Remembering 1975

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Remembering 1975

These were the events that we saw as well as some notable people we said farewell to in ‘75

On January 1^st, A jury convicted Nixon aides H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman, & Robert C. Maridan of Watergate cover-up charges.
The American Bicentennial observance officially gets under way.
South Vietnam surrenders to Viet Cong & Communist forces.
The U.S. & The U.S.S.R. begin talks to limit strategic nuclear arms.
The U.S. & Soviet spacecraft link up in space.
Jimmy Hoffa disappears.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys won their respective conference titles and met in the Super Bowl in January of 1976. The Steelers won a thriller 21-14.
President Ford escapes an assassination attempt by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of convicted murderer Charles Manson.
Archie Griffin won the Heisman Trophy for the second time, the only time a player has won the award twice.
Oklahoma won the college football National Championship after defeating Michigan 14-6 in the Orange Bowl.
Patty Hearst is arrested 19 months after being kidnapped by the SLA.
The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series.
President Ford escaped a second attempt on his life, this time by Sara Jane Moore.
Donald Rumsfeld is confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Defense.
U.S. Postal rates increase from 10 cents to 13 cents for a first class letter.

We bade the following people farewell:

Josephine Baker Mark Donahue

Larry Fine Moe Howard

Nellie Fox Generalissimo Francisco Franco

Euell Gibbons Lefty Grove

Susan Hayward Graham Hill

Ozzie Nelson Aristotle Onassis

Rod Serling Dimitri Shostakovich

Casey Stengel Emlen Tunnell

Thornton Wilder