Civil rights activists dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members to protest racists supporting the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California
US B-52 bomber takes off from Anderson Air Force Base heading for North Vietnam. After a 72 hour ultimatum to Hanoi to negotiate went unanswered in Dec. 1972, President Nixon unleashed 11 days of 24/7 air strikes against North Vietnam's largest cities.