On September 7, 1968, a group of women gathered outside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ to protest the Miss America pageant. For Storied 1968: Miss America Pageant Protest we spoke with former Miss Minnesota 1968, Mary Williams Jasicki, who was a contestant in that year's Miss America Pageant. In this episode, we hear her personal experience as a contestant and what it was like to be in the pageant when protests were going on outside. Photo credit: Bev Grant/Getty Images and Alix Kates Shulm

Joan Crawford in a commercial during the telecast of the 1968 Miss America Beauty Pageant. This footage was made possible here by the efforts of footage researcher "Billie Cassin." This footage, and many other items from "Billie Cassin," is available at the direct link below: http://www.theconcludingchapterofcrawford.com/forsale.html | Joan Crawford: The Concluding Chapter Of Crawford

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