Talks By James Reston on Hanoi Peace Proposals
Washington officials scrutinize Hanoi's four point peace plan as an invitation to surrender. The U S aims to test whether talks would limit military activity while war continues, preserving balance of power and avoiding self strangulation by the enemy.
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Washington
North Vietnam
Hanoi
United States
Defense McNamara
Gen. Westmoreland
Johnson
Egracen S
Demilitarized Zone
U. S
Reporter recalls King's vulnerability to quick death
Alvin Benn recalls covering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham and nearby in 1966. He notes King spoke of death, faced constant danger, and was killed by an assassin while his non violent approach drew mixed reactions. Benn contrasts the violence around him with Gandhi like ideals.
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King
Decatur Daily News
Alvin Benn
Martin Luther King Jr
United Press International
Birmingham
Benn
Bessemer
Ala
Atlanta
Gandhi
India
Memphis
Martin Luther King
Lorraine
Dr. King
Coretta
Dexter Scott
Yolande Denise
Bernice
The McCarthy After Wisconsin
This 1968 analysis notes Eugene McCarthy's Wisconsin victory as a high point in his presidential bid. It contrasts his eloquence and antiwar stance with the Kennedy juggernaut and hints McCarthy as a romantic symbol challenging power and propaganda.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Washington
Wisconsin
Eugene McCarthy
Indiana
Nebraska
Oregon
California
Bobby Kennedy
McCarthy
Kennedy
Adlai Stevenson
Waukee
Bartlett
Whitman
America
King Death Ties to Long Line of Racial Slayings
In Albany Georgia 1962 King preached after shots rang out nearby. The report recounts a string of racially charged killings from 1963 to 1965 including William Moore Medgar Evers Goodman Schwerner Chaney Malcolm X and ongoing threats to King as he faced mortality for the civil rights struggle.
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New York Times News Service
NEW York
Albany
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
King
William L. Moore
Baltimore
South
Alabama
Attalla
Medgar W. Evers
Mississippi
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Jackson
Miss
Andrew Goodman
Queens College
Michael Schwerner
James Chaney
Meridian
Decatur Letter Attacks Public Park Name and Civil Rights Deaths
A letter to the Forum questions park naming and local funds for Decatur improvements while recounting Civil Rights era deaths in Selma and related violence. It notes reactions to Bob Kennedy and mentions Jimmie Lee Jackson Viola Luizzo and others, tying local pride to national unrest.
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Decatur
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N. Y. Times News Service
Hawaii
U.S
Vietnam
Westmoreland
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnam
Lurleen Wallace
Malcolm X
Elijah Muhammed
Harlem
Dr. King’s
Mr. Shelton
Forum
W. O
Bill) Graham
M.S
C.D
Bob Kennedy
Hub Gardner
Selma
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Marion
James L. Reed
Boston
Viola Gregg Luizzo
Detroit
Montgomery
Jonathan Myrick Danials
Keene, N. H
Haynesville
Liuzzo
Richard F. Morrisree
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