The Enid News and Eagle, Enid, OK Summer of '682012-05-30T06:30:24-05:00urn:uuid:1575a27f-1765-4b04-a464-af48f2bfa485Oklahoma City teens arrested in man’s deathBy Tim Talleyurn:uuid:f79da359-bbf1-4062-a565-68444d437df52010-09-29T15:41:23-05:00
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Police say 49-year-old Lester Wallace called 911 about 11:20 p.m. Sept. 18 and said two people had kicked in the door of his apartment and attacking him. Wallace died the next day.</p>
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Enid woman focused on her family in ’68urn:uuid:03eef119-4966-4185-b4cf-abfad21f9cd92008-07-14T09:43:00-05:00
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 1968urn:uuid:915435a3-6d7e-42f3-ab27-5eb547be475e2008-07-14T09:36:00-05:00
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 Marineurn:uuid:569f17f6-7e9c-409f-951c-6a49069f8cc42008-07-14T09:33:00-05:00
Doug Frantz experienced ‘68 in Vietnam War
Enid man learned from conflict with his fatherurn:uuid:fb02dd74-f01f-4952-a97e-164fdbe7af952008-07-14T09:32:00-05:00
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.
‘Summer of 1968’ section chronicles a turning point in the nation’s historyBy Cindy Allen, Managing Editorurn:uuid:7a9b9f08-3acd-4ef3-8a30-c0e33c98bd332008-07-13T21:22:00-05:00Enid couple married in 1968urn:uuid:1869449c-99dc-4595-8f60-ebe71bd63c8c2008-07-13T21:19:00-05:00
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
Enid area residents, former residents wax reminiscent about their 1968 experiencesurn:uuid:c5932ffc-80a6-4644-b658-b2e8778738672008-07-13T21:15:00-05:00Woman recalls wounded veterans, rioting in D.C. during her 1968urn:uuid:89e93960-84f9-41c2-904e-a54b2f0db9d32008-07-13T21:09:00-05:00
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.