Convicts Battle Police In Woods Near Valdese
In Burke County North Carolina four inmates escaped from a McDowell County road gang. Two suspects J W Privette and Marshall Lee Powell surrendered without resistance in the High Peak area. Ralph Seagle and Robert Miller remained at large as more than 200 officers scoured the mountains after a nighttime gun battle.
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Valdese
N. C
Prison Department
High Peak Mountain
J. W. Privette
Monroe
Marshall Lee Powell
High Peak
Ralph Seagle
Robert Miler
Asheville
McDowell
Interstate 40
Burke County
Sheriff's Department
David Oaks
Sheriff's
Ruby Is Sentenced to Death in Oswald Killing Verdict
Dallas jurors convict Jack Ruby of murder with malice in two hours and nineteen minutes, rejecting an insanity plea. Ruby, 52, shot Lee Harvey Oswald near the courthouse, with a defense fight by Melvin Belli failing to move the trial.
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Ruby
Jack Ruby
Dallas
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
Oswald
Mildred McCollum
Testimony of Officers Cited in Ruby Case Conviction
Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade credited police officers testimony as the key factor in Jack Ruby s conviction and death sentence. Wade said their statements showed premeditation and malice in the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald two days earlier.
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Dallas
Tex
Henry M. Wade
Jack Ruby
Lee
Harvey Oswald
Belli Rages After Ruby Verdict in Dallas
Defense lawyer Melvin Belli shouted against the death penalty for Jack Ruby, calling the verdict a kangaroo railroad and vowing to appeal. He criticized Dallas, Judge Joe Brown, and the trial's late hours while claiming reversible errors and denial of psychiatric defense.
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Ruby
Kennedy
Melvin M. Belli
Joe B. Brown
Belli
Dallas
San Francisco
Dallas Tex
Jack Ruby
United States
Russia
America
Brown
Joe Tonnhill
No. 2
GOP Charge In Baker Case Denied
Washington AP Curtis releases evidence claiming Senate Rules Committee chair was ready to announce a 6 3 vote ending the Bobby Baker probe but balked by Republicans. He accuses Sen Jordan of being under orders to halt the hearings on Baker’s business affairs. Jordan is praised as a fine man.
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Washington
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Senate Rules Committee
Bobby Baker
Curtis
B. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
Baker
Senate
Sen
Jordan
GOP
Hate Mongering Charged in Civil Rights Bill Debate
Senator Kenneth Keating charged that hatemongering is spread by foes of the House passed civil rights bill. He cited propaganda and misinformation fueling opposition, noting New Yorkers split in opinion. He pointed to the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms as a front for Mississippi linked groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N. Y
Senate
Keating
Judiciary Committee
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
New York
Coordinating Committee For Fundamental American Freedoms, Inc
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Fi Paine
Mississippi
Canadian Troops Arrive on Cyprus Peace Mission
Canadian troops joined the U N peace force on Cyprus arriving by air as part of a 1,000 man contingent. The advance guard of 42 officers and men from the Royal Canadian Air Force and two regiments landed in Nicosia to back British peacekeeping efforts amid Turkish Cypriot fears of further clashes.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
U.N
Cyprus
U.S
Chant
Royal Canadian Air Force
Yukon
Royal 22Nd Regiment
Royal Canadian Dragons
U.N. Peace Force
Carlos Flores de Paiva Chaves
Brazil
Edward C. Amy
Andrew Woodcock
Sarnia
Ont
U.N. Force For Cyprus Bolstered With Troops
Finland and Sweden sent battalions to the U N peacekeeping mission in Cyprus, bringing total troops to about 2 250 with Canada’s 2 250 more expected. Aimed force is 7 000, with Britain funding part and Ireland pledging 500. Brazil declined to commit after prior talks. Some calm returned to Nicosia as Canadian advance parties arrived amid fear of renewed violence.
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United Nations, N. Y
Finland
Sweden
U. N
Cyprus
Canada
Ottawa
U Thant
Ireland
Nicosia
Seaiiet
Carlos Flores de Paiva Chaves
Thant
Austria
Brazil
U.N
Turkey
Stella Souliou
Hoffa loses bid for new trial in jury tampering case
CHATTANOOGA Tenn AP Teamsters Union President James R Hoffa convicted on jury tampering charges loses a bid for a new trial Judge Frank Wilson overrules motions for a new trial by Hoffa and three others all four defendants await notices to appeal by March 24 They remain free on bond Medlin to be tried in Nashville after venue ruling and Wilson plans Nashville trip March 30 for Medlin case.
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Chattanooga
Medlin
Hoffa
Thomas E. Parks
Nashville
Detroit Teamsters
Larry Campbell
Ewing King
Nashville Teamsters
6Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Appelate
Soviet GDP says 60 Percent of U S Level in 1963
Moscow says Soviet gross national product in 1963 was over 60 percent of the United States, with industrial output at about 65 percent of U S levels. Vladimir Starovsky cites Pravda figures denying a U S congressional report of stagnation in the Soviet economy.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Vladimir Starovsky
Communist Party
Pravda
U. S
Johnson
Starovsky
Soviet Academy of Sciences
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Thomasville
TA Society
Melvin Belli
Criminal Courts
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Tom Wilson
Canadian Army
Mediterranean
Edward A. C. Amy
Kentville
N.S
Vincent Cook
Raymore
Sask
C. Joe Crowe
Guelph
C. Robert Murray
London
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