North Viet Nam Claims Tonkin Incident Fabricated for LBJ Re-Election
North Viet Nam accused the United States of fabricating the Gulf of Tonkin incident to aid President Johnson’s re-election bid and stabilize South Vietnam. The Nhan Dan editorial in Hanoi called the claim an attempt to use Vietnamese blood to boost political aims, while McNamara described an exchange of fire with unidentified vessels.
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Nam
United States
Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Nhan
Dan
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Goldwater Party
Johnson Clique
Goldwater Clique
Red China
New China News Agency
Tokyo
U.S
U. S
Robert S. McNamara
Washington
US Scout Car Crash Kills German Woman and Children
A seven ton U S Army scout car lost control on a highway near here and struck a German sedan killing a 29 year old woman and two of her daughters ages 8 and 9. A third daughter died later in hospital. Four others in the German car were injured including one American. German police say steering failure may have caused the crash on a dry road.
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Hof
Germany
Here
Virginia General Assembly to meet for redistricting duties
A federal court in Alexandria ordered redistricting by December 15, ending 1963 elected terms. Gov. Harrison plans a special session in late 1965 or early 1966 to draft new redistricting bills for submission to the extra session in Richmond. The court gave no guidelines on apportionment.
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Harrison
Senate
House
Alexandria
House of Delegates
General Assembly
NATO Maneuvers Open Off Europe With 125 Ships
The largest NATO fleet drills in four years start off Europe on Monday. The exercise tests convoying merchant ships since World War II with about 125 ships 170 planes and 30 000 personnel. Runs Sept 21 to Oct 2.
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Washington
Europe
Adm
Reynold D. Hogle
Allied Command
Atlantic
Goldwater denounces Johnson crisis of the week foreign policy
Senator Barry Goldwater criticizes the Johnson administration for a crisis of the week approach to foreign policy. He questions secrecy over the Gulf of Tonkin incident and compares U S actions in Viet Nam with previous attacks while urging clearer details and decisive steps to deter further harassment.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Viet Nam
Gulf of Tonkin
Goldwater
Political Fireworks Expected At Legion Convention
Dallas hosts thousands of Legionnaires for the American Legion meeting with Barry Goldwater and Robert S. McNamara as principal speakers. McNamara, substituting for Johnson, accuses Goldwater of weakening national security while Goldwater attacks military credibility. Johnson may still join.
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Dallas
Tex
American Legion
Barry Goldwater
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Johnson
Goldwater
Legion
Train Derails as Bombs Are Lifted in Ohio Incident
Navy personnel removed 180 bombs weighing 500 pounds each from a derailed Baltimore & Ohio freight car five miles west of Chillicothe, Ohio. The bombs, not fused, were shipped from Cincinnati to Earle, New Jersey. Ross County deputies kept onlookers away during the operation after a burned journal box caused the derailment.
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Chillicothe, Ohio
Navy
Baltimore & Ohio
Here
Ross County
Sheriff's Office
Cincinnati
Earle
N.J
Cook Admits He Killed Girl Friend
AP reports an unemployed cook admitted to shooting his girlfriend Brenda Lee Wyatt, 20, and moving her body to Kennett, Missouri. Winford told police of the Saturday dispute and the trunk transport, returning by bus. he faces homicide suspicion.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Brenda Lee Wyatt
Kennett
Raymond Scott
Merle Winford
Winford
Auto Door Hies Open injures two youths
Two teenage residents of Monroe County, Wendell W. Wills 16 and Tony R. Brown 17 of Bozoo, were injured Sunday morning when their car slid on a curve and the door flew open. Both were admitted to Bluefield Sanitarium at noon and remained under treatment Sunday night.
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Monroe County
Bluefield Sanitarium
Wendell W. Wills
Bozoo
Tony R. Brown
Inside Abby Years Classified Comics Goren
Fragmentary text mentions Abby and various sections but lacks clear events or names. No discernible news item or structured content to summarize into a valid newspaper card.
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Abby
Goren
Princeton Society
Wea
Dallas Bomb Scare Involving Beatles Charter Plane
A bomb scare at Dallas Municipal Airport touched a chartered plane connected to the Beatles cast. The Beatles were not on board. After a caller warned of a bomb, the plane was searched with no explosive found and it proceeded to Missouri to pick up the group for travel to New York.
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Dallas
Dallas, Tex
Dallas’ Municipal
Britain
Missouri
New York
De Gaulle Begins 10 Nation Tour To Bolster France Abroad
President Charles de Gaulle lands in Pointe-a-Pitre on a 82 hour flight from Paris to launch a 27 day Latin American tour. He will visit Venezuela Colombia Ecuador Bolivia Peru Chile Argentina Paraguay Uruguay and Brazil after Mexico in March.
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Pointe-A-Pitre
Guadaloupe
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Paris
Caracas
Venezuela
United States
Latin America
Congress
Raul Leoni
Colombia
Ecuador
Bolivia
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Paraguay
Uruguay
Brazil
Mexico
France
China
Southeast Asia
Two Tankers Collide Off Central Japan Coast
Two ships, the 11000 ton British Eastern Take and the Japanese Nikka Maru, collided 15 miles south southeast of Nagoya. The Nikka Maru sank immediately and nine crewmen are missing. The Eastern Take, en route from Kobe to the United States, anchored at the scene and no casualties were yet reported.
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Tokyo
Japan
Maritime Safety Board
Kobe
United States
Nagoya
U S Women Marrying And Having Babies Earlier
Washington AP report: American women marry earlier and have first child sooner than a generation ago. The Population Reference Bureau notes a continued shift to smaller families, contributing to the birth rate drop from 26.8 in 1947 to 22.1 per thousand in 1963, with women ceasing childbearing earlier than their mothers.
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Washington
Population Reference Bureau
Bureau
U.S
Sheriff Rainey to testify as grand jury investigates 1964 slayings
In Biloxi Mississippi the federal grand jury opens its probe into the 1964 abduction and killings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Sheriff Lawrence Rainey deputy Cecil Price and other officials are subpoenaed as witnesses. The case follows church burnings in the Philadelphia area and the discovery of the workers bodies in a farm pond.
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Biloxi
Miss
Lawrence Rainey
Neshoba County
Philadelphia
Rainey
Cecil Price
Price
Mississippi County
Bill Richardson
H.E.M. Herring
Justice of the Peace
Lawrence Warren
Kemper County
Justice Department
Grand
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
New York City
James Chaney
Meridian
FBI
State Highway Patrol
Sailors Saved From Sea Tomb by Diving Rescuer in Australia
Eleven Danish sailors rescued from the capsized dredge Kaptain Nielsen hailed diver Joe Engwirda as an angel in a black diving suit. Engwirda spent half an hour guiding them with breathing apparatus before surfacing. four others escaped, two remain missing, and seven died. The captain and crew described singing and humor amid the entombment.
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Brisbane
Australia
Joe Engwirda
Engwirda
Ergwirca
Kim Petersen
Witt
Raven Man Killed in Rt 19 Wreck Near Tazewell
A 44 year old Garnett Richardson of Raven Virginia was killed instantly when his 1983 car left U S 19 eight miles west of Tazewell struck a bridge abutment. He was the son of Mrs Jenny Sloan Richardson and the late Ranze Richardson and survived by a wife two daughters three sons two sisters and six brothers. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 p m at Richlands Tabernacle with burial at Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery.
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Tazewell County
Tazewell, Va
Garnett Richardson
Raven
Virginia
D. J. Johnson
Richardson
U. S. 19
Tazewell
Chesapeake
Warren County
Old Dominion
Jenny Sloan Richardson
Ranze Richardson
Beulah Webb Richardson
Glenda Kay
Jacquline Richardson
Pete Richardson
Richlands
Dowell
Jack Richardson
Myrtle Whited
Swords Creek
Mary Richardson
Daley
Clyde Richardson
Claude
Jesse
Albert Richardson
Paul Richardson
Doran
Richlands Tabernacle
Grat Horton
E. C. Price
Clinch Valley Memorial
Ceme- Farmers Funeral Home
New York Woman Hides In Dryer To Warm Up
Emma White 53 of Poughkeepsie was found asleep inside a large dryer at a 24 hour Newburgh laundry. The attendant turned off the machine. police arrested her on a charge of disorderly conduct after she admitted drinking and seeking warmth.
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Newburgh
N. Y
Emma White
Poughkeepsie
Frisco Cable Car Out of Control Plunges Down Hyde Street
A cable car carrying 36 people on Hyde Street in San Francisco rolled backward out of control down to the bay. Sixteen passengers leaped to the pavement and seven women and two men went to Harbor Emergency Hospital with cuts and concussions.
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Hyde Street
San Francisco Bay
Harbor Emergency Hospital
Joseph Ruiz
San Francisco
Montebello
Calif
Two Strippers Shot To Death In Peoria
Peoria County authorities hunted ex convict Arthur alias Shoeshine Anderson after two women were shot in a Peoria Heights coffee shop. Victims Marjorie Herd 30 formerly of La Crosse and Chicago and Dorne Coley 25 of Little Rock were killed by a 45 caliber pistol shot to the head. Anderson has prison records in four states and first faced the law at age 12.
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Peoria, Ill
Peoria County
Ray Trunk
Arthur
Anderson
Trunk
Marjorie Herd
la Crosse
Wis
Chicago
Dorne Coley
Little Rock
Ark
Peoria Heights
Illinois
California
Oregon
Washington State
Eight Die in Calcutta Train Collision Near Gauhati
Eight persons were killed and 26 injured in a head on crash between two passenger trains 40 miles from Gauhati the Assam capital, Saturday. Officials reported details from the Calcutta AP dispatch.
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Calcutta
India
Assam
Gauhati
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