Title Info: Governor Daniel J. Evans [Scrapbook 14], Jan. – Jun. 1968

This scrapbook covers Daniel J. Evans governorship in the State of Washington, January through June 1968. There are 286 pages in this scrapbook, and pages are intermixed with two different sizes: 14 x 11.5 in. or 13 x 10.75 in. Dominant subjects include the Wives Prayer Breakfast with President Lyndon B. Johnson, Rainier School investigation, State Department of Institutions probe, Charles H. Martin resignation, 1968 re-election campaign, Forward Thrust Program, Evans-Leland rift, Hanford irrigation, State Multiservice Center, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, fishing, opening of Tacoma Community College, 1968 Republican National Convention keynote address nomination, visit to White House, Orient Trade Mission, accreted lands, North Cascades National Park, King of Norway’s visit to Seattle, Western Governors Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, Richard Nixon, Vice Presidential candidacy, Dan Evans high school diploma, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Conference of Republican Governors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, incarceration of Dick Gregory, Westhaven State Park. Pages may include photographs, newspaper and article clippings, correspondence, speeches, promotional materials, memorabilia, and ephemera. This scrapbook is volume 14 of 40.

Search this scrapbook by entering keywords into the search box at the upper right of the browse page. Dominant subjects, names, and genres have been indexed.

The scrapbook can be browsed page by page. Pages are numbered as they fall in the scrapbook (ex: “p003” is page 3 of the scrapbook). Some pages include overlapping or folded items. In these cases, the pages are imaged so that each item can be seen. Items on a page are named a, b, c, and so on (ex: “p003_a” is item a on page 3 of the scrapbook). Some items include multiple pages, such as brochures, booklets, and periodicals. These items are given an item name, followed by a page number (ex: “p003_a_08” is page 8 of item a on page 3 of the scrapbook).

The Daniel J. Evans Scrapbooks cover the years 1956-1976 and 1983-1988. There are 40 scrapbooks in this collection.