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says union will ask special session; Comr Allen opposed, statement with state and city officials including Lindsay; Rockefeller says he will defer to Lindsay and Allen; NAACP opposes session
T Wicker on campaign wind-up and outlook; final Harris poll finds Humphrey leads for 1st time, 43 to 40% for Nixon and 13% for Wallace with 4% undecided; Nixon campaign mgr Mitchell scores poll; Harris and Gallup concede 3-4% margin of error and neither makes prediction; another factor for uncertainty is difficulty of translating popular votes into state-by-state electoral vote; ABC poll gives Nixon 278 electoral votes; Wicker notes factors for Humphrey's late surge
Annual meeting
ATLANTA, Nov. 4 -- Using virtually the same speech he began with more than a year ago, former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama ended his third-party Presidential campaign here today with a familiar forecast of victory.
US officials say that NLF, in recent statement, underlines what apparently is Communist objective at Paris peace talks: overthrow of S Vietnamese Govt and creation of regime friendly to N Vietnam; NLF statement and platform made pub in '67 discussed
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 1968, covering November 5, 1968.
Big Brother And The Holding Company
Jose Feliciano
The Rascals
The Chambers Brothers
Iron Butterfly
1968Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director and businessman (died 2013)[†]
Ricardo Aníbal Fort Campa was an Argentine socialite, entrepreneur and television director. Although his career lasted four years, Fort was one of the most popular personalities in his country.
1968Seth Gilliam, American actor[†]
Seth Gilliam is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Ellis Carver on The Wire, Clayton Hughes on Oz, Dr. Alan Deaton on Teen Wolf, and Father Gabriel Stokes on The Walking Dead.
1968Sam Rockwell, American actor[†]
Sam Rockwell is an American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for playing troubled police officer Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). He was nominated in the same category for playing George W. Bush in the political satire Vice (2018). His portrayal of Bob Fosse in the miniseries Fosse/Verdon (2019) earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination, while his performance in the Broadway revival of American Buffalo (2022) garnered him a Tony nomination.
1968Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.[†]
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and also as a representative and senator from California. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
In 1968, the world population was approximately 3,545,187,251 people[†]