Miss America 1978, the 51st

Miss America Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is judged on competition segments with scoring percentages: ''Priva ...

pageant, was held at the

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on September 10, 1977. The pageant was televised on

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, making this the last Miss America Pageant broadcast (as of 2022) by CBS, and the only one from 1966 through 1996 not televised by

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. The winner was Miss Ohio, Susan Perkins.

Results

Placements

References

External links

Miss America official website
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1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

1978 beauty pageants 1977 in New Jersey September 1977 in the United States Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey