FDR Jr Says Businessmen May Welcome Integration
Under secretary of Commerce Franklin D Roosevelt Jr testi fied that businessmen overall will welcome a ban on racial segregation in public accommodations. He cited Commerce data on how discrimination harms interstate commerce and argued the measure aligns with Kennedy civil rights goals.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Department of Commerce
Senate Commerce Committee
Kennedy
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Commerce Committee
Kennnedy
Congress Back Kennedy Plan Promises Railroads Unity
The 20 member board of directors of the Association of American Railroads voted unanimously to support Kennedy’s bill and the president’s emergency plan. Congress moves to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to settle the four year rail labor dispute and avert a strike due to manpower cuts. Lawmakers weigh action before the July 20 strike deadline as unions mull their stance and leaders push for swift action.
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Washington
Tion
Kennedy
The
Association of American Railroads
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Capitol
White House
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
House
Racial Accord Signed to End Cambridge Tensions
Washington pact as White and Negro leaders in Cambridge Maryland sign a four page agreement at the Justice Department to end racial demonstrations and violence in the Eastern Shore fishing town. The accord calls for desegregation steps in schools public housing and a biracial human relations commission while promising no protests for an indefinite period. Kennedy Marshall and local officials participated in lengthy talks and National Guard troops will stay nearby for now.
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Washington
Cambridge
Justice Department
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Department of Employment Security
Robert C. Weaver
Dorchester County
Annapolis
Maryland State Bar Association Committee
William J. McWilliams
Cam
Nun Offers To Burn Self To Death In Saigon Protest
A 67-year-old Buddhist nun named Dieu Hue, mother of ambassador Buu Hoi, volunteered to burn herself to death to win religious equality and social justice. Authorities and Buddhist associations vowed to oppose the act amid a government veteran demonstration at Xa Loi pagoda. The nun, speaking through an interpreter, said she would proceed by any means, even without her superiors authorization, and would not reveal a time or place. Dieu Hue cited the monk Quang Due as a precedent for self immolation.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Africa
Xa Loi
Buddhist Association
Dieu Hue
Buu Hoi
Morocco
Tunisia
Atomic Energy Commission
French Cancer Institute
Quang Due
JFK urges gradual end to immigration country quotas
President Kennedy urged Congress to scrap country by country immigration quotas and replace them with a priority system. The plan favors skilled workers, relatives of residents, and those entering on immigration visas, while reducing existing quotas by 20 percent yearly.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
United States
Nasser unveils new multi stage rocket amid parade
President Nasser presented a two stage rocket with a claimed range above 60 miles and announced the Vanguard rocket exceeding all previous UAR designs. The display also featured Zafir and Kader rockets plus SA2 antiaircraft missiles and Egyptian Al Kahira jet transports. West German help in the program is noted but unnamed.
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George McArthur
CAIRO
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sing Farouk
United Arab Republic
al Kahiras
Pickets Block Trucks At Brooklyn Hospital Site
Antidiscrimination demonstrations blocked access to a Brooklyn hospital construction site as about 1,000 protesters sat or paraded in truck paths. Police arrested 228 at Downstate Medical Center for disorderly conduct while a Queens housing protest saw two arrests. Leaders planned talks with Mayor Wagner about more employment for Black and Puerto Rican workers on public projects.
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New York
Brooklyn
Queens
William Booth
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Gerald S. White
William A. Jones Jr
Committee On Job Opportunities For
Man leaps 1000 feet to death from Empire State Building
New York police say George A. Frost, 35, a former radio operator and recent hotel worker, jumped from the 86th floor after breaking a guard, plunging about 1000 feet and narrowly missing pedestrians on 34th Street. Frost had been a patient at Pilgrim State Hospital on Long Island.
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New York
Empire State Building
34Th Street
George A. Frost
Frost
Pilgrim, State Hospital
Long Island
Governors Push Civil Rights at Governors Conference
Republicans forcefully pressed for a civil rights declaration at the 53rd Governors Conference in Miami Beach under time limits. Democratic leaders, led by Gov Hughes, propose Kennedy welfare and health measures, while Hatfield aims for a GOP minority report to counter. Vice President Johnson to address the state dinner with White House updates on Kennedy’s program.
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Miami Beach
Fila
Cavarnaveni
MurciMerk Uur Pawuca
GOP
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Mark C.hatfield
Oregon
Kennedy
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
Hatfield
Conference Resolutions Committee
Albert D. Rosellini
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
White House
Congress
Exile push against Castro grows with Miami links
Exile leaders including Manuel Artime plan bases in Central America as veterans and commandos train in the United States and speculate on cross border actions. Artime says the group will fight inside Cuba within a year, while Jose and Roberto San Roman and Erneido Oliva are reportedly en route from Ft. Benning to Miami.
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Theodore A. Ediger
Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
U.S
Manuel Artime
Nicaragua
Cuba
Rene Schick
Luis Somoza
Fulgencio Batista
Castro
U.S. Army
Ft. Benning
tJose
Roberto San Roman
Erneido Oliva
Artime
Test ban may be initiated Wednesday by three powers
AP dispatch reports that the Soviet Union Britain and the United States completed work on a treaty banning nuclear tests in air space and under water. Initialing could occur this week with Harriman and Gromyko among negotiators. Senate approval remains uncertain and a congressional delegation to Moscow may be sent.
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Preston Grover
Moscow
Soviet Union
Britain
The
United
States
Wadenandnes
Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Andrei A. Gromyko
North Atlantic
Spiridonovka Palace
Mid-Tion
Warsaw
U.S
Congress
Khrushchev
Senate
United States
W. Averell Harriman
White House
Alerve Salinger
Kennedy
Rourke Hickenloop
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