North Carolina Toll Death Toll Near 1969 Mark
A weekend surge on North Carolina highways left 17 people dead and the year to date toll within 14 of the 1969 pace. The count includes a Wilmington man killed in Johnston County, a double fatality near Lenoir, a Martin County bus wreck, several pedestrian deaths, and numerous other crash victims across multiple counties.
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North Carolina
Bonnie Sue Cannon
Bobby Gene Taylor
Rt. 1
Hudson
U.S. 321
Lenoir
Statery Patrol
John Warren Fulwood Jr
Wilmington
W.C
N.C
Wendell
Johnston County
Martin County
Whamp Ashe
Brooklyn
N.Y
Andrew Bell
Falkland
Yale
Bertha Hutchin Bullin
Mocksville
Mitchell J. Deese
Lexington
Jimmy Ethridge Hall
Elizabethtown
Margaret Allen Harwood
Rt. 2
Apex
Willie David Barnes
Bailey
James Daniel Hicks
Granite Falls
Annie Best Turlington
Fremont
Davis Speaks At Antiwar Festival Chapel Hill
Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago Seven, told about 2,000 at an antiwar festival in Chapel Hill that protesters must show they are anarchists and misfits and will take back the country by any means. He also criticized Nixon and said demonstrations have no legitimate channels. Retired Gen. Hester accused the U S of aggression in Vietnam and dismissed the Saigon government as Washington’s proxy.
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Chapel Hill
Chicago
Rennie Davis
Agnew
Davis
Nixon
Hugh Hester
U.S
Vietnam
Hester
Saigon
Washington
Rivers Opposed to Trials Over My Lai Inquiries
U S Representative Mendel Rivers criticized the My Lai soldier trials as potentially destroying the U S Army. He condemned charges against several Green Beret officers over a suspected Vietcong agent’s murder and called punishing the Green Berets unforgivable. He spoke at a press conference and at the Oklahoma State Dental Association convention.
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Oklahoma City
House Armed Services Committee
U.S
Mendel Rivers
My Lai
Rivers
South Carolina
Green Beret
Oklahoma State Dental Association
Green Berets
North Vietnamese Press Ahead With Attacks Across Vietnam
North Vietnamese offensives in the Central Highlands and northern South Vietnam killed 2 Americans and 25 South Vietnamese, with 15 Americans and 170 South Vietnamese wounded. Four U.S. helicopters were shot down, two Americans killed and seven wounded. The campaign, labeled the X Campaign in captured documents, aims to continue through June. Dak Seang camp families were attacked, with 13 killed and 70 wounded, 25 houses burned. Dak Pek saw fighting with 11 Montagnards killed and 88 wounded. 61 North Vietnamese casualties claimed by South Vietnamese HQ.
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Saigon
Central Highlands
South Vietnam
U.S
Dak Seang
Pleiku
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THE
Associated Press
Eckerd
Gene Brawley
North End
N., Main
McDonald’'S Hamburger
Wurlitzer
Akan
Wen
Pearson 4] Music CO
Main St
Greensboro
Raleigh
Durham
North Vietnamese
George Esper
Dak Pek
Laos
High Point Bonded Warehouse
Belmar Street
Virginia
Carolinas
the Peddler Steak House
Terry Southerland
Mgr
E. Parris Ave
Fran K-Mart & Towne Theatre
ABC
Wig Pagoda
Maitons Beauty Salon
Artistic Beauty College
N. Main St
ATV
Nash Jewelry CO
Aiser Aluminum
High Point
Jet Piedmont
Piedmont
National Airport
Memphis
Nashville
Richmond
Piedmont Airlines
Volkswagen Medical
DON Gilstrap, Inc
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