Turnpike Sniper Diagnosed As Violent By Psychiatrist
Relatives say Donald Martin Lambright, who staged a highway shooting spree killing four and wounding 17, felt he was a victim of racism. An uncle noted a psychiatrist diagnosed him a year earlier as violent or crisis prone, but he refused treatment. Lambright’s mother blamed national racism. the spree began on the Pennsylvania Turnpike as his wife rode beside him. An M1 rifle and a .30 caliber carbine were found in the car with him. The rampage killed Ignatius Keenan and his wife, with others hospitalized in Harrisburg. The report notes victims Vincent Saitta and Ernest Stevens in serious or critical condition.
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Harrisburg
Donald Martin Lambright
Lambright
Stepin Fetchit
Howard Johnson
New York City
Cleveland
Winifred Lee
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Harrisburgh
Vincent Saitta
Framingdale
N.Y
Ernest Stevens
Elkhart
Ind
Turnpike
Annette
St. Louis
Keenan
Pennsylvania State University
High Court Rules Obscenity Laws In Home Illegal
The Supreme Court rules it cannot be a crime to possess obscene films or printed matter in the privacy of one's home. The decision upholds the right to receive information and ideas as fundamental to a free society.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Stolen Checks Return to Union City Firm
Stolen checks from Kim my-Nichols Inc. inUnion City are being cashed in Illinois and downstate Pennsylvania with two suspects recently released from prison. Police and owner Ernest Kimmy have no total cash figure but note over 2 percent of issued checks have been returned.
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Kimmy-Nichols, Inc
Union City
Ernest Kimmy
Illinois
Downstate
Pennsylvania
Erie
Kimmy
Union City Police Department
No One Hurt In Two-Car Crash On Columbus Avenue
Police said a two car collision at 3 a.m. on Fast Columbus avenue caused about 1300 dollars in damage. Glenn E. Smith 41 of R D 3 failed to signal before rear ending Terry L. Wesoleski 19 of 517 South Center street as he slowed to turn onto Wayne street.
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Guy
Columbus Avenue
Glenn E. Smith
Terry L. Wesoleski
South Center Street
East Columbus
Wayne Street
Smith
Motorist Unhburt In Wild Ride Near Road Embankment
A motorist lost control on a right curve, left the highway, plowed through a yard and mailbox, then flipped onto its top after a 200 150 and 100 foot path. Vehicle damage estimated at 200 with charges pending. A second crash near Union City injured no one but caused minor damage.
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Roger Wetmore
Barbour
Loas
Union City Borough
Diana Harrington
B.D. 8
Corry
Albert Suverison
B.D. 1
Cortland
Ohio
Harrington
Suverison
Clair Stile
Tragic Route 22 Crash Claims 6 Year Old
A 6 year old girl Jacqueline Banks of Philipsburg was killed when a car driven by her mother Wynona Banks 27 slammed through a guard rail on Route 22 nine miles west of Franklin. The mother and another daughter Mary Ann 7 were seriously injured and taken to Allegheny General Hospital. The crash occurred at 345 PM after a following car driven by Samuel Banks 33 towed beside the vehicle. he said his wife slumped at the wheel and the vehicle swerved then plunged over a cement abutment into a 15 foot embankment landing in a field.
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Franklin
Franklin Yesternead
Jacqueline Banks
Philipsburg
Wynona Banks
Bank
Samuel Banks
Banks
Itis
Former Commanders Publish Report White House Halted Viet Victory
Gen Westmoreland and Adm Sharp release a Pentagon report arguing escalation kept South Vietnam from falling while White House limits prevented a full traditional victory. They credit troop buildup and bombing for pressuring Hanoi and aiding Paris negotiations despite restraints.
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Washington
U.S
South Vietnam
White House
Vietnam
Pentagon
William C. Westmoreland
Adm. A. 8
G. Sharp
Rogers Reveals US Plan For Vietnam Troop Withdrawal
Secretary of State Rogers said the United States hopes for a mutual troop withdrawal from Vietnam this year and will push a plan to end the conflict. He outlined SEA talks in Bangkok and noted early steps toward strategic arms talks with the Soviet Union. Rogers also urged improved US relations with China and criticized the Brezhnev doctrine over Czechoslovakia.
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Washington (Ap
William P. Rogers
Vietnam
Nixon
Rogers
U.S
United States
Red China
Russia
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
Crackdown Called For In Child Abuse
Dr. Vincent Fontana of New York Foundling Hospital warned that one or two children die daily from parental abuse in the nation. He cited five New York City child slayings in the past week and urged new laws to protect children and remove them from dangerous homes. The task force, created by Mayor John V. Lindsay, aims to address the Roxanne Felumero case and similar tragedies.
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New York
Vincent Fontana
New York Foundling Hospital
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Roxanne Felumero
Fontana
WMCA
Youth Struck by Car Injured in Saturday Night Incident
16 year old Robin G. Parks suffered multiple abrasions after running diagonally into a moving car on East Washington Street near Bowl-Aire Lanes. Witnesses and police described the collision as the youth crossing into the car driven by Raymond H. Weldon. The boy was hospitalized at Corry Memorial with injuries to face head body arms back and left hip.
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Bryear
East
Washington
Weldon
Mark Weldon
Roger Faris
Corry
Oil collision floods Mississippi river. 25 crew missing
A freighter Union Faith and a tanker barge collided beneath the Greater New Orleans bridge, igniting a fire that blanketed the Mississippi River. Twenty five crewmen of the Union Faith remain unaccounted for as fires burn along the river and two barges drift downstream.
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Mississippi River
Coast Guard
Union Faith
Warren Doucet
Elyase Landry
Hell
Arnold Regouffre
Greater
New Orleans Mississippi River
Beatle Harrison Renounces Marijuana at Home
London reports George Harrison declared he will never possess marijuana in his house again. The 2 year old pop musician and his wife Patt were fined $400 each for having marijuana enough for about 120 cigarettes in their suburban bungalow. He said I don t need pot and I want to be left alone to work as an individual.
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London
George Harrison
Patt
Harrison
Two North Vietnamese Attacks Kill 27 Americans
In Saigon, North Vietnamese infantry split into two groups and killed 14 U.S. troops with 28 wounded as combat raged Sunday night. Three enemy dead were initially reported, with fighting at a low level since the spring offensive began six weeks earlier. Another engagement left 11 Americans dead and 19 wounded in a separate two and a half hour fight.
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Saigon
U.S
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