1963 Top News Moments including Kennedy Assassination
The year’s No 1 story was the Kennedy assassination in Dallas as Lyndon Johnson became president aboard Air Force One. Also covered were civil rights violence and progress, the Profumo scandal in Britain, Viet Nam tensions, the Thresher sub disaster, and the Vatican’s Paul VI election.
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Capitol
St. Matthew's Cathedral
Arlington National Cemetery
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dallas
Jack Ruby
JFK
AP Top Ten Highlights Spark National Turmoil
Assassination of President Kennedy, civil rights crisis, Profumo affair scandal undermines British government, coup in Vietnam following Diem's death, Mme Nhu tours amid war. Nuclear submarine Thresher sinks with 129 aboard. Pope Paul succeeds John XXIII and reconvenes Vatican II. Test ban treaty signed. Supreme Court bans school prayers. Three miners trapped in Pennsylvania mine for nine days, two saved. Tensions rise as Russia and Red China near breaking point.
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Ecumenical Council
John 7
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
U. S. Senate
Kennedy
Diem
Mme. Nhu
Pope Paul
Pope John
Vatican Council
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Russia
Red China
Dutch Peace Corps Group Receives $9,000 Grant
The Carnegie Foundation awarded 21 Dutch volunteers nine thousand dollars to fund agrarian work in Cameroon as part of a Dutch Peace Corps mission. The group departed for Africa earlier this month.
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the Hague
Carnegie Foundation
Cameroon
Africa
Higher Output Tied To Taxes
Washington based National Planning Association predicts a 26 billion rise in 1964 GNP to about 610 billion if a tax cut is enacted early in 1994 retroactive to January 1. Colm notes unemployment will stay high, with gains led by retail and service sectors and local government.
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Washington
National Planning Association
Gerhard Colm
NPA
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Colm
Flat Top Ministers Set New Year Party
Ministers wives of the Flat Top Association plan an 11 a m New Year service on January 1 at First Baptist Church Northfork Rev H L Robinson pastor the wives in charge of devotions B A Taylor guest speaker Rev McKinley Raymore on the program with singing by association groups
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Flat Top Association
First Baptist Church
Northfork
H. L. Robinson
B. A. Taylor
McKinley Raymore
Stockholders Meet Slated
The Industries Incorporated annual stockholders meeting is set for 3 p.m. Tuesday January 14 in the Bluefield College Auditorium Tazewell County Virginia. President Charles L Harman says the board will consider a loan not exceeding 300000 from SBA or related agencies to refinance 320000 in existing debt. The loan would be secured by a deed of trust on county real estate and rents from the United Piece Dye Works lease. Proceeds will pay off 185000 Bluefield Area Development Corporation debt and 135000 from the S H Belcher Estate. The Dye Works employs about 225 with annual payroll near 1 million and rent of 53163.32 per year. refinanced debt may enable dividend payments on outstanding stock.
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of Industries, Incorporated
Bluefield College
Tazewell County
Charles L. Harman
Board of Directors
Small Business Administration
Harman
United Piece Dye Works
Bluefield Area Development Corporation
S. H. Belcher
Harmon
Journalist Patrick Burke dies in Las Vegas at 75
Patrick Emmet Burke, 75, veteran Western newspaper man and father of Frank Burke of Bluefield, died at his Las Vegas home Friday night. Former News Editor for the Review Journal, his career spanned Montana and other Northwestern points. Survived by son John P. Burke, a DOJ attorney in Washington, D C. Funeral plans incomplete. Bluefield connection noted as son Frank Burke traveled to Las Vegas for the funeral.
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Patrick Emmet Burke
Frank Burke
Ridgecrest Road
Bluefield
Las Vegas
Nev
The
Review Journal
Montana
Northwestern
John P. Burke
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
Optical Illusion Ruler Exercise With Questions
The task asks to answer four questions about a figure: whether the hat is taller than wide, if lines B and C bulge, which lines are parallel, and whether A or B is longer. The explanation notes perception of length is influenced by surrounding geometry and that the ruler observes one line at a time.
Soviets Launch 62 000 Ton Belgrade Tanker
Moscow reports Tass announced a 62,000 ton Soviet tanker was launched at Leningrad shipyards Saturday. The vessel is named Belgrade after Yugoslavia’s capital.
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Soviets
Moscow
Tass
Leningrad
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
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Christine Next
Mary Campbell
AP Newsfeatures
Associated Press
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Tex
John B. Connally Jr
Texas
Parkland Hospital
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Love Field
Striken
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
Medgar Evans
Mississippi
NAACP
Birmingham
16Th Street Baptist
Cambridge
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Cleve McDowell
Ole Miss
Meredith
George Wallace
Alabama
State National Guard
University of Alabama
Georgia
Prince Edward County
John Profumo
Harold Macmillan
House of Commons
Christine Keeler
Profumo
Christine
Evgeny Ivanov
Macmillan
Society Osteopath
Stephen Ward
Mandy Rice-Davies
Ward
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dien Diem
Maryland
Potter Stewart
David Fellin
Henry Throne
Hazleton
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nguyen Ngoc Tho
Atlantic
Boston
Pope Paul VI
John XXIII
Italy
Paul
Louis Bova
Fellin
Throne
Mao Tza Tung
Khrushchev
U. S
John F. Kennedy
U. S. Capitol
Caroline
London
Marylebone Magistrates Court
Bramwell Rd
Bird
W. Va
Beach
Colony Beach
Gulf of Mexico
Starfish
Longboat Key Country Club
Longboat Key
Sarasota, Florida
Dutch Peace Corp Group
Selina
Princeton Avenue
Westgate Shopping Center
the Planning Association
New Year Party
Planning Service
Bluefield, W.va
Matoake
W.va
Gilbert
War
Grundy, Va
Welch
Tug River
By Bob Brown
King & Filters
NEW Graham Pharmacy
Bluefield, Virginia
Kodak
Bluefield Camera Center
Bland Street
First National Bank
First National Bank of
West Virginia
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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