32 Enemies Missiles Found In Saigon Rocket Belt
U S soldiers found 32 enemy missiles and killed 26 guerrillas around Saigon. Rockets hit Tan Son Nhut airbase wounding an American and damaging a plane. The biggest cache was 22 rounds of 107 mm Chinese rockets northeast of the capital.
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Testimony on RFK Killing Reveals Range Shooting 12 Hours Before
Grand jury transcripts detail witnesses describing Sirhan Bishara Sirhan firing rapidly at a target range twelve hours before Kennedy's assassination. They report three bullets hit Kennedy, with Sirhan smiling as he fired, and identify the weapon as a .22 caliber revolver.
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Snow Flurries Reported at Mount Storm Power Site
Snow flurries fell off and on all day Thursday at Mount Storm West Virginia near the Virginia Electric and Power Company plant. Temperatures had been in the 80s earlier in the week, and officials confirmed the light snowfall.
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Diplomats See Effect of Red City Attacks
Western diplomats warn sustained rocket strikes on Saigon could derail the Paris peace talks. Harriman warned Thuy that terror attacks in Saigon may have serious consequences, while U.S. officials weigh possible actions and North Vietnamese responses as residents brace for further shelling.
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Huge black mass sighted near Tracy Minnesota
Jerry Chapman and his wife described a huge black mass seen on Highway 14 near Tracy as they returned from a root beer stand. They drove through Tracy toward Walnut Grove at high speed, then turned back after 10 minutes as rain and hail fell in southwestern Minnesota.
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Tornado kills 13 and destroys 60 homes in Tracy
A twister ripped through Tracy Minnesota killing 13 and injuring 11 with 60 homes destroyed and many missing. National Guard and Civil Defense assisted as 72 hospital admissions were logged and power, water, and phones were out.
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Group Presses LBJ to Veto Omnibus Crime Bill
Civil rights leader Walter Reuther and UAW chief Roy Wilkins urged President Johnson to veto the omnibus crime-control bill. House Republican Leader Gerald Ford urged action as Congress sent the measure to the White House after Kennedy's assassination. Reuther and Wilkins condemned provisions overturning Supreme Court rights and authorizing wiretaps, saying gun controls are insufficient.
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Secret agents cast grim look at presidential campaign
Security forces tightened around campaign events as George Wallace, Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan drew crowds. Agents searched bags, locked doors, and lined entrances from Atlanta to Tulsa while governors pressed for influence at the Republican governors meeting in Oklahoma.
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Stassen Outlines 1968 Presidency Bid in Minnesota
Harold Stassen returned to Duluth for a Minnesota Republican convention talk outlining his plan to end the Vietnam War and curb media violence. He proposed a two year moratorium on portrayals of lawless violence on television and film to study effects on children. Secret Service and city police provided security as he spoke.
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Hospital Releases Partial Tornado Victims List
Tracy Minnesota tornado fatalities include Nancy Vaske age 2 and six women aged 30s to 60s. Hospital report lists 21 of 22 Tracy residents hospitalized overnight, naming Edna Gannett Marie O Hear n Gannett and others among the injured as Omer Eischens confirms victims.
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Spock Antidraft Conspiracy Case Goes to Jury
The jury in the antidraft conspiracy trial of Dr. Benjamin Spock and four others received the case. Judge Ford said conspiracy is the crucial issue and no defense exists for willful law violation on moral grounds. The defendants include Yale Chaplain Coffin and Harvard graduate Ferber, among others.
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Boston
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U.S
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Ford
Yale
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Michael Ferber
Harvard
Mitchell Goodman
Marcus Raskin
Washington
U.S. Atty
John Wall
Spock
Death toll update as Minnesota highway toll rises to 345
Belated report of the death of Pequot Lakes man Raymond Cline 60, who died April 30 five days after his car ran off a Crow Wing County road north of Brainerd, boosts Minnesota 1968 highway toll to 345, compared with 347 a year ago today.
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Brainerd
Rockefeller Says GOP Conference Not Time to Seek Support
AP reports New York Governor Rockefeller states the Republican governors conference is not the time to press for presidential support from statehouse colleagues. In Tulsa the AP notes not time for such expression. in Paris police surround the Odeon Theater as students depart after a month-long occupation. in Tel Aviv Egyptian and Israeli forces clash near the Suez Canal, wounding one Israeli in a two hour twenty minute duel.
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Dodd Calls Pearson a Monster in Senate Clash
Sen Thomas J Dodd labeled columnist Drew Pearson a monster a devil and a molester of children whose arrest records were destroyed in a Senate confrontation The remarks came as Kiesinger recalled his ambassador from Moscow and planned talks with U S British and French leaders on the Berlin crisis
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