Miami riot looting follows black power rally
In Liberty City Miami a crowd resisted dispersal after a black power rally. Police used tear gas and a show of force as looting spread to at least five stores. Governor Claude Kirk activated a 500 man National Guard task force and Rev Ralph Abernathy urged calm during a joint tour with the governor.
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Liberty City
Newell Horne
Florida
Claude Kirk
National Guard
Kirk
Convention Hall
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Pair Held in Adopted Son's Death
An Anaheim couple Grant Hubbs and Virginia Hubbs were indicted by the Orange County Grand Jury on willful cruelty charges in the death of their 5 month old adopted son Hansel Seyler Hubbs. The infant died at Children’s Hospital in Orange from a massive skull fracture after hospital doctors reported abuse. The arraignment was delayed to August 23 in Santa Ana Superior Court. An earlier adopted child, Hansel Stephen Hubbs, died in June 1967 from a congenital heart defect.
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Orange County
Grand Jury
Grant Hubbs
Virginia
Supermarket Checker
Hansel Seyler Hubbs
Childrens Hospital
Orange
Spencer Alter
Santa Ana Superior Court
Hubbs
Hansel Stephen Hubbs
Anaheim General Hospital
Long Beach Loses Two Warships in Navy Economy Drive
Long Beach will see 50 ships deactivated and eight naval air squadrons cut as the Defense Department reduces military spending by 3 billion dollars under a 1969 budget plan. The USS Cimarron and USS Mathews, both decades old, head a list of ships slated for deactivation, with 32 Atlantic Fleet and 18 Pacific Fleet ships affected.
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Long Beach
Defense Department
Pentagon
Congress
Craig Hosmer
Cimarron
Mathews
Atlantic
Pacific
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Hosmer
Rockefeller Angered by Nixon Campaign Tactics
Nelson Rockefeller criticized Richard Nixon for tactics he said splinter the GOP and unite Democrats. The campaign veteran described Nixon as blocking acceptable legislation and not naming a vice presidential candidate, claiming the party cannot win nationally with a candidate beholden to Southern delegates.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Rockefeller
Final Try for Votes A Scramble at Convention Hall
Delegates and guests faced a noisy session with demonstrations and banners smuggled in under bleachers. Reagan and Nixon camps staged TV friendly actions as 15,000+ people filled Convention Hall amid high ticket scalping, rail hospitality, and marching parade stunts.
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Disneyland
Convention Hall
Airlines
Four Arrested for Passing Bogus Twenty Dollar Bills
Long Beach detectives rounded up four suspects for counterfeiting after four fake $20 bills circulated in the Nu-Pike area. Darlene Holden Johnny Thomas Thomas Johnson III and Shirley Carruthers, all Los Angeles residents, held awaiting U.S. Secret Service arrival. Officials linked two counterfeit notes to the Pike Inn and another to Harold's Cafe near 309 and 317 West Pike.
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Long Beach
Nu-Pike
U.S
Secret Service
Darlene Holden
Johnny Thomas
Thomas Johnson III
Shirley J. Carruthers
Los Angeles
G. H. Dickinson
R. L. Russell
Miss Holden
Thomas
Pike Inn
W. Pike
Harold
Nixon Wins on First Ballot at convention amid fierce Reagan push
Reagan launched a last minute push with delegates in a parked van outside Convention Hall as Nixon moved toward a first ballot victory. Delegates from Florida to Oklahoma attended rallies while banners and balloons flooded the floor and Nixon secured support despite rival demonstrations led by Rockefeller and others.
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Oklahoma
Convention
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North Carolina
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Georgia
Washington
Missouri
Montana
Iowa
Page Belcher
Louisiana
Ivy Baker Priest
California
Pat Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Nancy
Claude R. Kirk Jr
Rockefeller
Gerald Ford
Senate
William F. Knowland
Robert Price
Texas
James E. Gardner
Ford
Alaska
Walter J. Hickel
Howard W. Pollock
Hickel
Pollock
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas
New York
Michigan
George Romney
Robert P. Griffin
Republican National Committee
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Edward E. Johnston
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Pennsylvania
Raymond P. Shafer
Maryland
Spiro Agnew
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Randolph
Triton
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Alabama
Walter Hinkel
Micro
Kentucky
Pat Paulsen
William Scranton
Paulsen
Charles Percy
Illinois
Rogers Morton
Carl
Walkers
Victoria
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