Judge frees Oswald guns from federal custody
US District Judge Joe Estes ordered the Italan rifle and a .38 pistol linked to the Kennedy assassination released from court custody after an appellate ruling. The weapons remain in federal custody at the National Archives under a law protecting government property introduced before the Warren Commission.
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Tex
John F. Kennedy
Texas
John Connally
U.S. Dist
Joe F. Estes
Estes
Jee Harvey Oswald
U. S. Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
Oswald
J. D. Tippet
National Archives
Warren Commisson
Kennedy
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Hawaiʻi students select beauty queen by multiethnic vote
University of Hawai students vote in a beauty queen pageant with divisions by Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Neuro, Caucasian and Eurasian groups, first selecting candidates in each ethnicity and then choosing the overall winner.
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Honolulu
University of Hawai
Czechoslovakia pledges border defense amid Soviet tensions
Czechoslovakia vowed to defend its borders against direct Soviet intervention as Dubcek appeals for national backing for continued liberalization. Soviet notes warning against “imperialism” and Warsaw Pact troop movements are reported, with Yugoslavia offering support and the U S remaining noncommittal.
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UPI
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Communist Party
Alexander Dubeck
Czech Reform Movement
Dubcek
Soviet Union
Hungary
CTK
Warsaw
Poland
Bulgaria
East Germany
U.S.S.R
Antonin Novotny
Novotny
Two Texans Reported Killed in Vietnam War
The Defense Department released the names of two Texas servicemen who died recently in Vietnam. Marine Pvt Leroy Wood, son of Mr and Mrs Dewey Wood of Woodville, and Army Spec 4 Sam S Allison, husband of Mrs Helen C Allison of Big Spring.
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UPI
Defense Department
Vietnam
Marine Pvt
Leroy Wood
Dewey Wood
Woodville
Army
Sam S. Allison
Helen C. Allison
Big Spring
Building at AFFB To Be Sold by Bid
A sealed bid sale of a temporary building at Amarillo Air Force Base will be conducted Aug by Col H D Sutterlin and the Defense Surplus Sales Office of Fort Worth. The 24 by 50 foot structure houses a central heating room and a wooden drying tower.
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Amarillo Air Force Base
H. D. Sutterlin
Defense Surplus Sales Office of
Fort Worth
R. C. Corbyn
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