Pueblo crew freed after 11 months of capture
The Navy announced the Pueblo crew members, held by North Korea for 11 months, would be released. Families across the nation awoke in shock and joy as calls arrived about the dramatic turn of events.
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Sylvan Fox
New York Times News Service
New York
Navy
Pueblo
North Korea
James Shepard
Williamstown
Mass
Chester Rogala
Richard J. Rogala
Niles, Ill
Hone
Phyliss Berens
Ronald L. Berens
Russell
Kan
Berens
Wichita
Howard Bland
Howard E. Bland
Leggett
Calif
Apollo 8 Near Lunar Orbit On Christmas Eve
Apollo 8 crew led by Frank Borman pushes toward the moon with plans for a Christmas Eve lunar orbit. Lovell and Anders report good health as the craft approaches within 60 miles, awaiting a precise LOI burn to enter lunar orbit.
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Air Force
Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell
William A. Anders
Mnon
Moon
Holiday Cheer telegram
A report notes that her husband and his crew were released by North Vietnam. The item references AP Wirephoto and conveys a brief wartime release moment as a telegram style update.
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North Vietnam
Markets and Agricultural Prices Move in Active New York Trade
New York markets show stocks down in active trading. Cotton gains while Chicago wheat leads with liquidation. Corn oats and soybeans mostly lower on liquidation pressure. Hog prices rise 50 to 1.00, top 22.00 with 4,500 receipts. Slaughter steers gain 50 to 75 cents, top 31.75 with 7,000 receipts.
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Chicago
Space trio likely to contract virus aboard Apollo 8
Houston AP reports a space doctor says it is almost certain all three astronauts will contract a flu like virus aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft. Commander Frank Borman remains weakened but improving while Lovell and Anders are expected to be reinfected in the close cabin quarters.
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Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
Air Force
William A. Ander
Borman
Boirman
Santa to face frost as Tennessee Valley turns cold
A high pressure system brings freezing temperatures for Christmas Eve night with sub freezings in the Tennessee Valley. Light rain is forecast for Thursday and possibly Saturday with clearing and wind and a dip to the low 20s. National note shows cold to mild West with rain on the Pacific coast and snow inland while the East remains mostly chilly.
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Saint Nick
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Florida
Central
North Pacific
Rockies
Midwest
Appalachians
Atlantic
New England
States
Great Plains
Beatings Mark final weeks of Pueblo crew captivity
Cmdr Lloyd M. Bucher recounts brutal beatings of the USS Pueblo crew during North Korean captivity. Surviving 81 sailors, many show black eyes and malnutrition after 11 months of confinement. some beaten with a four by four timber. He notes solitary confinement and fear throughout, with hospital checks before reunion with families in San Diego.
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Seoul
Pueblo
Lloyd M. Bucher
South Korea
Bucher
Norans
San Diego
Calif
Faster Than Light Particle Research Urged By Scientist
Dallas reports a new experiment tests the existence of particles that travel faster than light. Dr. E C G Sudarshan of Syracuse University says early results do not contradict the idea and hint at such particles but are not conclusive. Einstein’s relativity remains the dominant principle, with more work needed to overturn it.
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Dallas
E. C. G. Sudarshan
Syracuse
N. Y
Sudarshan
University of Rochester
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Viet Cong Christmas Truce Begins in Vietnam War
Viet Cong proclaimed a Christmas truce period starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday, first such standdown since the Tet lunar new year. In Paris, Viet Cong rejected direct talks with the South Vietnamese government as proposed by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky.
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Saigon
Paris
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nixon daughter Julie weds Dwight Eisenhower II in private church ceremony
Julie Nixon and Dwight David Eisenhower II marry in a 12 minute Protestant service at Marble Collegiate Church. The bride requested a personal ceremony with thee and thou and asked Dr. Norman Vincent Peale to read Psalm 100.
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Dee Wedemeyer
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Julie Nixon
Nixon
Dwight David Eisenhower II
Old Marble Collegiate Church
Julie
Reformed Church of America
Nixons
David
John Eisenhower
Norman Vincent Peale
Pueblo Sailor Release Misses Civil War Parallel Sense
A 1968 year end ballot asks readers to pick top stories, noting the Pueblo seizure 11 months earlier and the Kennedy and King assassinations as contenders. It invites entries postmarked by Tuesday, with a year’s Decatur Daily subscription as prize.
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Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Decatur Daily
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