Execution Dates Wiped Out Four Times
Preston Cobb Jr., an 18 year old Black youth, has seen four execution dates erased since his 1961 death sentence for killing Frank Dumas Jr. in Jasper County Georgia. The case highlights juvenile death penalty issues and racial juror exclusion claims. Cobb remains on death row in Reidsville State Prison as appeals proceed.
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Cobb
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Georgia
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Atlanta
J. Ben Warren
Warren
Monticello
Donald L. Hallowell
Jasper County
Reidsville State Prison
Hoffa Conspiracy Trial Links Hoffa to Jury Tampering Claim
Partin a Baton Rouge Teamsters official testified in Nashville that he provided government reports on Hoffa to alleged jury tampering. He said Hoffa and his lawyers pursued attempts to reach the jury, with details reported to Walter Sheridan. Defense counsel Berke pressed Partin on past arrests and a Marine Corps discharge as part of challenging his credibility.
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Teamsters Union
Baton Rouge
Hoffa
Nashville
Walter J. Sheridan
U.S
Berke
Marine Corps
U.S. Winter Olympic skiers charged in Innsbruck clash
Three U S team members Bill March George Farmer and Mike Hessel appeared in an Austrian court after a predawn car chase and clash with police at Innsbruck station They faced resisting arrest unauthorized use of an automobile and earlier car theft charges If convicted they could face up to five years in jail Officials alleged police beatings at the station while the athletes claimed they were intoxicated and targeted by authorities The owner of the car said the Americans had permission to use it and planned no charges against March
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Aspen
Cole
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Ore
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Seattle
Wash
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Montant
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Hessel
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Marolt
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Bor
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Bill Kerth
Mexican Presidents to Meet Johnson at Desert Resort
Palm Springs Calif AP President Johnson and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos will hold talks this month at a lavish Lou Taubman estate. Taubman, a wealthy real estate man, offered use of his stone and glass home with a spectacular desert resort view for the meeting.
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Adalfo Lopez Mateos
Louis Taubman
Ami Glass
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Taubman
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Riviera Hotel
Palin Springs
Possible Thrill Killer At San Diego Sniper Case
Police say a thrill killer may be the sniper who murdered a newlywed couple strolling a San Diego beach. Navy radioman Swindle and his wife Joyce, both 19 and from Jasper Alabama, were found shot by a passerby. Investigators note no robbery motive and consider a killer acting from excitement. A Valentine candy box was found on a retaining wall. gunfire came from a cliff ledge above the Pacific Ocean as the moonless night muffled the shots.
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Calif
Navy Radioman 3
C. Johny Ray Swindle
Joyce
Jasper
Ala
Ed de Bolt
William Schenck
Pacific Ocean
U.S. vows to keep Guantanamo base water supply
President Johnson and advisers scrambled to respond after Cuba halted water to Guantanamo Naval Base over 36 Cuban fishermen seized near Florida. Castro offered one hour of water daily while insisting the cutoff stay in effect. Officials weighed if the fishing incident staged a provocation amid Cold War tensions.
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Soviet Union
Oswald and wife speak on immigration and loyalty test
Oswald, a 22 year old mother of two, aims for citizenship and better English while educating her children and not remarrying. In a Warren Commission session her honesty about fairness was questioned, with her lawyer clarifying the query. She contrasted the judges’ fairness with her grandfather, then described her husband’s Mexico City visa quest and Russia ties.
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John M. Thorne
Warren
Oswald
Mexico City
Cuba
Russia
Couple Married Before Tragic Jasper Slaying
Police described the deaths as a kind of coup de grace. Swindle and his childhood sweetheart wed January 18 in Jasper Alabama. The couple had honeymooned in a three room cottage nine blocks from the scene where they were killed.
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Swindle
Jasper
Ala
Weather warms with mixed conditions across Missouri
Weather outlook for East and South Missouri with partly cloudy skies today. Highs near 40 in the extreme south and in the 303 region elsewhere. Lows tonight 15 to 20 northeast and 20 to 25 elsewhere. Tonight and Saturday generally fair but colder today and tonight.
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Missouri
Arkansas Senators Push Against Repeal And Tax Aid
Washington AP Arkansas' Senators helped defeat a 48 45 vote on a repeal of federal excise taxes on jewelry handbags cosmetics and furs. Senator Fulbright opposed a tax bill amendment to raise standard minimum deductions to aid low income families while Senator McClellan did not vote on the amendment, which failed 71 23.
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Washington
Arkansas
J. William Fulbright
John L. McClellan
Witness describes husband as normal man in Walker shooting case
In a Q and A style exchange the woman says her husband was a normal man. She clarifies that firing at General Walker was not normal for anyone. The reporter questions whether shooting at Walker and others was abnormal, and she agrees it was.
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Gen. Walker
Walker
Czech Envoy Talks With 36 Cubans In Florida
A Czech Embassy official in Washington met with 36 Cubans arrested for fishing in Florida waters at the Monroe County Jail gym. He spoke with 29 adults held on $1,000 bond and with seven juveniles freed by Judge Thomas Caro. The fate of the detainees and their return to Cuba remained undetermined.
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Fla
Washington
Florida
Naval
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Frantisek Telicka
Monroe County
Thomas Caro
Telicka
Black man convicted of rape in Pulaski County
Roosevelt Ingram, 33, a Black man from North Little Rock, was convicted in Pulaski County Circuit Court of raping a 17 year old Black girl on January 11. A jury of three Black and nine white jurors set a life sentence. sentencing was postponed 48 hours to allow appeals.
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Roosevelt Ingram
North Little Rock
Pulaski County
William J. Kirby
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