Chair Demand For Ruby State Trial Tactics
Dallas AP. District Attorney Henry Wade says he will seek the death penalty for Jack Ruby. Defense argues a second trial in Wichita Falls, possibly in February, could yield a murder without malice verdict by excluding premeditation testimony. Wade cites five or six new witnesses to be used.
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Dallas
Tex
Henry Wade
Jack Ruby
Wade
Lee Harvey Oswald
Wichita Falls
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Ruby
Louis T. Holland
Leading South Vietnamese Politician Slain in Saigon
Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed Tran Van Van, a 58-year-old leading figure in South Vietnamese politics, as he rode to his office. One assailant was captured near U.S. Ambassador Lodge’s residence. the other fled. Police say the captured youth confessed to Viet Cong ties. The killing overshadows war news amid ongoing American air and naval operations in North and South Vietnam.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam AP
Tran van van
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Van
Constituent Assembly
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
US S
Tan Son Nhut
Ameri
Vo Vanjean
South
Viet Nam
Kyu
Hanoi
United States
Air Force
Gunnery death in Revere marks 36th Boston area gang land slaying
Police tie the fatal shooting of Joseph Chico Amico, 27, of Boston to the ongoing gang violence surge in Greater Boston, described as the 36th such killing in 2% years. Dean Rusk meanwhile warned Red China faces serious internal economic and international relations problems.
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Revere
Mass
Joseph Chico Amico
Boston
Greater
Taipei
Formosa
Dean Rusk
Red China
Peng Chen Arrest Signals Red Guards Pronouncement
In Belgrade AP reports Peng Chen former Peking mayor and Politburo member was arrested amid Red Guards loudspeakers declaring he proved to be a paper tiger. In Chicago AP notes two cars detached from a train and fell from an elevated structure during rain killing one and injuring 25.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Peng Chen
Peking
Red Chinese
Red Guards
China
Chicago
Skimpy Returns Mark Amendment Election Across Alabama
Amost all counties report low turnout with Morgan County showing the smallest statewide vote in years. Four constitutional amendments appear rejected or approved in fragments while Marengo votes down a $400000 courthouse bond. Estimated county costs range up to 250000 with per vote around 5 dollars.
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Morgan County
Alabama
Geneva
Marengo
Franklin
Marengo County
Court House
Two Killed In Area Accidents
Two people died in separate accidents in Lawrence and Cullman counties. Garland L Stephenson, 74, of Moulton, died after a collision near Moulton. Rebecca Lucille Brummett, 16, and her sister Ida Gail Brummett, 12, were struck crossing Alabama 157 near Cullman while walking to a school bus. Ida Gail remained critical. Curtis Denton, 52, Addison, drove the car that hit them. no charges were filed. The Brummett girls were children of Mr and Mrs Melvin Brummett and attended West Point School. Ida Gail underwent surgery at Cullman Hospital. The incident occurred near the Brummett home.
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Cullman
Ida Gail
Alabama
Cullman Hospital
Harvey Elliott
T. O. Lundy
Lawrence County
Garland
Moulton
San
Howell
Brummett
Curtis Denton
Addison 1
Bendix-Westinghouse Co
Melvin Brummett
West Point
Elliott
Stephenson
Lawrence County Hospital
Ernest P. Brewer, Jr
Brewer
Johnson expects Viet Nam war costs to exceed budget by 9 to 10 billion
President Johnson said war expenses through June 30 will surpass earlier projections by 9 to 10 billion dollars and plans to request a supplemental appropriation from Congress next month. He avoided committing to a 1967 tax increase, noting that key facts are coming into place.
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Austin, Tex
Johnson
Congress
Federal
Markets At A Glance
New York stocks higher on heavy trading. Chicago wheat rose on weather, corn and soybeans mixed with good demand. Butcher hogs steady to 25 cents lower at 22.00, slaughter steers steady to 25 cents lower at 25.25.
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Chicago
New Anti Net Fishing Law Sought in Limestone County
Limestone County Judge Rosenau ruled the local net fishing ban illegal but the Limestone County Sportsmen's Club will push for a new bill. The group aims for a local referendum after a preliminary vote and plans to seek similar rulings in Lauderdale and other Valley counties.
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Athens
Limestone County
D. L. Rosenau
Alabama Supreme Court
Limestone County Sportsmen's Club
Rosenal
Johnny Rogers
Decatur
Tennessee Valley For Better Fishing Committee
Rogers
Glenn
Lauderdale County
Tennessee Valley
Madison
Sportsmen’s Club
Ed Shelton
Grady Holland
Fred Black
Africans Press Total Rhodesian Boycott at UN
African members at the United Nations push for a total economic boycott of Rhodesia. British Foreign Secretary George Brown arrives to present a soft draft resolution calling selective sanctions and possibly an oil export embargo. South Africa says it will keep trade with Rhodesia. Prime Minister Wilson seeks UN action after Rhodesia rejects a settlement.
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United Nations, N.Y
United Nations
Security Council
Rhodesia
George Brown
Newark
Council
Brown
South Africa
Harold Wilson
African Bloc
Opelika Macon murder trial begins in Alabama
A jury of 12 white men was chosen to try Marvin L. Segrest, 68, of Shorter, for killing a Negro student active in the civil rights movement near Tuskegee. The panel was struck and reorganized after court convened.
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Opelika
Ala
Tuskegee
Tom F. Young
Marvin L. Segrest
Shorter
Macon
Survivors of Pearl Harbor Gather Today
Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze told Pearl Harbor survivors at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific that the 25 year old attack taught the U S to sustain a deterrent with strategic forces and deployable tactical defenses to deter and respond to aggression in Southeast Asia.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Paul H. Nitze
United States
Southeast Asia
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Nitze
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Dong Hoi
U.S. Command
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Reebecca
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