UWF Events

• Presidential candidates Henry”Scoop” Jackson and Hubert H. Humphrey visit campus
• UWF receives $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation Venture Fund
• First distinguished teaching awards presented

World Events

• Nixon re-elected president in landslideArab terrorists disrupt Olympics in Munich
• Democratic party’s in Watergate headquarters burglarized
• Nixon and Kissinger visit China and Soviet Union
• Senate passes equal rights amendment
• George Wallace shot while campaigning for presidency
• Death penalty ruled unconstitutional
• Newsman Walter Winchell, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and baseball player Roberto Clemente die
• Life magazine folds