Los Angeles Riot Area Quiet Again
After six days of rioting in Los Angeles the riot zone saw fading violence as arson declined and National Guard units remained to maintain safety. Police logged dozens of shootings and hundreds of fires, while markets reopened and officials declared the disorder over though guards stayed in place.
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Los. Angeles
Los
Geles
Evan-Dale Steck
Billy Graham
Los Angeles
United States
Tod Am
Nelero
Edmund G. Brown
Gov. Brown
National Guard
Central Avenue
Watts Riots View Not Over As Police Brutality Probed
Los Angeles residents questioned about the Watts rioting voiced varied fears and blame. They condemned police brutality, linked poverty and idleness to unrest, and urged chief Parker to resign. Participants described persistent tensions and the sense that relief programs have failed to curb violence.
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Los Angeles
Edmund G. Brown
E. L. Hicks
James Robertson
William H. Parker
Parker
Hitler
Gestapo
Rosalie Richardson
Beverly Hills
Marines Fight Off Viet Cong in Ba Long Valley Clash
In Ba Long Valley near the northern South Vietnam border, Vietnamese government forces killed 27 Viet Cong in a major ground operation aided by B52 bombers from Guam. Six Viet Cong were captured and 28 weapons seized as the offensive, one of the largest in months, continued with fighting near Da Nang where Marines repelled an attack and inflicted multiple casualties.
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Saigonap
Viet ‘Nam
Ba Long Valley
Guam
South Viet Nam
da Nang
Falmouth
Eagles
Rober Maury
Saigon
Tinkerbelle
Barbor
Cleveland
Lizard
Tand
Virginia
Salto
Chiris
Tian
Robin
Douglas
Manry
Lone Sailor Ends Atlantic Crossing
Manry finishes the 3200 mile nonstop voyage aboard the Tinkerbelle after leaving Falmouth Massachusetts on June 1. Crowds line the Cornish coast as he nears entry, with immigration officials and harbor master awaiting the vessel. Manry, a copy editor with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, rebuilt the 30 year old boat over six years and learned sailing on Lake Erie. His wife meets him near the outer harbor as the lone crossing concludes.
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Manry
Falmouth
Mass
Tinkerbeile
Greveland Plain Dealer
Lake Erie
Nearing
Cleveland
Robert Manry
Virginia
England
Ernest Hunter
Russell W. Kane
Lake Michigan Crash Kills United Airlines Jet Crew and 30
A United Air Lines Boeing 727 bound from New York to Chicago plunged into Lake Michigan Monday night with 30 aboard. The first bodies were recovered. victims unidentified at once. The plane disappeared northeast of Chicago in a blinding flash and roar. Weather had been calm with good visibility. Plane commanded by Capt. Melville W. Towle radioed for landing instructions minutes before failing to enter a pattern. Coast Guard and Navy units searched the area as relatives waited at the airport. Clarence L. Sayen, Air Line Pilots Association president, was among those aboard.
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Chicago
United Air Lines
Lake Michigan
New York
James Seymour
Crystal Lake
Ill
Coast Guard
Woodbine
Clarence L. (Clancy) Sayen
Air Line Pilots Association
Sayen
ALPA
United
Glenview Naval Air Station
New
Highland Park
Ft. Sheridan Army Post
Wilmette
Waukegan
Coast ‘Guard
Ft. Sheridan
Federal Aviation Agency
Gerald T. Applegate
Arundel
Flight 389
Melville W. Towle
Wyckoff
O'Hare
Speaker Ban Hearings Seen Mixed But Helpful
Raleigh AP report on a nine member commission studying the speaker ban law summarizes two days of hearings as educational yet disappointing. Noted witnesses included Dr. Emmett B. Fields of Vanderbilt and South ern Assn. of Colleges, whose testimony drew praise from some members and sharp questions from Sen. Gordon Hanes.
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Raleigh
Special Speaker Ban Law Study Commission
Emmett B. Fields
Vanderbilt University
Southern Assn. of Colleges and Schools
Southern Assn
North Carolina
Gordon Hanes
Forsyth County
Asso
Dr. Fields
Hanes
Tennessee
Fields
Commission
Astronauts Set for Record Eight Days in Space
Gemini 5 crew Lt Col L. Gordon Cooper Jr and Navy Lt Cmdr Charles Conrad Jr undergo final medical checks ahead of the launch. Weather briefings and a minor comms fix completed as countdown advances to a forecast clear to moderate conditions with ceilings above 10,000 feet and temperatures near 84 degrees.
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CAPE
Kennedy
Fia
U.S
Space
Air Force
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Navy
Charles Conrad Jr
Gemini
Cape Kennedy
Gemini Control
Houston
Tex
Cooper
Conrad
2352 Voters Registered By Examiners In Three States
Washington AP reports that federal examiners registered 2352 would be voters Monday in nine counties and parishes across Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. The revised cumulative total through Monday stands at 12264 with 156 whites and 12108 Negroes. Examiners are in their second week under the recent voting rights law. Counties and parishes listed include Dallas Hale Lowndes Moregno East Carroll East Feliciana Plaquemines LeFlore Madison and others.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Civil Service Commission
Almama
Dallas
Hale
Lowndes
Moregno
East Carroll
East Feliciana
Plaquemines
Mississippi — LeFlore
Madison
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Watts
Brentwood
Mildred Wayne
Joseph Jacobs
James Smalley
Kennie Smith
Afro-American Citizens Association
YALE
Ballerinis
Lone Sailor
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Atlantic
Ft. Shi
Highland
Illinois
Yanston
Lane Michigen
Cago
Werere Flane
Chie
Robert Morgan
Harnett County
North Carolina Riviera Legion
David Britt of
Robeson
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