Jury Finds Jack Ruby Legally Sane in Sanity Trial
A Dallas jury quickly ruled Jack Ruby sane after a 50 minute testimony phase. Ruby, 55, testified briefly defending his mental capacity while the court prepared to charge the jury. The case could affect an appeal of his 1963 Oswald murder conviction.
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Ruby
Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Sol Dana
Detroit
Louis Holland
John Calahan
Bill Decker
Ralph Weaver
Soviet-Built Jet Knocked From Sky
Navy Cmdr Harold Marr told of a verbatim air battle over Vietnam in which he and wingman Phil Vampatella engaged four MiGs. Marr said he downed one Soviet-built jet with a Sidewinder and hit another, then damaged a second before returning to base.
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Navy
Harold R. Marr
Roseburg
Ore
Saigon
J.G
Phil Vampatella
Islip Terrace
N.Y
Hancock
Haiphong
Marr
Vampatella
Man Suffered Knife Wound in Mercer County Incident
A 31 year old man from Bluefield suffered a deep cut to the left leg in a knifing in Hurricane Hollow off Airport Road around 3 pm Monday. William Thomason was treated at a Princeton hospital. Dempsey Skeens, 29, of the county section, was jailed on maiming charges, awaiting a preliminary hearing after being taken into custody near Skeens' residence. Troopers Little and Lucas investigated.
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Rt. 2
Bluefield
Mercer County
Hurricane Hollow
Airport Road
William Thomason
Princeton
Dempsey Junior Skeens
Charles Little
Little
Thomason
Skeens
Justice of the Peace
Jim Belcher
E. C. Lucas
Buchanan Miner Hurt in Slate Fall at Conaway Mine
A 40 year old Buchanan County miner Noah Van Dyke of Grundy was seriously injured in a slate fall at the Jacks Creek Coal Company mine near Conaway around 1 p.m. Monday. He sustained a fractured pelvis and other injuries and remained in serious condition at Grundy hospital.
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Buchanan County
Conaway
Noah van Dyke
Rt. 2
Grundy
Home Creek
van Dyke
Jacks Creek Coal Company
Puerto Rican Section Quiet After Fracas
In a Chicago neighborhood quiet returned after a Sunday clash between police and a 1000-strong mob. Sixteen were hurt including a officer and two civilians. three police cars burned and over 200 windows broken. Police withdrew as community leaders urged calm and warned of possible repeats.
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Chicago
Northwest Side
Association of Puerto Rican Organizations
Negro Boy Indicted On 5 Counts In Death
In Newport News a 17 year old African American youth was indicted by a Corporation Court grand jury on five counts in the kidnap murder of Mae Richardson a 45 year old white woman found tied to a tree near her workplace. Indictments include murder rape abduction armed robbery and grand larceny of an auto. The court ordered Carl Edward Kearney held at Central State Hospital for observation. Death attributed to strangulation.
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Newport News
Corporation Court
Mae Richardson
Douglas Smith
Carl Edward Kearney
Central State Hospital
Petersburg
Communists Lose Regiment as U S Forces Sweep Kontum
U S paratroopers from the 101st Airborne moved into enemy positions in the Kontum highlands after a B52 strike, with about 37 North Vietnamese dead found in the sweep. Two U S planes were lost and four airmen listed as missing as operations continued against a withdrawing force.
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South Viet Nam
U. S
Guam
101St Airborne Division
North Viet Nam
U.S
Cmdr
Harold R. Marr
Roseburg
Ore
Central Highlands
Hawthorne
Kontum
Laos
Viet Nam
Kontum Highlands
Supreme Court tightens police questioning rules
The Supreme Court 5-4 restricted custodial interrogations, requiring warn ing of the right to remain silent and to counsel before questioning. A dissent warned the ruling risks freeing criminals, and the decision applies to Escobedo era cases including a California holdup slaying and other California and New York robberies.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pelled
California
New York
Arizona
Harlan
Byron R. White
Hugo L. Black
William 0. Douglas
William, J. Brennan Jr
Abe Fortas
Warren
Potter Stewart
Harlan and
White
Tom C
Clark
John T. Gojack
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
House
Escobedo
High Court
Towns Vote in Virginia County Council Elections
Voters in four Tazewell County towns and five Giles County towns go to the polls Tuesday from 6 am to 7 pm local time. Richlands lists four candidates for four seats and Cedar Bluff has ten for six posts. Bluefield Pocahontas and area towns feature multiple candidates for mayor and council with several unopposed incumbents.
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Tazewell County
Bluefield
Pocahontas
Cedar Bluff
Richlands
Giles County
Pearisburg
Narrows
Pembroke
Rich Creek
Glen Lyn
W. R. Williams
East Ward
Ryland Weisiger
H. E. Bowes
Rev. A. M. Henry
W. Jack Litz
Donald Gene
Rawlings
Mabel C. French
George W. Griffith
C. M. Harray
H. E. Love
James K. Salt
James C. Taylor
W. B. Jordan
James R. Skewes
John W. Howe
John R. Drosick
Charles H. Asbury
Leslie C. Brown
Herbert P. Crock
I. H. Shrader
William S. Warner
W. W. Fields
Harry T. Patterson
Billy R. Wysor
Paul F. Hefner
West Virginia Forecast With Cooler than Normal Highs
The extended West Virginia forecast shows average highs about 2 to 6 degrees below normal through Saturday with 84 degrees in the south and 80 in the north, and normal lows around 61 in the south and 55 in the north. Warm Tuesday and Wednesday expected.
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West Virginia
C Demos To Pick Foe Of Thurmond
South Carolina Democrats choose two Senate nominees with one to challenge Thurmond who switched to the Republican party in 1964. O’Hara faces Mikva and Abner Mikva in Chicago contests linked to Daley. Renomination bids include Dawson Hubbard and Williams amid party faction dynamics.
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Washington
South Carolina
Senate
Strom Thurmond
Tino
Barratt O'Hara
Democratic House
Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Abner J. Mikva
O’ Hara
Daley
O'Hara
William J. Dawson
Dawson
Fred D. Hubbard
Ronald L. Williams
Hubbard
Mikva
Thurmond
Bradley Morrah
John B. Culbertson
Greenville
Culbertson
Morrah
Donald
Russell
Ernest F. Hollings
Olin D. Johnston
Robert McNair
Resell
Hollings
Johnston
Marshall Parker
Oconee
Illinois
Charles H. Percy
Bell & Howell
Percy
Paul H. Douglas
Bristol Bay Youth Drowns During Park Cleanup
A 16 year old Bristol youth, Eugene Wright Murray, drowned during a lunch break at the new Clear Creek Recreation site not yet opened. He was part of a Neighborhood Youth Corps group cleaning the area. his body was recovered by local rescue squads.
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Bristol
Eugene Wright Murray
Murray
F. W. Murray
Clear Creek
Washington County
Heat and flood devastate eastern India amid deadly heat wave
A 9 day heat wave in West Bengal and Bihar killed at least 353 people, with 130 deaths in Patna, while floods from the Brahmaputra in Assam forced more than 300,000 to flee. Crops were scorched or washed away, livestock died, and numerous villages were submerged.
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Calcutta
India
Brahmaputra
West Bengal
Bihar
Patna
Assam
Shillong
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