Racial violence protest marches through New York
More than 100 singing demonstrators marched five miles in heat from Bedford Stuyvesant to police headquarters to protest the fatal shooting of Nelson Erby by a white patrolman. The march aimed to press for a civilian police review board as white counter protesters mingled with CORE voices.
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NEW York
Congress of Racial Equality
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan
U.S. Nationalist Party
James Farmer
CORE
Wo Man’s Land
Nelson Erby
P. Sheldon Leibowitz
Brooklyn Core
Civil rights protests escalate in Bogalusa with clashes
Civil workers and white residents clashed as pickets were pelted with fruit and debris at a Bogalusa shopping center. Police arrested a young Negro girl, while Ku Klux Klan members distributed rally cards from Natchez. John Doar and Gov. McKeithen urged calm as tensions rose and talks continued.
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Ku Klux Klan
Crossroads
Miss
Egg P
Natchez
States Rights Party
John Doar
Doar
Civil Rights Division
Justice Department
Bogalusa
Jesse Cutter
White House
Louisiana
New Orleans
John J. McKeithen
Greensboro Civil Rights Pickets Stand After Street Violence
About two dozen demonstrators picketed Main Street Greensboro Alabama restrained from Hale County Courthouse where tensions flared Friday. Rev A T Days urged restraint while vowing further action Monday if merchants did not respond. A 38 year old Houston man, Robert Long, was jailed carrying a butcher knife wrapped in a comic book near the line.
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Main Street
Halene
Rev. A.T. Days
St. Matthew A.M.E
Greensboro
Robert Long
Houston
Tex
Long
B52 Strike Force May Be Boosted
Washington reports that additional B52 bombers may be deployed to Guam if tactical uses in South Vietnam continue or rise. A fourth B52 mission in a month hit suspected Viet Cong targets, signaling a potential pattern for future strikes and crowding Guam’s bomber fleet.
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Washington
Guam
South Viet Nam
U. S
Satuday
Strategic Air Command
Viet Nam
USA
Jet Interception Report Probed
French and American authorities investigated reports that an RF 101 photo reconnaissance jet was intercepted near Pierrelatte in the Rhone Valley. U S Air Force officials said the aircraft from Ramstein AB Germany was not intercepted but identified by a French patrol and returned to base after a weather deviation.
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Paris
Pierreatte
U.S. Air Force
Ramstein Air Force Base
West Germany
Rhone Valley
Lyon
U.S
Pierrelatte
Ramstein
France
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