Voter turnout and key races in Los Angeles County
California races loom with Kuchel fending off Rafferty for Senate. Cranston seeks Democratic nomination amid strong GOP field. Supervisors Chace Dorn Hahn Younger face re‑election. Los Angeles ballots include four city measures and 12 county items amid Democratic edge and third party entries.
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Rockefeller
U.S. Senate
Sen
Kuchel
Max Rafferty
GOP
Kennedy
Alan Cranston
U.S
Cranston
Anthony C. Béilenson
Los Angeles
William M. Bennett
Burton W. Chace
Warren M. Dorn
Chace
Board of Supervisors
Ventira County
Orange County
William T.gharvat
Carson
Dorn
Pasadena
Fred Gage
Lyndon R. Foster
Kenneth Hahn
Billy G. Mills
Hahn
Mills
Dist. Atty
Younger
Mike Hannon
Los Angeles Convention Center
Santa Monica
Republcans
American Independent Party
Alabama
C. Wallace
The
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Kennedy and McCarthy Trade Barbs in California
Kennedy and McCarthy heated up California stops with sharp attacks on Vietnam policy and each other. McCarthy challenged Kennedy over Bay of Pigs and missile crises while Kennedy urged social security raises and warned against Humphrey. California primary looms as polls hint at leads but votes will decide.
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McCarthy
Plimpton
Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
California
Desert
Quayle
Death Row Hopes High in Ruling
Supreme Court rules death sentences invalid if juries are purged of jurors with objections to capital punishment. California faces multiple clemency challenges as 7 death row inmates may appeal. Justice Black and others protest impact on impartial juries while William Witherspoon case prompts new review.
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Ronald Reagan
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
John M. Harlan
Byron R. White
California
San Quentin
James Park
Potter Stewart
William C. Witherspoon
Chicago
Mitchell Stone
High Court
Stewart
Justice Stewart
Hunt for Chicken Shop Manager's Killer Shifts Gears
Homicide detectives continued the search for Kenneth Voorhees 28 a manager at a North Long Beach fried chicken shop shot during a Saturday night stick up Police initially thought he electrocuted himself but an autopsy 15 hours later found a bullet in his heart Investigators who started work after the autopsy Sunday report no clues to the assailant's identity
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Kenneth Voorhees
North Long Beach
Voorhees
100 Acres Burn In Saugus Brush Fire
A brush fire in the Saugus area burned 100 acres of grass and brush near Soledad Canyon Road and Sierra Highway Monday. There were no injuries or damaged structures. The blaze began at 3:45 PM and was controlled about 1 hour 15 minutes later by 125 county firemen.
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Saugus
CNS
Soledad Canyon Road
Sierra Highway
Brown backs McCarthy in California primary twist
Former Gov. Edmund G. Brown said his Tuesday vote would go to Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy because Hubert Humphrey's name is not on California's primary ballot. Brown stated he favors Humphrey but cannot vote for him in California.
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Kennedy
North Korea
America
Los Angeles
UPI
Edmund G. Brown
Eugene J. McCarthy
Hubert Humphrey
California
Brown
Poor in Washington Protest L A Arrests
About 400 demonstrators gathered outside the Justice Department in Washington to press for the release of Mexican-Americans jailed in Los Angeles and to seek an investigation into the March 1968 high school walkout indictments. A 100-person delegation sought to meet Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark but was refused.
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Justice Department
Washington
Atty
Ramsey Clark
Los Angeles
Clark
George M. Dell
John David Sanchez
Sanchez
Salvadore B. “Sal” Castro
Eliezer Lazado Risco
Man Killed in Freeway Auto Crash
A 23 year old Torrance man Wayne Simoulis was killed when his car crashed into a divider fence on the Garden Grove Freeway after leaving Mexico. He was thrown from the vehicle and died on arrival at Orange County Medical Center. His driver Robert James Zack and passenger Peter Pepe, both from Torrance, suffered minor injuries. Nancy Carol Ray of Norco injured in crash. she and Zack treated at the center.
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Mexico
Garden Grove
California Highway Patrol
Wayne Simoulis
Winlock Drive
Orange County Medical Center
Simoulis
Robert James Zack
Peter Pepe
Grand Summit Road
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