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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1969
Page
2
Communists shelled the U S Army Long Binh base near Saigon and Bien Hoa air base with 107 mm rockets causing light damage and no casualties at Bien Hoa. U S sources say Viet Cong and North Vietnamese strategists faced losses and a shift in policy due to high casualties.
In Cairo Illinois gunfire erupted Monday night as whites attacked a Negro neighborhood and the Pyramid housing project. Police cars were pinned down by rifle fire with no immediate injuries reported. A NAACP leader described whites entering the area and firing on passing autos.
Judge W Preston Battle who presided over James Earl Ray's two hour trial died of an apparent heart attack in his Shelby County courthouse chambers. The 60 year old jurist had just returned from vacation following the King assassination case and had not heard any new matters. Ray pled guilty March 10 to the MLK murder with a hastily chosen jury. Battle called the verdict a just one and had requested no new trial motions. Autopsy pending. Other items note Robert Wagner fundraising for NYC mayor, Glen Campbell heart transplant patient, Yoko Ono and John Lennon in Vienna for a film premiere, Buck Jones released after mine entombment, and Arnold Toynbee on U.S. changes and Coretta King on poverty policy.
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