Hoover defense of FBI shocks Princeton conference group
FBI director J Edgar Hoover sent a ten page letter to Princeton official Duane Lockard defending the bureau as efficient and fair, declining to attend the conference but urging respect for judicial and congressional review. The letter, revealing and unusual, argues that any verdict should be an acquittal.
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Politics Department
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Yale Law School
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One Dead in Crash Near Belle Plaine
A Keystone woman died and four others were hurt in a two car collision at the intersection of highways 21 and 30 six miles north of Belle Plaine at 11 a.m. Saturday. Ella Paulsen 76 died of head injuries later in Iowa City University hospital. Herman Paulsen 83 of Iowa City and four Keystone and Cedar Rapids residents were hospitalized. Herman Paulsen faces a failure to yield charge.
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Edward L. Prusia
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Prusia Auto
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Plane Crash Kills Six Near Inglesfield Airport
A twin engine private plane crashed at Inglesfield airport in the Blue Ridge mountains near Hot Springs Virginia. Six people died including two Detroit Edison Co. executives, two Japanese business men, and two crew members.
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Militant fugitive Rap Brown wounded in New York bar raid
H Rap Brown once on the FBI most wanted list was wounded by police during a predawn chase through Manhattan after he and three accomplices held up the Red Carpet bar. Three officers were injured. Brown and the others were captured on a rooftop.
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Mannetta
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Cambridge
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Rap Brown
The Vantage Point LBJ Recalls Dallas Nov 22 1963
Lyndon Baines Johnson reflects on November 22 1963 and the moment he became president in Dallas as John F Kennedy’s visit to Texas unfolds. The narrative recalls campaign hopes for Texas Massachusetts support and the Kennedy reception in Fort Worth and Dallas.
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Chamber of Commerce
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There Are Only Two Kinds of People Joke
A lighthearted quip about two types of people causing happiness. The line plays on words with a tidy pun about where happiness follows. Copyright notices appear at the end.
India and Pakistan face off on tense border standoff
India and Pakistan prepared for possible conflict after a rapid military buildup on the border. Pakistani troops with armor moved toward the front in the last ten days. Reports of border incidents in Kashmir and claims of Indian agent losses emerged as officials urged vigilance.
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Gun Battle Victims Include NY Officers and Fugitive Brown
Patrolman Salvatore Rosato was shot in the hand and Patrolman Edward Verbeeck sprained a wrist during a running gun battle in New York. A third policeman remained hospitalized in critical condition while H. Rap Brown, a black militant and FBI most wanted fugitive, was seriously wounded.
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Edward Verbeeck
New York
H. Rap Brown
FBI
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