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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1968
Page
6
A Gunsmoke episode on NBC keeps viewers riveted as Marshal Dillon and Doc escort a prisoner by train toward Dodge City. The tense hour centers on law enforcers facing gunmen and a well meaning reformer passenger amid suspense and stark violence.
About 20 chanting African American youths entered a Hyde County courthouse room in Swan Quarter. Police released smoke grenades and locked doors. a 17 year old girl leaped from a second floor window. Four youths were arrested for impeding traffic as the crowd resumed outside.
Look magazine quotes James Earl Ray claiming involvement in a murder plot to kill Martin Luther King. Ray describes meetings with a man named Raoul who offered money and travel papers to set up an Alabama operation, with a cross-border drug run as a first step. The article details Ray’s movements from Canada to Birmingham and Chicago before awaiting further contact.
Gary Coello, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Coello of Cedar Rapids, drowned Friday afternoon in the Pacific off the northwestern Mexico coast during a fishing trip with four others from San Diego State college. Authorities search for his body as waves pulled him from a shoreline rock. He was a Washington University graduate and a SDSU doctoral art student. He is survived by his parents, two brothers Dennis and Robert, and grandparents in St. Louis.
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