| Winner: | Debra Dene Barnes |
| Represented: | Kansas |
| Date: | September 9, 1967 |
| Presenters: | Bert Parks |
| Venue: | Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Broadcaster: | NBC |
| Before: | 1967 |
| Next: | 1969 |
Miss America 1968, the 41st Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 9, 1967[1] on NBC Network.
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| Miss America 1968 | ||
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| 2nd Runner-Up |
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| 3rd Runner-Up |
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| 4th Runner-Up |
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| Top 10 |
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| Lifestyle and Fitness |
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| Talent |
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| Miss Congeniality |
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| Non-finalist Talent |
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| Alabama | Becky Alford | Birmingham | 20 | Vocal, "Ain't This a Pretty Night" from Susannah | ||||
| Alaska | Penny Thomasson | Spenard | 19 | Recitation & Song, "Let's Go to Alaska" | ||||
| Arizona | Bea Willis | Phoenix | 19 | Vocal, "Wouldn't it be Loverly" from My Fair Lady | ||||
| Arkansas | Sharon Evans | North Little Rock | 20 | Vocal/Dance, "Mame" from Mame | Miss Congeniality Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | |||
| California | Karen Pursell | Lindsay | 22 | Vocal, "Much More" from The Fantasticks | ||||
| Colorado | Tia Tyler | Golden | 20 | Dramatic Reading, "Queendom Sequence" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Miss Congeniality Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| Connecticut | Diane Bylo | Norwalk | 21 | Vocal, "Heaven Hop" | ||||
| Delaware | Susan Alice Levens | Dover | 18 | Vocal, "Who Will Buy" from Oliver! | ||||
| Florida | Dawn Cashwell | Pensacola | 22 | Baton Twirling, "Blue Tango" | 4th runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Contestant at National Sweetheart 1963 representing Georgia | |
| Georgia | Sandra McRee | Atlanta | 19 | Classical Vocal, "Caro Mio Ben" | ||||
| Hawaii | Robin Engel | Honolulu | 21 | Piano, "Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse" by Aaron Copland | Sister of Georgia Engel | |||
| Idaho | Kristine Phillips | Rupert | 19 | Organ Medley, "Tico Tico", "Dark Eyes", & "The Shadow of Your Smile" | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | |||
| Illinois | Kathryn Myers | Aurora | 20 | Dramatic Reading from Ion | ||||
| Indiana | Mary Haglund | Indianapolis | 19 | Figure Skating, "Swan Lake" & "The Shadow of Your Smile" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | ||
| Iowa | Lynda Jean Formanek | Belle Plaine | 23 | Character Portrayal from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Top 10 | |||
| Kansas | Deborah Dene Barnes | Moran | 20 | Piano, "Born Free" | Winner | Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award | ||
| Kentucky | Jo-Anne Clark | Louisville | 19 | Vocal/Guitar, "Unchained Melody" | ||||
| Louisiana | Genevieve Del Gallo | New Orleans | 21 | Classical Vocal, "Un Bel Dì" from Madama Butterfly | Top 10 | |||
| Maine | Linda Christine Livanda | Cape Elizabeth | 19 | Original Recitation & Dance, "Dance of the Decades" | ||||
| Maryland | Ingrid Christine Larson | Ellicott City | 20 | Piano, "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum" | Top 10 | |||
| Massachusetts | Maria Lynn Chaffee | Waltham | 18 | Ballet & Jazz Toe Dance, "Do I Hear a Waltz?", "Georgy Girl", & "One of Those Songs" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| Michigan | Toni Jo Abbenante | East Grand Rapids | 19 | Dramatic Reading, "Then You'll Remember Me" by Grace Atkinson | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| Minnesota | Charlotte Sims | St. Paul | 19 | Acrobatic Dance, "Ebb Tide" | Top 10 | |||
| Mississippi | Joan Myers | Forest | 20 | Speech & Display of Original Art, "Doctor Zhivago" | 1st runner-up | |||
| Missouri | Ronnee Brunk | St. Louis | 19 | Vocal, "I Feel a Song Coming On" | ||||
| Montana | Linda Rhein | Helena | 20 | Original Piano Composition, "What the West Contributed to America" | ||||
| Nebraska | Terry Lee Schmidt | Lincoln | 18 | Drawing & Reading, "What is a Girl?" by Alan Beck | ||||
| Nevada | Vicky Landeck | Reno | 18 | Dramatic Reading, "Ruth, the Moabitess" by N.A. Truell | ||||
| New Hampshire | Sheila Scott | North Hampton | 19 | Vocal, "We Need a Little Christmas" | Miss Congeniality | |||
| New Jersey | Linda Ann Wilmer | Laurel Springs | 18 | Classical Vocal, "Quando m'en vò" from La bohème | ||||
| New Mexico | Rosemary Brown | Carlsbad | 20 | Vocal, "This is My Song" | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| New York | Kari Pedersen | Staten Island | 21 | Classical Vocal, "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| North Carolina | Sarah Stedman | Asheboro | 22 | Piano, Fantaisie-Impromptu | Non-finalist Talent Award | |||
| North Dakota | Wanda Lou Lowry | Bismarck | 18 | Classical Vocal, "Je veux vivre" from Roméo et Juliette | ||||
| Ohio | Pamela Robinson | Dayton | 22 | Vocal, "Oh, to be a Movie Star" from The Apple Tree | Previously Ohio's Junior Miss 19633rd runner-up at America's Junior Miss 1963 | |||
| Oklahoma | Carolyn Denton | Muskogee | 19 | Vocal, "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" | ||||
| Oregon | Christine Beach | Pendleton | 18 | Vocal, "Just You Wait" from My Fair Lady | ||||
| Pennsylvania | Doris Ann Lausch | Lancaster | 20 | Vocal, "Love in a Home" from Li'l Abner | ||||
| Rhode Island | Marilyn Cocozza | North Providence | 19 | Piano/Vocal, "I Have Confidence" from The Sound of Music | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Previously Rhode Island's Junior Miss 1966 | |
| South Carolina | Peggy White | Fountain Inn | 23 | Organ Medley, "Spanish Flea" & "Flight of the Bumblebee" | ||||
| South Dakota | Sally Jo Iverson | Branden | 20 | Original Reading, "Tomorrow's Game" | ||||
| Tennessee | Linda Workman | Martin | 18 | Vocal, "I Don't Care" | Mother of Miss Tennessee 1995, Alison Shumate | |||
| Texas | Molly Grubb | Fort Worth | 20 | Ballet en Pointe, "La Périchole" | ||||
| Utah | Patricia Soutas | Salt Lake City | 20 | Magic Act & Original Vocal, "Everyone Has Magic" | ||||
| Vermont | Kathleen Rowley | Williston | 19 | Vocal Presentation of an Original Song, "The Bigness of Being Small" | ||||
| Virginia | Barbara Yost | Roanoke | 19 | Piano, "Grande valse brillante in E-flat Major" | ||||
| Washington | Lynda Kilp | White Center | 19 | Vocal Medley, "One Boy" & "A Lot of Livin' to Do" from Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| West Virginia | Helen Morgan | Lewisburg | 19 | Toe & Acrobatic Dance, "Teakwood Nocturne" by Roger Williams | ||||
| Wisconsin | Barbara Burk Baugh | Brookfield | 20 | Vocal, "Mira" from Carnival! | 2nd runner-up | |||
| Wyoming | Patricia Martínez | Torrington | 18 | Classical Vocal, "Les Filles de Cadix" |