December 20, 1968 was a cold night in the area of Bonisha, California.

Bonisha is located just southeast of Vallejo, California.

It's a small town along the southern edge of Salona County, which extends from the area

just north of San Francisco and Oakland, all the way to the southwestern tip of Sacramento.

Salona County is almost the forgotten stepchild of the San Francisco Bay Area, with the surrounding

counties and metropolitan areas constantly overshadowing it, in terms of not only population,

but cultural impact.

At the time, the area mainly consisted of military members and their families, most of

whom worked at the nearby Mayor Island Naval Shipyard, or at Travis Air Force Base, which

was smack dab in the center of Salona County.

It was on this night, December 20, 1968, that the temperature dipped down to nearly 20 degrees.

If you've ever lived in the Bay Area, you know that these type of lows aren't usual,

so this was particularly cold for the roughly 7,000 souls that lived in Bonisha at the time.

It was a brisk and chilly Friday night, which began with the simplest of circumstances.

A young man preparing to take a young woman out on their very first date.

David Arthur Faraday was 17 years old, and he was a senior at Vallejo High School, yet

big plans for the future, and he hoped to become a teacher in the coming years.

Betty Lou Jensen was 16 years old, a junior at Bonisha's Hogan High School.

She was a very talented artist, who was still trying to figure out her future goals.

She was hoping to earn an art scholarship, which would allow her to go to a prestigious

university where she could harness her creativity, but she still had over a year and a half

to figure all that out.

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