Marm Jr. to Receive Medal of Honor for Ia Drang Heroism
Lieutenant Walter J. Marm Jr. will be awarded the Medal of Honor for leading his platoon at Chu Pong Mountain during the Ia Drang battle in November 1965. Marm, 25, of Washington Pennsylvania, killed 18 North Vietnamese soldiers, was wounded, and spent three months recovering before becoming an instructor at the Ranger Department, Fort Benning. Sixteen relatives are to attend the ceremony with Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor presenting the award.
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Washington
Walter J. Marm Jr
Marm
Secretary of the Army
Stanley R. Resor
Ia Drang
Marin
Chu Pong Mountain
Walter J. Marm Sr
Johnson
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
Ft. Benning,Ga
Three Roosevelt High Students Shot and Killed in St Louis
In a Sunday scuffle a gunman killed three 17-year-old Roosevelt High School pupils in St Louis. A fourth pupil, Steve Schroeder, 16, was hospitalized with a liver gunshot wound. Richard Otis, 21, of Eureka, faces three counts of second degree murder. two younger suspects, brothers aged 14 and 15, are in juvenile custody.
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ST. Louis
F. J. Vasal
Richard Otis
Eureka
Vasel
Michael Tinsley
Joseph Michaels
Gary Ratliff
Steve Schroeder
Roosevelt High School
Governors Demand Role in 1968 Campaign Strategy
Democratic governors at a National Governors Conference urge President Johnson to share decision making on the 1968 campaign. They fault Johnson as a one man band and push for reorganizing the Democratic Party machinery with governors forming the campaign base. Strong talk of possibly replacing National Chairman John Bailey surfaces while some see Romney as Johnson’s main rival if he seeks a second term.
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Johnson
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Democratic National Committee
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
John B. Connally
Texas
Otto Kerner
Illinois
John M. Bailey
Bailey
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
Kerner
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
Richard M. Nixon
Dentist recalls Wright brothers amid 63 years of memory
Geneva dentist Dr. Thomas Wesley Patton, 82, recalls meeting Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton and helping build their first aircraft. He describes their perseverance, humor, and the early bicycle shop days that led to Kitty Hawk flight and the progress of aviation.
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Geneva
Ala
Thomas Wesley Patton
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Patton
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
N.C
Dayton
Tommy
Liberty
Ohio
The
Wrights
Wilbur
Wright
Hunger strike grips New York antiwar protester
An 18 year old girl named Suzanne Williams remains on a fifth day hunger strike after arrest with 59 others at an anti Vietnam war demonstration in lower Manhattan. Water is available in her cell at the Women's House of Detention as she faces charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She was brought to court in a wheelchair for arraignment.
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New York
Suzanne Williams
Armed Forces Induction Center
Lower Manhattan
Miss Williams
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