Administration Officials Reject Public Vietnam Hearings
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara declined invitations to testify publicly before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preferring closed sessions where classified information can be kept from public view. President Johnson aides, including Gen Maxwell Taylor, argued that intensified bombing would not shorten the war and that quick victory plans rely on specific targets that do not exist.
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Washington
U.S
Vietnam
Congress
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rusk
McNamara
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Afl-Cio
Los Angeles
America
Hanoi
Pentagon
Maxwell Taylor
North Vietnam
Taylor
Saigon
Johnson
Photograph renews father's hope for missing U S Captain
A North Vietnam photograph aired by the Viet Nam News Agency appears to show U S Captain John R Schumann, long listed as dead, alive in a POW camp. Pentagon officials say no such name appears on missing lists. Schumann's father reacts with cautious hope as family seeks clarity.
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Minn
North Vietnam
Pentagon
Hanoi
Vietnam
Tokyo
VNA
U.S
Shumann
Defense
John R. Schumann
Defense Department
South Vietnam
John P. Schumann
Schumann
Reagan credits luck for sea radiogram interception
Governor Reagan says luck and accident led to his reception of a White House radiogram at sea, while ship officials suspend Chief Radio Operator Charles Berger pending an investigation. Reagan denies any party involvement and questions why he should pursue how the message reached him.
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California
Ronald Reagan
White House
Independence
Charles E. Reilly
Radio Shack
Isbrandtsen Lines
Reagan
Great Society
Reilly
Charles Berger
Texas
Price Daniel
Johnson
Sacramento
Calif
Accused Mass Murderer Leo Held Dies Of Wounds
Leo Held, 40, former school board member, died at Lock Haven Hospital from a heart blood clot after a gun battle with police. Six killed and six wounded in a Hammermill Paper Co shooting spree. Floyd Quiggle, 27, was slain. Mrs Quiggle and Mrs G Schuyler Ramm among the wounded. Funeral held for a co worker. authorities remain mystified about motive.
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Lock Haven
Leo Held
Lock Haven Hospital
Held
Pennsylvania
Floyd Quiggle
Hammermill Paper Co
Hammermill
Smylie Installed as Queens College President
Dr. John Edwin Smylie was inaugurated as president of Queens College in Charlotte after assuming duties on June 15. He previously served as chaplain and associate professor of religion at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Indians vanish from Bridgeport youths aim for Tacoma
Four American Indian boys, ages 14, 12, 12, and 10, disappeared from their Bridgeport home Monday with a neighbor. They left a note saying they were unhappy and headed west to Tacoma to live with their mother, according to their father Daniel Perry.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Tacoma
Wash
Daniel Perry
Bridgeport
Daniel
Peter
Anthony
Wilfred
Patrick Perry
Fire destroys interior of Wayside Inn in Ellenville
The Wayside Inn a four story wooden hotel in Ellenville New York suffered interior destruction after a fire. Fire Chief George Garrison reported one male employee was missing after authorities checked his top floor room before flames reached it. Several permanent guest residents escaped via fire escapes and the main stairway as flames erupted in the Catskill village center.
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Ellenville
N.Y
Wayside Inn
George Garrison
Garrison
Catskill Mountains
Credibility Lost Says Romney at GOP Dinner
Michigan Governor George Romney lashed President Johnson’s administration for a credibility gap, citing Vietnam as the chief issue. He spoke to about 750 Republicans at a fundraiser, beginning an eight day, ten state tour, and reiterated remarks about propaganda and brainwashing.
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Bismarck
N.D
Michigan
George Romney
Johnson
Romney
Vietnam
Rural Free Delivery Begins in West Virginia in 1896
Rural free delivery postal service was tried out for the first time in 1896 from Charles Wee Halltown and Uville in West Virginia marking an early experiment in expanded mail routes.
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Charles Wee Halltown
Uville
W. Va
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