Q. Who drew 10,000 people to Memorial Auditorium in September 1968?
A. Republican presidential nominee Richard Nixon made a campaign stop Sept. 27, 1968, in Chattanooga and spoke at the Memorial Auditorium.
According to the Sept. 28, 1968, Chattanooga News-Free Press, Nixon drew 5,000 people inside the auditorium and another 5,000 outside listening to his speech on specially installed speakers.
Nixon won Tennessee and the White House in November despite not winning Hamilton County, which was carried by American Independent Party nominee George Wallace.