A Year to Remember 1967 in Southwest Kansas
Year end comments recall 1967 as a year of weather extremes in Garden City and Finney County. A June tornado struck for the first time in 85 years, followed by a damaging hail storm ten days later. Sublette and rural areas suffered hail, wheat was too wet then too dry, and Holcomb hosted filming of In Cold Blood. Vietnam losses and local passings marked the year, yet the community eyes 1968 with hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Finney
Sublette
Bentey
Bentley
Lucille Campbell
Garden City
California
Chan. B. Campbell
Ninth Street
Eighth Street
Grant Avenue
Year in review calendar drifted through a homemaker's 1967
A community diary of PTA, 4-H, Scout camps, concerts, and birthdays shows no major events in 1967 except a tornado on June 23. References Oklahoma production, In Cold Blood film, and a 1968 calendar plan contrast with sparse national concerns. Dental appointments and a Bloodmobile date are noted for January and February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okla
Oklahoma
Finney County
Hollywood
Garden City
Reflections on Southwest Kansas Letters for 1967
Barbara Oringderff shares reader letters from 1967 about Southwest Kansas, recalling Mrs. T. B. Bowen of Dodge City and Cimarron, a Wettick railroad marker, Art Bentley of Dighton, Lucille Campbell of Garden City, and Ingalls era memories. She plans to meet more readers in 1968 and invites letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Oringderff
Kansas
Marvel Gilger
Garden City
M. G. Klein
Standley
Douglass
FBI Wiretap Tapes Link Long to Shenker and Black
Drew Pearson reports the FBI overheard a Feb 1963 call tying Missouri Senator Ed Long to St. Louis attorney Morris Shenker. The tapes also reveal plans involving a plane meeting and warnings about hiring Shenker. Long denies ever meeting Fred Black. The episode ties into larger inquiries and mentions Bobby Baker and LBJ in a broader eavesdropping context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fred Black
FBI
Lyndon Johnson
Sen
Ed Long
D-Mo
Senator Long
St. Louis
Morris Shenker
Lite Magazine
Long
Shenker
Senate Ethics Committee
Black
Ed Levinson
Las Vegas
Springfield
Bobby Baker
Senate
Levinson
Baker
Teamsters
Kansas City
U.S
F. Russell Millin
Bobby
Millin
Missouri
Ed. Long
Stuart Symington
LBJ
Johnson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holcomb
Vietnam
Southwest
Dee Francisco Ranch
Ingalls
Logan County
Greensburg
Garden City Telegram
News of
Drew Pearson
Internal Revenue
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