been advanced that this old river bed is the same dead channel which is found along the Sierra as far as the Oregon line and is usually known as the Blue lead, and that idea is not without merit. From Mojave to the different camps, in each case by a good wagon road, the distances are as follows: Red Rock, 26 miles; Goler, about 40 miles; Summit, 55 miles. El Paso is about 12 miles from Coyote Holes, or Freeman Post Office, a station 50 miles from Mojave.
Where the miners live are all "dry camps;" that is, there is no water, and that necessity of life has to be hauled in barrels to the prospectors' home. Hay and grain and, of course, everything that man needs for his sustenance, has to be brought from Mojave, and there are already freighting teams sufficient for present needs. The distances from the different camps to good water range about as follows: Red Rock, three miles; Reed and Benson gulches, in Goler district, fire miles, over a miserable road, which no one seems to have time to fix; Summit,12 miles; El Paso, eight miles; Colorado camp, four miles.
Everyone lives in tents and blankets for sleeping purposes are spread on the hard ground. For food, flour and bacon are the staples, with vegetables in abundance. So far as living goes there is both comfort and abundance in every camp. Sunday is washday, when the boys loaf, sew on buttons and pray for Monday to come. It is a fact, remarkable enough, that no liquor is sold in any of these camps.
Without the invention and perfection of the dry washer nothing could be done at any of these desert camps. The method is yet in its infancy and before very long the same system of dry washing will be in extensive use during the summer time in places where there is an abundance of water. There are several kinds of machines, costing from $50 upwards, and each has its stout friends and equally pugnacious enemies. But the principal is alike in all. Men with a little ingenuity make their own machines at a cost of only a few dollars, and these seem to be just as effective as any. The machine has, first of all, a quarter-inch mesh, set at an angle of about 35 degrees. Upon this all of the dirt is shoveled. The fine stuff that falls through this screen goes into a hopper which has at the bottom a little door, fixed with a trip handle, and so arranged that it can be set to open more or less as desired at each blast of the bellows. Upon leaving the hopper the fine stuff falls upon a brass screen of 80 to 100 mesh to the inch, underneath which is tightly stretched fine muslin. This screen table is set at an angle varying from 20 to 30 degrees, and has transversely across it rifles which project about one-half an inch high. Beneath all of this is a pair of bellows. The gusts or jets of air produced by the bellows action keep the loose stuff that is on the wire screen in constant motion. Gradually the line and worthless stuff blows away or washes over the riffles to the spout. Alter 15 shovelfuls of dirt have been fed into the machine and winnowed the screen table is taken oat and its contents carefully emptied. At the close of the day these concentrates are carefully panned in water, just as would be done in any placer camp.
A careful review of the entire region thus far worked leads one to the opinion that there is a great area of gold-bearing drift capable of yielding fair wages to careful workmen for many years to come. There seems to be no reason why many gulch claims will not yet be found that will yield as well as those at presently being worked, and there are large deposits of drift which can be made to pay $2 to $3 a day to the man when the present thirst for rich diggings chokes itself out. The present mining is too hastily done. In the open cuts the only thought seems to be to find the lowest place in the bedrock and work a few feet on each side, no attention being paid to bank digging and to prospecting for side stringers and chispas, as should be done. The day will come when much of the present ground will be worked over, and if done with patience and skill good wages will result.
There is a great amount of ground that will yield very little only the scantiest kind of pay by dry washing, and appreciating that fact the miners of the Goler district have already set their hearts on having water brought in from Owens River, some 90 miles distant. To this end the whole country has been recorded, and the locators have formed the Goler Consolidated Company, with claims aggregating 4000 acres, in area. The promoters of the Inyo canal are said to look with favor on the enterprise. With water brought on this would make a magnificent hydraulic field, but to do this is a matter of a great deal of time and a large sum of money.
January 20, 1894: "NEWS HAS BEEN RECEIVED that on Saturday last Campbell and Kennedy, the two miners who sunk a shaft near the mouth of Benson gulch, in Goler mining district, 107 feet deep before reaching bedrock, struck the pay channel. They found coarse gold in quantities that will pay handsomely and are reported to have taken out $100 the first day. The singular thing about it is that, unlike any other gold thus far found in this last strike, the gold is in quartz, or rather, quartz is associated with the gold, and this is the first evidence of quartz in the whole district. It is quite evident that the possibilities of that region are not yet within comprehension. The storm which had been so general throughout the state has raged with great force on the desert and most of the prospectors are striking out for warmer quarters, all of them, of course, intending to return in the spring." --Mohave County Miner.
February 05, 1894: "AT GOLER. Among other parties working at tbe Goler camp are the Benson brothers of San Bernardino. This party consists of three, all young men. They went to Goler a few months ago, located claims and began work. A gentleman who is in a position to get the facts says these brothers have already taken out not less than $120,000. Recently richer ground than any before opened has been found. Gulches in the hillsides have been prospected and found very rich.
March 31, 1895: "All the old-timers remember John Goler, who kept a blacksmith shop and a carriage warehouse in a long adobe building that boasted a second story over only half of it, and that occupied the site oh the west side of Los Angeles street two doors south of Commercial, now occupied by the Ilayden & Lewis Co., the harness and leather dealers. John Goler won most of his fame from his exploits in Death Valley.
The Largest Nugget Found At Goler In 1932 Weighed One And A Quarter Pounds and Was Valued at $403, When Gold Was $36 An Ounce.
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My name is Natalie Wells and I am a graduate of the Natural Chef Training Program.
Although I am originally from San Diego, I moved to Boston to study at Northeastern University, where I received my bachelor's degree in communications. After 5 years, I decided I was done with the cold and moved to the Bay Area.
My initial plan was to work in the food industry and use my degree in communications. I got a job at a small public relations firm in the Mission where we represented some popular Bay Area restaurants and food brands, but I would often sit at work and daydream about my next meal. I knew that I wanted to make food my career, but I didn't want to work as a line cook or night shift baker and felt there had to be another way.
I applied to work at both Nourish Café and Seed + Salt, two natural, mission-driven restaurants in San Francisco, but couldn't stomach working unconventional hours. A few months later, I began working with a local chef and fell in love with cooking.
While I had a passion for delicious food and working in the culinary field, I was also suffering from chronic, debilitating stomach aches, food sensitivities, and unexplained weight gain (later diagnosed as small intestinal bacterial overgrowth or "SIBO"). I decided to enroll in Bauman College's Natural Chef program not only to bolster my own culinary skills, but to better understand my health issues, learn more about how food can help us heal, and gain the tools to help others with similar issues.
As a self-taught chef, I didn't know the proper way to chop vegetables or how long it takes to caramelize an onion. The Natural Chef Training Program allowed me to really hone my skills and I enjoyed everything I learned, especially the benefits of soaking and sprouting seeds. The program also debunked a lot of food myths I had learned from trendy health magazines.
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Date: May 8, 2019 — June 2, 2019
Tues. - Thurs. at 7 pm
Fri. & Sat. at 8 pm
Sun. at 2 pm
Post show Talk Backs May 15 & 26
By David Auburn
Original Music and Sound Design by John Gromada
Directed by Maura Hanlon
Presented with generous support from:
Proof is an intimate "fly on the wall" look at a brilliant mathematician, his protege, and his daughter, all committed and passionate about their pursuit to understand the world through a mathematical lens. A beautifully crafted drama that allows room for humor and for hope in lives that must sacrifice individual ambition for family, Proof swept all the awards in 2001, including the Tony and Pulitzer for Best Play.
Monica Giordano
Monica Giordano (Catherine) – Monica is an actor, writer, and model based in New York. Select theatre credits include: Chill, Silent Sky (Merrimack Rep,) A Midsummer Nights Dream (Actors Shakespeare Project), Miss Holmes (Greater Boston Stage Company), The Tempest, Tartuffe (Shakespeare & Co.) Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice (Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare/Pigeon Cry Productions). Select film and television credits include: The Dollhouse (2019), Zimmer met Meerblick, The Primrose, I Kant Even, Julian, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Monica received an F Minus in freshman algebra. Her parents are proud. Love to them, Marcus, and to Emma and Meg for teaching me how to be a sister.
Mark S. Cartier*
Mark S. Cartier is proud to make his Cape Rep debut. In Boston, he has worked at Shear Madness, the Lyric Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre and Boston Shakespeare Company. In Rhode Island, he has appeared at Ocean State Theatre and the Gamm. And in Maine, he has worked at Penobscot Theatre, the Public Theatre and has been a company member of the Theater at Monmouth for over 20 seasons. This summer at Monmouth, he will play Polonius in Hamlet, Shallow in Merry Wives of Windsor and a dozen roles in Ken Ludwig's Baskerville.
Wes Williams
As someone who takes his weekly Dungeons & Dragons game just as seriously as he takes his physical health, Wes is so excited to step into the shoes of fellow jock/geek, Hal. Since working on the show in a university acting lab, Proof has ranked high on Wes's bucket list of plays. Originally from South Carolina, Wes has been an NYC-based actor since graduation last year. Recent works include: Spring Awakening, 35mm: A Musical Exhibition, Violet, and Really, Really. Thanks to friends, family, and Cape Rep for this truly awesome opportunity. Andreadis Talent Agency. Proud CCU Alum. Wesawilliams.com
Holly Erin McCarthy
Holly Erin McCarthy is a local performer, director and writer who is thrilled to return to Cape Rep for her 13th consecutive season, having first appeared almost twenty years ago in By the Bog of Cats (which was also directed by Mo Hanlon!) Favorite Cape Rep credits include Avenue Q, Failure: A Love Story, Wintertime and many outdoor children's shows. Holly is also the founding director of Theater Under the Stairs, for whom she has written many original children's shows, including Lulu's Lemonade Stand, which was produced here in 2017 and inspired a picture book, co-published by Cape Rep. This August, Holly will premiere a new Lulu spin-off as well as her Dark Night Cabaret series in Cotuit.
* Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, appearing under Special Appearance Contract.
Maura Hanlon
Maura Hanlon (Director) – is the Associate Artistic Director at Cape Rep Theatre. In addition to opening our 2019 season with Proof, she is really excited to be directing the secret show running in September/October. She is fresh off of adapting (with Janine Perry) and directing The Odyssey with Cape Rep's Young Company. She had an extraordinarily busy 2018 season, adapting and directing Great Expectations for YoCo, directing Merrily We Roll Along and Shakespeare in Love, and appearing as Rosie in Mamma Mia! and Helen in Fun Home. Mo has directed many, many plays at Cape Rep, and quite a few elsewhere. Favorite directing credits include Men on Boats, Failure: A Love Story, Jerusalem, Eurydice, Wintertime, The Rose Tattoo (Cape Rep) and Peter Pan and Wendy (HJT). She is also a sometime actor (including Cape Rep's The Drowsy Chaperone, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play), a frequent sound designer (My Name is Asher Lev, Top-dog/Underdog, The Bottom of the Sky, to name just a few), and an occasional playwright (Good Bye, Mary Rose, Dinosaur Pirates from Outerspace!, which she also composed, and Alice in Wonderland). Mo is a graduate of Holy Cross where she was a French/Pre-Med major. She studied acting and directing at Trinity Rep Conservatory and received her MFA in directing from UCSD. She was twice nominated for the Richard E. Sherwood Award at the Mark Taper Forum and was offered a Drama League Directing Fellowship. Her productions have been named frequently in the Cape Cod Times annual "Favorite Shows of…" She is a well-respected acting teacher and coach, and teaches acting and directing through Cape Rep's Theatrelab and YoCo. Extra-special thanks to her incredibly supportive family, Art, Paddo, Seamus and Macklin. MauraHanlon.com.
Scenic Design
Ryan McGettigan
Ryan McGettigan (Scenic Design) Ryan is a Houston-based scenic designer of theater, opera, and dance working across the country and Europe. He is the Resident Designer at Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster, MA as well as a Company Artist with Prague Shakespeare Company and the Classical Theatre Company of Houston. Regional Credits: Theatre under the Stars, Stages Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare & Company, Cape Rep, Abilene Shakespeare Festival, Legacy Theatre, Prague Shakespeare Company. Opera and Dance: Glimmerglass Festival, New Orleans Opera, Opera San Jose, HGOco, Open Dance Project, and the Houston Ballet. Recent and Upcoming: Cape Rep: Shakespeare in Love. Glimmerglass Festival: Cunning Little Vixen. More at www.RyanMcGettigan.com
Robin McLaughlin
Robin McLaughlin (Costume Design) was resident costume designer at Cape Rep Theatre for many years. After several years in California she is very happy to be back East to work at Cape Rep once again. She continues to be a nationally known designer of hand made journey bags and has added custom wedding accessories to her collection.
Paul Miller (Lighting Design) – Broadway: Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde, Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only. Off-Broadway: Desperate Measures, First Love, Out Of The Mouth Of Babes, Clinton – The Musical, Pageant, Vanities – the Musical, Waiting for Godot. Regional: The Old Globe, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, D.C. Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, American Conservatory Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, The Goodspeed Opera House, Pittsburgh CLO and others. U.S. Tours: The Illusionists, Elf, Shrek, Story Time Live, Wizard of Oz, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray, The Producers, The Sound of Music. Television: Camelot (Live from Lincoln Center), numerous specials for Netflix, Showtime and Comedy Central.
Anthony Teixeira
Anthony Teixeira (Stage Manager) – is a local performer, producer, music director and educator who is always grateful to be working with Cape Rep. Previous shows here include Shakespeare in Love, Mamma Mia!, Merrily We Roll Along, The Tuna Goddess, Evita, Funny Girl, The Light in the Piazza, Mack & Mabel, A Year with Frog & Toad, Lyle the Crocodile, and How I Became A Pirate, as well as shows at Cotuit Center for the Arts, Harwich Junior Theatre, and Theater Under the Stairs. Anthony has been a soloist and featured singer for the Cape Symphony, including their recent concert performance of The Wizard of Oz.
Photos courtesy of Bob Tucker/Focalpoint Studio
"Director Maura Hanlon and her outstanding cast have made this well-crafted play thought-provoking and entertaining." – Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll, Cape Cod Times
"It works from the start, an emotionally compelling drama that's just mysterious enough to leave audiences second-guessing what they thought they saw." – Jeannette deBeauvoir, pTownie.com
"Proof" is a complete package; a well-written play superbly directed by Maura Hanlon with four talented actors." – Amy Tagliaferri, The Cape Cod Chronicle
"Everything about this production is spot on from the heartfelt acting to the gorgeous details created by the production team." – Laurie Higgins, The Cape Codder


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Speed kills as Bamberg mounts its charge
With an 85-65 point win over FC Barcelona, Brose Bamberg moved right back into playoff contention. Emmet Ryan looks at how this side has learned to rebuild after an awful 2-8 start to the season
Ball movement is what defines Brose Bamberg's game. Andrea Trinchieri has set his side a simple challenge, move it fast, assume it will go right, be ready for when it doesn't. The German champions showed just how effective that approach can be in a win over Barcelona that was far more complex than the 20 point winning margin suggested.
By running a hot tempo throughout, Bamberg were able to force Barcelona outside their comfort zone. They are hardly the first time to show up Barca's issues handling a hot pace this season but the ability to force turnovers with regularity, 18 in all on Thursday night, pointed to where Trinchieri sees depth to his high speed approach. It's not just about making space for the offence, Bamberg wants to use its speed to make the other side less fluid when Trinchieri's charges are on D. In the first half Bamberg didn't stomp all over Barcelona as they moved into a double digit lead, instead it was more like they glided into control. Nowhere was this more obvious than with Nicolo Melli whose 17 points and 13 rebounds didn't require the dominant heroics that won him the December MVP award. Just by doing his job and, often, deferring he was able to play an effective role.
That willingness to defer to aid movement wasn't entirely positive. Jerel McNeal has a chance to make a big impact for the deep Bamberg backcourt but he was almost too unselfish in this game. It was his debut and having been through lots of short term gigs, this was his first opportunity to show his 2015-16 season with Aris wasn't an aberration but rather a sign of what he can do when given a chance to stay around a while. McNeal's hunger and willingness to operate was obvious but he could do with showing a touch more nastiness, to go out and show what he can do.
That aggressive streak can come, Darius Miller is proof of that. Just as it took him most of last season to show he could step up and be the guy at Bundesliga level, he's taken his time to establish Miller-time in Euroleague. Thursday was a coming out part for the more explosive version of the former Kentucky Wildcat. Going 4 of 4 from deep in the first half and 6 of 8 overall, he is developing into the kind of weapon Bamberg needs him to be to stay in the playoff race.
Those last two from deep were part of a statement finish to the game for Bamberg. The Bavarian club's inability to close out games cost them dearly during the first third of the season. Having seen a big lead whittled away to just 6 points with 8 minutes to play, Bamberg came out angry and stopped the Blaugrana's comeback dead in its tracks. As soon as Barca cut it to 6, Miller responded with a three. When they did it again a couple of minutes later, it was another big three from Miller that stopped Barca's run.
Then we got to see the best of Daniel Theis. In the space of three plays, separated by a timeout, he made a big stop on D, hit a three, then made a big dunk to bury the Blaugrana. Having been a young talent who was reliable but a touch naive on the inside, Theis is turning into a man Bamberg can rely on at the 5 to do the dirty work and be there with the odd flashy moment. He's not a big time badass but he more than gets the job done now and Trinchieri doesn't fear him wilting if another centre goes for him.
That's the type of stand your ground mentality Bamberg needs to keep this resurgence going. At 7-9, they are right in the mix for the post-season now having looked dead and buried six games ago.
*Extra notes
– For Barcelona, this was probably the healthiest and most active Juan Carlos Navarro has looked in a Euroleague game in years. We're never going to get the JCN of old back, but if Barca can keep him at this level of health at 36 he should be able to contribute significantly for them.
– While his free throw shooting was awful, the quiet renaissance of Ante Tomic continued nicely here. His last two games saw far better displays from the floor but he looks to be shaking off whatever demons ruined his game for a year and a half.
– This isn't Barztokas ball and that's a bit of a concern for Barcelona. They have suffered their share of injury woes but the simplicity that the Greek coach normally brings to set players free isn't happening right now. The return of Shane Lawal to give another option can't come soon enough for Barcelona's playoff push.
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A report from EMC predicts that by 2020, we'll create and copy 44 trillion gigabytes worth of data each year.
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Data plays many roles in a business: It aids in effective decision-making, it allows for objective analysis, it simplifies communication, and so much more. When you decentralize data management and teach employees in traditionally tech-light roles to employ it properly, you open the door for innovations at every level of the company.
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