Soviet Press Pictures Claim U S Fear After Kennedy Assassination
Pravda dispatches from New York New Delhi Paris and Paris quote Western reports casting Oswald as anti Soviet and influenced by right wing groups. The Soviet view shifts from defense of Oswald to blaming fascist like groups while noting fear and cover up in Dallas after Kennedy's death.
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Boris Strelnikov
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Fort Worth
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New Delhi
The
Patriot
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John Birch Society
Ku Klux Klan
U. S
Kennedy
Venezuelan election sees huge turnout amid threats and violence
In Caracas and across Venezuela a 95 to 96 percent turnout was reported as Raul Leoni led unofficial returns while threats from the Castroite underground and attacks by snipers and bombs occurred. Police maintained security with about 50,000 officers deployed. 3.369 million voters registered, all citizens over 18 required to vote.
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Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Castroite
Raul Leoni
Betancourt
Democratic Action Party
Leoni
Armed Forces
Armed Forces For National Liberation
FALN
South Viet Guards Defend Garrison To The Last Man
Holiday traffic deaths near Thanksgiving exceeded by holiday period. By late Sunday, highway crashes caused 459 fatalities, with two Texas crashes killing nine people and Ft Hood soldiers among road victims near Waco. AP notes 106-hour non holiday period had 477 deaths.
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National Safety Council
Texas
Brunet
Tex
Ft. Hood
Waco
Venezuelan voters rally as turmoil and threats shadow election
Venezuelans queued to choose a new president and congress while reports described a downtown Caracas attack on UP offices injuring a photographer. Leaders from West Germany Italy and Great Britain planned visits to the U S in coming months to meet President Johnson.
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Caracas
Congress
East Germans Seek Asylum in Istanbul Takeover
Five East Germans jumped a Communist cruise ship in the Bosphorus and requested political asylum in Turkey. Police said they left the ship during a Varna trip on the Black Sea coast, the second defection of Communist bloc tourists in Istanbul in two weeks after 21 Poles fled a Soviet vessel on Nov 16.
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Turkey
Bosphorus
Varna
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Tallest Woman Dies in Carolina at 6 Foot 8
Mrs. Clere Gill Morris, 78, once billed as the world’s tallest woman, died Sunday at the Masonic and Eastern Star Home in Greensboro. A native of Orillia, Ontario, she traveled with Ringling Brothers Circus, lived at the Masonic Home 11 years, and is survived by no immediate family. Funeral set for Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Masonic Home Chapel with burial in the home cemetery.
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N. C
Clere Gill Morris
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Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Orillia
Ontario
Canada
Masonic
Masonic Home
Barnam
Radio's Phil Baker Dies in Copenhagen
Copenhagen reports the death of entertainer Phil Baker at 67 from an illness friends call hopeless. He originated radio's $64 Question program, a precursor to large money giveaways.
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Radio
Phil Baker
Copenhagen
Civil guards fend off large Viet Cong attack near Tay Ninh
Sixty civil guards with wives and children fought a nighttime Viet Cong assault on Bau Cao post north of Tay Ninh. Forty two guards died, 15 wounded, three missing, and about 20 women and children perished. Reinforcements arrived at noon as up to 50 Viet Cong may have fallen. The post withstood part of the fort through the night amid heavy shelling.
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South Viet Nam
Bau Cao
Tay Ninh
Here
U.S
Amor
Terrorist attack hits UPI Caracas offices
Terrorists fired on the United Press International offices in downtown Caracas during Venezuela’s election period. Carl Warner, a UPI photographer from Miami, was wounded in the chest as street fighting lit up Candelaria Plaza. Other UPI staff, including James Whelan, Richard Eder, and Bernard Collier, were inside but unharmed. The shooting disrupted power at the ninth floor headquarters.
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Venezuela
United Press International
Carl Warner
UPI
Warner
Miami
Fla
James Whelan
Richard Eder
New York Times
Bernard Collier
New York Herald Tribune
Candelaria Plaza
Plaza
Cartoonist Hatlo Dies at 65 in Carmel
James Hatlo the creator of They'll Do It Every Time and Little Ladine died Sunday at 65 from a heart attack. He had been ill for years and his syndicated cartoons appeared in more than 700 newspapers worldwide at Carmel Community Hospital California.
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Sunset News Observer Daily
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Roads Clear With Icy Patches In WV and VA
Snow lingered in West Virginia and Virginia as an inch of snow coated the area. State police reported all roads open aside from a few icy spots where melted snow froze on the highways. The weatherman warns of continued cold and possible flurries today.
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West Virginia
Virginia
West German Italian and British leaders to visit US
The White House says Chancellor Erhard of West Germany, President Segni of Italy, and Prime Minister Douglas-Home of Britain will visit the United States in late December to meet President Johnson. Talks will cover Atlantic alliance issues and broader matters of common interest. Erhard’s visit was a rescheduled Thanksgiving plan from Kennedy era.
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White House
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Italy
Great Britain
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Johnson
Andrew T. Hatcher
Atlantic Alliance
Ludwig Erhard
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Texas
Antonio Segni
Alec Douglas Home
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
Pierre Salinger
Hatcher
Erhard
Douglas- Home
Kennedy
Four Virginia highway deaths raise toll on 1963 holiday weekend
Old Dominion reports four traffic fatalities Sunday, lifting Virginia's toll to 897 for the year and 17 for the Thanksgiving period. Victims include Edward Miskell 20 and Sheila Firman from Hampton Poquoson on I 64, George C. Morris 36 on the Virgil I Grissom Bridge, and Connell Tellitt 58 of Elizabeth City on Virginia 168. Two generals from Continental Army Command were treated and released after a two car crash. One hit and run on Virginia 168 killed Tellitt.
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Edward Miskell
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George P. Duncan
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Oren E. Hurlbut
Mt. Monroe
Chesapeake
Connell Tellitt
Elizabeth City
N. C
Tellitt
A. R. Bruce
William ©. Miller Jr
Madison
Charleston
U.S. 119
Rock Creek
James Lambert
Huntington
Alt. W.va
Lambert
Strangler Slays Young Actress Kupcinet in Hollywood
Hollywood AP report says 23 year old actress Karyn Kupcinet was found dead from manual strangulation in her living room. Autopsy by Dr. Harold Kade cites asphyxia and a fractured hyoid bone. investigators, 14 in count, probe with no suspects yet and question friends in TV and film circles including boyfriend Andrew Prine. Kupcinet, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet’s daughter, had acted on stage and in TV shows such as Hawaiian Eye.
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Chicago
Irv Kupcinet
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Karyn Kupcinet
Friends
George Walsh
Harold Kade
Los Angeles County
Kade
Walsh
Sheriff's Office
Andrew Prine
NBC
Karyn Kupcitet
Six Killed In Glenville Crash On U S 33 West Virginia
Six people died in a head on collision on U S 33 near Glenville with one survivor in each car. The victims include Russell Ray Richards 30 Wilda Richards 30 Henry Ray Richards 9 Newton Carr Peterson 56 Dorothy Peterson 44 and Larry Allen Peterson 19. Two survivors Linda Lou Peterson 14 and Dwayne Richards 6. The toll rose to 15 for the Thanksgiving weekend and 388 for the year with other fatalities reported in Gallipolis Ohio and Brickport area incidents.
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West Virginia
U.S. 33
Here
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Wilda
Henry Ray
Newton Carr Peterson
Dorothy
Larry Allen
Linda Lou Peterson
Dwayne Richards
Linda Lou
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Mason County
Gallipolis
Ohio
Point Pleasant
Oak Hill
Linda Sauer
Marvin
Danny F. Martin
Lewis Delano Martin
Search Ends For Missing Yacht Passengers Off South Carolina
Coast Guard suspended a search for three missing aboard the yacht Judy after it sank in 30 foot waves off the South Carolina coast. Owner Armand Colberg, his wife, and James Gillespie were listed as missing. Only survivor Robert Stanton and body of George Donald Kidd were recovered. Stanton said Colberg and Kidd lashed together as the vessel sank. fumes likely felled Mrs. Colberg and Gillespie.
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Judy
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Armand Colberg
Lakewood
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James Gillespie
Virginia Beach
Robert Stanton
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Petrel
George Donald Kidd
Paramount
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Colberg
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Oswald's Mother Defends Son Innocence
Mrs Marguerite Oswald declares her son Lee Harvey Oswald innocent of the assassination of President Kennedy. She says she has received about 400 letters from the United States and abroad offering sympathy and material help. Oswald was killed by a Dallas nightclub operator after his arrest for the murder.
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