1968 memories by Gwendolen Joan Ayers

I was watching television and saw President John Kennedy get assassinated. I remember civil rights marches and singing "We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome some day. Deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome some day." I remember seeing (televised) Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

Gwendolen Joan Ayers (nee Kenny)
Memory collected at the Salford Local History: 17-11-07

1968: duke kahanamoku's funeral

link to photographs taken by ian lind at duke kahanamoku's funeral (27/01/1968)
http://www.downwindproductions.com/funeral/funeral.html#

1968 memories: email address

the 1968 memories project has a new email address:
sixty08@googlemail.com

footage of duke kahanamoku

view an old hawaiian footage of duke kahanamoku at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8HcmIuU5U

source: www.youtube.com

manchester's boxing pride - 1968

manchester's boxing pride, alan tottoh, went to manchester royal infirmary to give a tonic to alan barker, secretary of the BOS boxing club, who is recovering from a cartilage operation. tottoh, a member of the BOS, donned his olympic outfit for mr barker's benefit and also won admiring attention from staff nurse arthurs and staff nurse stewart.

source: M.E.N. 20/09/1968

july open day

come + join us at the next victoria baths open day

01/06/07
12noon-4.00pm
hathersage road
longsight
manchester

0161 224 2020

map + directions
http://www.victoriabaths.org.uk/map.htm

duke kahanamoku (1890-1968)

welcome to the 1968 memories project

meet the locals is teaming up with the friends of victoria baths to set up an exciting reminiscence project focusing on the year 1968.

because of its worldwide significance, the year 1968 offers the ideal opportunity to develop content which will engage the wider community, as well as showing the overlaps between sports, politics, history, arts and culture. in 2008, the memories, information and artefacts collected through the project will be the foundation for a series of commemorative events.

main aims:
- to set up a reminiscence project focusing on the year 1968
- to produce resource packs to be used by schools, local organisations, visitors, etc.
- to organise events (such as reminiscence sessions, displays, discussions and film screenings)
- to establish multi-agency partnerships
- to target new audiences and promote volunteering
- to promote manchester’s multicultural heritage

further information info@victoriabaths.org.uk