Opening Ceremonies
Held just two days after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the opening ceremonies for the fair were attended (under heavy security) by U.S. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson and Texas Governor John Connally, both of whom received death threats.
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“The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their lives and cares,
Are carried downwards by thy flood,
And lost in following years.
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.”
—Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
“Despite compelling evidence that she will be working at 35, by choice or necessity, today’s 21-year-old woman has difficulty looking beyond the ceremonies of her marriage and her babies’ christenings.”
—Marilyn Bender (b. 1925)