NASA ends Mercury to push Gemini toward the Moon
Washington AP The National Aeronautics and Space Administration closes Mercury manned flights to focus on Project Gemini. NASA plans a late 1950s to early 1960s Gemini schedule including a December or January suborbital test, a three month later partial or full orbital test, and a late summer to fall full unmanned orbital flight followed by a two-man crewed mission. Gemini will test tethering, rendezvous, and spacewalking concepts ahead of an Apollo moon mission.
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James F. Webb
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Eisenhower Calls Moon Race Spending Nuts at Kennedy Meeting
Former President Eisenhower, during a visit to the White House, decried the $40 billion effort to land a man on the moon as fiscally wrong and urged a balance between economy and defense. He pressed for voting rights access and discussed civil rights with Kennedy, but details were not disclosed. He spoke at a breakfast with 160 House Republicans and had a heart checkup at Walter Reed.
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Andrew T. Hatcher
Congress
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Church State Crisis In Viet Nam Still Simmering
In Saigon a temporary truce forms amid Buddhist protests after Quang Duc's self immolation. Police ease bans on pagoda access as monks from Hue arrive to meet a government committee with Vice President Tho and state ministers.
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Xa Lai
Ngo Dinh Diem
Thich Tinh Khen
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Diem
ARA Extension Rudely Beaten
The House defeated a Kennedy administration plan to authorize 450 million more in loans and grants for the Area Redevelopment Administration. Opponents blamed mishandling and unexpended funds, while supporters argued the program had gained momentum and needed continued funding.
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House
Kennedy
Area Redevelopment Administration
Kennedy Eisenhower meet on civil rights shows tense mood
President Kennedy met with former President Eisenhower in the White House for over an hour to discuss civil rights as Southern senators led by Richard Russell attack Kennedy’s proposals. Johnson attended the meeting, which focused solely on civil rights and federal power amid rising tensions.
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Richard B. Russell
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Russell
Congress
Silcox Receives 28 Year Prison Term
Richard B. Silcox of Richlands Virginia was sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of Hubert Stump in December. The case arose from a shooting in Stump’s car on Virginia Highway 67 at Big Creek and subsequent dragging of the body as Silcox fled. Deputy Dempsey Smith arrested him at Claypool Hill.
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Virginia
Hubert Stump
Tazewell County
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Stump
Big Creek
Dempsey Smith
Claypool Hill
Evers Shot in Jackson Civil Rights Leader Is Killed
Medgar W. Evers 37, Mississippi NAACP field director, was shot in the back outside his home in Jackson. Investigators recovered a .30 caliber bolt action rifle near the scene and police pursued three men who fled. The killing drew sharp national condemnation from President Kennedy and Attorney General Kennedy as federal authorities joined the hunt.
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White House
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Danville forms committee to ease racial demonstrations
Danville Virginia mayor Julian R. Stinson announced a three white business leaders committee to try resolve a week of Negro demonstrations. The panel will not negotiate with demonstrators and may lead to a bi racial group. Police arrested eight for trespassing as protesters crowded downtown and at restaurants. James Forman was among those charged.
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National Tension and Space Plans Shadow Era Headlines
The article blends shocks from a Civil Rights era Mississippi shooting attempt on Medgar Evers with civil unrest at the University of Alabama. It notes U.S. Gemini space program aims and Ike’s quarrel over a 40 billion dollar moon project. It cites cabinet resignations in Britain, South Vietnam church state strife, urban renewal in Bluefield, and a jokey critique of Cleopatra by AP.
Four Cabinet ministers reportedly consider resigning over Profumo scandal
London AP reports Health Minister Enoch Powell Home Secretary Henry Brooke Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle and Housing Minister Sir Keith Joseph weighing moral protest against Prime Minister Macmillan. Powell may resign before Commons security debates amid Profumo affair fallout.
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Keith Joseph
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Stephen Ward
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