JFK Takes Off On Western Tour
President Kennedy opens a western travel schedule visiting Colorado Springs for a Air Force Academy commencement and NAIDC headquarters tour. He will visit Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and California with mayor conference in Honolulu and two Democratic events in Los Angeles.
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Drews Air Force Base
Maryland
Colorado Springs
Colo
Air Force Academy
North American Air Defense Command
Kennedy
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
California
Washington
Pacific
Los Angeles
Burbank
Calif
Kenedy
Academy
Air Defense Command
Restaurant Windows Shot Out in Racially Noted Incident
In Wadesboro North Carolina two establishments were hit by gunfire early Tuesday including the Tea Room which had recently begun seating Negro customers. Police said no arrests and no known motive though the shootings remain under investigation tied to possible integration tensions.
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Wadesboro, N.C
Wadesboro
W. P. Lane
Reginald Lomax
Judge bars Wallace from blocking campus desegregation
federal judge Seybourn H. Lynne enjoined Gov. George Wallace from interfering with the University of Alabama desegregation order. Wallace vowed to block integration while 2,000 federal troops stand by at Ft. McClellan. Ensuing events include Meredith at Mississippi and Durham pledges to end segregation with local hires.
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Birmingham
Ala
George Wallace
University of Alabama
U.S. Dist
Seybourn H. Lynne
Wallace
Justice Department
United States
Lynne
Alabama
Ft. McClellan
Misssissippi
North Carolina
James H. Meredith
University of Mississippi
Mississippi
Cleve McDowell
Allen
Sidney Mize
McDowell
Mize
Meredith
Durham
Duke University
Anthao Lucy
Huntsville
David M. McGlathery
Redstone Arsenal Space Agency
H. Hobart Grooms
Japanese crewmen feared lost in fishing vessel collision
In the Atlantic northwest of Puerto Rico the Kaig Maru sank after colliding with the Italian tanker Fina Italia. Between 10 and 20 Japanese crewmen are missing, with 15 rescued to date. The Fina Italia is docked. Dr. Alexander Agenov attended the injured aboard. Soviet reports on rescues remain unclear.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Coast Guard
Fina Italia
Alexander Agenov
U. S. Coast Guard
Odessa
Konstantin Koshelyaev
Tehran Riots Kill Over 20 as Shah Fortified
Heavy police and troops fought Shiite mobs in Tehran amid protests against land reform and women’s rights. Officials report more than twenty killed in the first hour and about a thousand injured. The Shah and Queen were protected near the palace as riots spread through downtown and the bazaar.
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Tehran
Iran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
U.S
Tehran University
Assadullah Alam
Hassan Pakrevan
Pakistan
Mercy Killing Ends Diplomat's Life and Wife's
Police report the wife of Denmark's former ambassador Henrik Kauffmann slit his throat and killed herself with the same knife at a coastal clinic near Copenhagen. The 63 year old Charlotte MacDougall killed to end his suffering from cancer and left letters for relatives.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
United States
Henrik Kauffmann
Kauffmann
Charlotte MacDougall
Beaufort, S.C
William D. MacDougall
Districting Bill Taken Up In House
The North Carolina House resumes debate on redistricting the state Senate after third reading of a bill. The measure would add two senators for Mecklenburg Forsyth Guilford and Cumberland counties and raise total Senate seats to 52 with a two per county cap. The Senate already acted Tuesday on a piggyback plan.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Mecklenburg
Forsyth
Guilford
Cumberland County
Compet Sie
Kennedy urges 100 business leaders to speed desegregation
Washington AP Kennedy asks 100 Southern business executives to push faster in breaking racial barriers in stores, restaurants, and theaters. They discuss voluntary integration but hesitate on mandatory laws. some urge gradual action to avoid riots while many chain firms vow to begin desegregating with discreet steps.
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Kennedy
Mertary Integration Program
Iniedith
Washington
South
White House
States
District of Columbia
Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
Milton
Pur Se Gate
Alexandria
Virginia
Suggestion Box approval moves money-saving idea plan forward
In Raleigh, a suggestion box bill to reward state workers for saving money won grudging Senate approval after House approval. The plan would run two years with rewards up to 1000 dollars. Separate board for land surveyors discussed as hearings drew many opponents and support.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
Gordon Hanes
Forsyth
Hanes
Thomas White
Lenoir
Walter Fuller
Robert Calder
New Hanover
Kennedy Warns Against Nuclear Stalemate at Air Force Academy
President Kennedy urged in Colorado that embracing a nuclear stalemate could trigger war, then voiced optimism in humanity's ability to prevail. He framed security as more than stockpiles, cautioned against Cuban missiles, and outlined Western tour and commencement addresses at the Air Force Academy.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Kennedy
U.S. Air Force Academy
Academy
Thousands File Past Pope John XXIII in St. Peter's Basilica
Tens of thousands filed past Pope John XXIII's body in Rome as cardinals met to plan a conclave for a new pope. The dean shattered the late pope's fisherman's ring, a new ring to be made, and the conclave was set for June 19.
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John XXIII
St. Peter's Basilica
Rome
Vatican
Sistine Chapel
Pope John
College of Cardinals
Ecumenical Council
Catafalque
St. Peter's Square
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James A. Hood
East Gadsden
Tuscaloosa
Ayatullah Kho
Kaufmann
Washigton
Free World
Greenland
Foundation
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