LBJ Urges Rights Law Obedience Across the Nation
President Johnson pushes civil rights legislation with a five point plan to implement federal authority when local action fails. He nominates Leroy Collins to direct the Community Relations Service and outlines commissions, funding, agency duties, and citizen groups to promote understanding and compliance. The speech appeals for unity while acknowledging deep rooted racism and notes broad bipartisan support in Congress.
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Leroy Collins
Florida
Community Relations Service
Collins
National Association of Broadcasters
Congress
Public reaction mixed as new civil rights bill advances
The article reports mixed responses across the South and other states to a sweeping civil rights bill. Hotel and restaurant managers in South Carolina and New Orleans anticipate compliance with desegregation provisions, while some fear business loss. CORE and congressional leaders urge testing of provisions banning discrimination in public accommodations. Local committees in Georgia and Alabama prepare actions, with plans for organized resistance or support as architects of the law move forward.
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Wade Hampton
Icolumbia
S.C
South Carolina
Nestros
Wesley Graves
Fort Sumter
Charleston
Lémpis
New Orleans
Hat
Congress of Racial Iequality
Richard Haley
CORE
Valdosta
Birmingham
Tred L. Shuttlesworth
Alabam
Christian Movement For Human Rights
New Pilgrim Church
Viet Rebels Seize Convoy in Central Highlands Clash
Viet Cong guerrillas halted a Vietnamese army convoy in the central highlands seizing its trucks and weapons. An American helicopter arrived to engage the rebels with machine guns and rockets, scattering them into the jungle and preventing further convoy escape. The raid left the guerrillas with a machine gun and 30 individual weapons.
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Viek Cong
Lutherans Greeted by Catholic Bishop at Convention
Pittsburgh AP reporting Bishop John J. Wright of the Roman Catholic Diocese greeted Lutheran Church in America delegates as brothers in Christ marking a first address by a Catholic bishop to a Lutheran convention in America. Wright spoke of shared heritage and future ecumenical work amid praise from Dr. Franklin Fry. Delegates gave a standing ovation.
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John J. Wright
Thesday
Lutheran Church In America
Ataica
Wright
Franklin Clark Fry
Bishop Wright
Fry
Indusstry
Marvin H. Lunchdeen
New York
Rightists and school resignations spur debate on desegregation
The piece notes 18 teachers resigned amid intense discord in schools amid right and left tactics. Nas reports most new offers and college plans, while Kennan of the MEA cites four shared extremism tactics. Delegates delay action on a watered-down desegregation plan granting the NEA executive committee power to act.
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Cal
Richard B. Kennan
MEA
Commission On Professional Rights and Responsibilities
America
NEA
Head-On Crash Involving Minister Near Fullerton
A head-on collision on U S 395 involved Reverend Gerald Bos, minister at Hollywood First Methodist Church, and another driver. Patrol reports the accident occurred Thursday while returning from a fishing trip.
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Fullerton Couph
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Thursdayinn
Kathe
W.H St
Gerald Bos
Hollywood First Methodist Church
Bostack
U.S. 395
Highway Patrol
Rep Bob Wilson Explains His Rights Vote
Rep. Bob Wilson of California said he voted against the civil rights bill because the Senate failed to make the House version more palatable including the public accommodations title. He noted the Senate amendments increased the attorney general’s authority and made the bill harder to swallow.
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Auanta
Anothw
Howard W. Smith
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Johnson
House
Senate
William Am. McCule
Loch
Ohie
Pearl Harbor Day 25th Anniversary Observance Planned
Fragmentary text notes a Pearl Harbor Day remembrance for the 25th anniversary of the Japanese attack that drew the United States into World War II. It mentions a resolution and a request to designate December 7 as Pearl Harbor Day.
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Washington LA
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White House
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