03 May 1963
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Newspaper
California Pasadena Independent
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1963
Page
1
In Birmingham Alabama police arrested more than 450 Black youths aged 6 to 16 as racial demonstrations swept downtown. Dozens marched toward City Hall while others picketed, with several thousand onlookers observing behind police lines. A group of students was arrested near City Mall after kneeling to pray.
The Eastern states cooled under new rains and storms reaching from the Atlantic coast into New England. Frost and freezing temperatures swept into the Carolinas, West Virginia, and Georgia with record lows for May. Augusta Georgia registered 35 degrees, Cleveland 26, Charleston West Virginia 28.
Two civilian test pilots employed by Republic Aviation Corp were killed when two WiCS jet fighters collided at 40 000 feet above Kingston New York state police reported. The victims were Jack Tade 42 of Massapiequa NY and Don Seaver 37 of Fort Walton Beach Florida.
Inmates at St Vincent de Paul prison rioted for a second time in less than a year. A hostage was killed as convicts stabbed a guard with a kitchen knife. Guards and riot troops opened fire, killing guard Raymond Tellier and convict Claude Marcoux. A third inmate, Marcel Marcoux, was wounded. Order was restored quickly.
In a bitter Senate denunciation Senator Thomas Kuchel of California denounced “fright peddlers of the extreme right” fearmongering Americans. He named John Rousselot and James Utt among targets and criticized Birch Society followers and Gerald Smith supporters as endangering public trust with hoaxes about UN training and the U S arms policy.
A school bus carrying 48 Negro students overturned near Greensboro on Wednesday. Thirty eight were injured. seven required hospitalization but none in serious condition. The remaining passengers were treated and released.
John N. Rousselot former California congressman and Western States director of the John Birch Society held a San Jose press conference asserting that Kuchel’s remarks show a complete lack of knowledge about the Birch Society. He accused supporters of sensational charges against Sen. Kuchel and defended the society’s push for impeachment of Warren chief justice of the United States. The remarks reflect ongoing partisan debate and media reporting in Pasadena California.
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