Assembly Revamping Planned for North Carolina Legislature
Reported from Raleigh observers discuss modeling the General Assembly with one house based on population and the other on geography under a constitutional amendment. Rep. John Henley and others push action by 1970 while noting Senate redistricting bills and guard presence at the university as National Guard protection shields a newly admitted Black student.
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Start of a New Era as Negro Students Enter Alabama University
In Tuscaloosa Alabama two Negro students Vivian Malone Hood and James Hood began classes at the University of Alabama amid a tranquil campus scene. A third student Dave McGlathery planned to enroll at the Huntsville center. Gov. Wallace declined to say if he would again confront the doorway.
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George C. Wallace
Eisenhower Calls Moon Race Nuts at House Breakfast
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower told House Republicans the moon race is nuts and criticized Kennedy fiscal policy. He urged sticking to party principles, argued defense is adequate and more spending would not buy more defense, and supported voting rights to all before further civil rights laws.
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Republicans
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Kennedy
Generd
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Lexington riot leads to murder charge for youth
A 19 year old Lexington Negro youth was charged with murder in the shooting death of Fred Link during racially charged violence. Joe Poole and six other youths were arrested and face multiple counts including assault with a deadly weapon, wounding a photographer, riot, and being accessories after the fact.
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High Point
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Needie” Smith
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Larry Wayne Winston
Charles Peele
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Robert Neil Hairston
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Link
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Smith
Medgar Evers Shot In Mississippi Leader Assassination
Jackson police recovered the murder rifle used to kill Medgar W. Evers, the NAACP Mississippi field secretary, as investigators and the FBI pressed for leads in the deadly shooting. Evers died at University Medical Center after being shot in the driveway near his home early today. Police described the weapon as a 3030 deer rifle and said three men were seen fleeing the scene.
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Smeeta
Kennedy Outlines Broad Civil Rights Program
President Kennedy calls for a sweeping civil rights plan to desegregate public life. He urges Congress to prohibit discrimination in stores hotels and theaters and to empower federal action to desegregate schools. The remarks stress a nonviolent path and a moral crisis facing the nation amid Alabama events.
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Districting Issue Goes To Senate
The House sent the redistricting measure back to the Senate by an 87 to 38 vote after striking a piggyback proposal to amend the state constitution. The plan would split the sixth district and form a new seventh with Carteret, Onslow, Craven, Green, Jones, and Lenoir counties. The Senate postponed its vote on a $200 million highway bond measure.
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Gemini Next Mercury orbital flights ended
Space Chief James E Webb announced there will be no additional Mercury orbital flights. The United States will proceed with the two man Gemini program to develop space docking and prepare for Apollo. Webb said Mercury flights would delay Gemini and the moon mission timeline.
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Eisenhower
Washington
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Webb
Senate Space Committee
Robert Seamans Jr
Hugh Dryden
Project Mercury
Mercury
Demonstrators clash with police at Harlem hospital site
About 150 protesters and police clashed at the Harlem Hospital construction site on Kenox Avenue and 136th Street as pickets tried to block entry. Three people were injured, two of them Black, delaying start of work by about 40 minutes. NAACP official Herbert Hill criticized police actions and accused City Hall of not enforcing anti discrimination laws in construction.
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136Th Street
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New York City
Slaying Shocks Attorney General in Jackson
Attorney General Robert F Kennedy said he was saddened and shocked by the slaying of Medgar Evers in Jackson Mississippi and asked the FBI to cooperate with Jackson Police. Congress lawmakers voiced shock and urged swift civil rights action, with calls for a strong bill and concern over federal judges in the South delaying decisions.
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Medgar W. Evers
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