Laura Walker a Cedar Rapids pioneer in rail and growth
Laura Walker, wife of railroad builder William Williams Walker and daughter of the first Cedar Rapids rail promoter, shaped early Iowa progress. Her leadership at First Presbyterian Church, civic clubs, and the Laura Walker Guild and Parlor reflected a life of construction, banking, and aviation hopes.
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Indictment in Kissinger Kidnap Plot Targets Clergy
On this date in 1971 a federal grand jury indicted Rev. Philip Berrigan a nun and four others including two priests charging them with plotting to kidnap presidential adviser Henry Kissinger.
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