November 5, 1968. Election returns.

1.  From our companion blog, Today In Wyoming's History for November 5:

November 5

1968  Richard M. Nixon elected President of the United States.

Wyoming voted for Nixon, as it has for every Republican Presidential candidate after Lyndon Johnson.

1968  Republican John Wold elected as Congressman from Wyoming.  The Casper based oilman served one term as he gave up this seat to run unsuccessfully against incumbent Senator Gale McGee.

2. Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn became the first African American woman elected to Congress, running on a Democratic ticket and defeating the heavily favored Liberal Party (but backed by the Republicans) candidate James L. Farmer, Jr.  In 1972 she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination.

3.  Luis A. Ferre was elected Governor of Puerto Rico on a plat from seeking statehood.

October 31, 1968 Peace talks, bombing halts, UFOs, and elections.

1.  Lyndon Johnson announced that actions over North Vietnam would cease the following day, citing progress in the Paris Peace talks.  Air operations had been going on over North Vietnam since 1965.

 F-105s bombing and being lead by a B-66.

2.  The University of Colorado's UFO Project issued a report that UFO's were bumpkis and that further pondering them was a waste of time.  It's conclusion that "Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby." was guaranteed not to be accepted by those who held contrary opinions in spite of the evidence.

3.  The Harris Poll revealed that Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey was within 3% points of Nixon's 40% as the country headed to the polls.  George Wallace was commanding 16% and 7% hadn't made up their minds.