Chicago detective wrote Mine is a wasted life
A Chicago detective, Roland Charles, 45, famed for bravery during crises, left a three page "Declaration" revealing racist barriers and personal struggle. He spoke of schooling, apprenticeship refusals, and discrimination within policing, ending with the line Mine is a wasted life. He died of a heart attack weeks later.
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Columbus
Nebraska
Chicago
Arthur H. Rotstein
Associated Press
Roland Charles
Charles
Elderly residents find joy making decorations at De Witt Nursing Home
Florence Brandon, Ralph Rauschkolb, and Ella Sorrell, elderly residents of De Witt Nursing Home in New York, spend Christmas preparing a cardboard star adorned with fabric squares. Brandon, a stroke survivor, aims to stay cheerful as she shares memories of England and acting with friends, while Rauschkolb helps and reflects on his large family. Sorrell, learning to paint and speak again after a stroke, joins them as 496 residents anticipate the holiday.
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Dulores Barclay
Associated Press
New York
Florence Brandon
de Witt Nursing Home
de Witt
Ralph Rauschkold
Ella Sorrell
Sam
Mrs. Brandon
Brandon
London
England
Ralph Hauschkolb
Florence
Rauschkolb
Scrooge and The Navajo Way TV Tonight
NBC airs Scrooge a 1970 movie musical of Dickens tale. Then The Navajo Way explores Navajo life and culture through a Long Salt medicine man and a Navajo family, with dignity and context about survival in a white culture.
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Jay Sharbutt
New York
NBC
Scrooge
America
Robert “Shad
Northshield
Long Salt
Arizona- Utah
Dentures Save Clerk in Omaha Market Robbery Attempt
In Omaha, a clerk escaped serious injury when a robber fired into her mouth and denture set absorbed the blast. A customer, armed, fired back, wounding the attacker who was hospitalized in serious condition. The incident contrasts with a Navajo portrait film noted for sensitive treatment of indigenous tradition.
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Omala
Neb
Omaha
Nathaniel Holbert
Bedford
4217
Evelyn Snodgrass
Space Shuttle test flights scheduled in 1977
Washington reports NASA plans horizontal test flights to begin in 1977 for the Space Shuttle, a reusable vehicle to serve as a transportation system for diverse low earth orbit missions and to deploy science and applications satellites of all types.
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Washington, D.C
NASA
Shuttle
CNS
Sioux signers of 1877 treaty deemed traitors by descendants
Sioux anthropologist Bea Medicine testified in Lincoln Nebraska that 1877 signers of an agreement surrendering the Black Hills were not part of legitimate leadership and that the treaty lacked valid tribal mandating signatures. If the 1868 treaty is upheld the Wounded Knee convictions could be overturned and Sioux lands pursued.
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Lincoln
Neb
United States
Black Hills
U.S. District Court
Bea Medicine
Standing Hock Reservation
South Dakota
Wounded Knee
Medicine
Dartmouth
Indian Court of Claims
Warren K. Urbomn
Johnson memorial grove dedicated in Washington park
A 43 ton block of granite from Lyndon B. Johnson's Texas hill country forms the center of the LHJ Memorial Grove in Lady Bird Johnson Park overlooking the Potomac River. Dedicated Sept 27, the 1% acre site features trees shrubs and trails as a winery memorial in Washington D C.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Potomac River
Ladybird Johnson
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