Floods Tornadoes Mar Mother's Day Across the Nation
Severe weather disrupted Mother's Day from Texas to New England with heavy rain and tornadoes. In Texas a tornado damaged a home and a barn near Galveston as others touched down near Port Arthur. Flooding trapped miners in West Virginia and prompted a major search while violent incidents, a near-bombing in Nashville, and crime notes filled stories from Florida to Laos and Illinois.
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Texas
New England
Algea
Galveston
Port Acres
Port Arthur
Anderson
S.C
Hickory
N.C
Providence
R.I
Windsor Locks
Conn
Worcester
Mass
Vero Beach
Fla
Nantucket
Notable Absences Mark King Legacy and Public Figures
A collage of brief notes shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave away royalties and his Nobel prize money to civil rights groups and churches, leaving no estate or will. Other items include pilots in trouble, Rhonda Cook meeting The Monkees star, Apollo crew reflections, and a German professor reenacting Hess’s flight to Scotland with Hess’s release plea.
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King
Morehouse College
SCLC
Ebenezer Baptist Church
NAACP
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Ebenezer Church
Hilton Heir Arrested On Sunset Boulevard For Reckless Driving
William Barron Hilton twenty a grandson of Conrad Hilton was arrested on Sunset Boulevard on reckless driving charges. He reportedly told officers I am Barry Hilton and you are in trouble and you dont know what trouble is. Hilton released pending hearing May seventeenth. H Rap Brown faces federal firearms act charges in New Orleans federal court today.
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William Barron Hilton
Conrad Hilton
Sunset Boulevard
Young Hilton
Barry Hilton
Black Power
H. Rap Brown
Federal District Court
New Orleans
Pompidou Seeks Confidence After Week of Riots
Premier Georges Pompidou sought to restore faith in the Gaullist regime as student unrest and a nationwide general strike shook France. Paris hosted Vietnam peace talks amid world scrutiny, and the government offered concessions to students to calm tensions.
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Vientiane
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Paris
Souvanna
Hanoi
Peking
Georges Pompidou
Panama election marks high turnout amid fraud accusations
Thousands of Panamanians voted in extreme heat for a new president and 42 National Assembly members. The polls were peaceful overall but reports include stolen ballot boxes, intimidation, and arrests of opposition leaders amid government pressures.
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Panama
National Assembly
Classifieds notice from Long Beach publication date May 13 1968
Classified advertisement details from a Long Beach California paper dated May 13 1968. Mentions Sixth Street and Pico Avenue locations, mail delivery, and past adjudication by a Superior Court in Los Angeles County with decree number C-10280.
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Picane Ave
Long Beach 12
Calif
Long Beach
I Calif
Superior Court
Los Angeles County
France performs 14th heart transplant in Paris
Dr Charles Dubost at Broussais Hospital in Paris conducts the world's 14th heart transplant on an unidentified 45 year old priest in satisfactory condition. France's prior two recipients Clovis Roblain and Joseph Eli Reynes died. John M Stuckwish of Alpine Texas in serious condition after his transplant at St Luke's Hospital. Everett C Thomas of Phoenix enters his 10th day post transplant in excellent condition. Murder charged in donor death.
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France
Charles Dubost
Broussais Hospital
Paris
Clovis Roblain
Joseph Eli Reynes
John M. Stuckwish
Alpine
Tex
St. Luke’s Hospital
Houston
Everett C. Thomas
Phoenix
Ariz
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World Today
Harriman
America
W. Averell Harriman
Notre Dame de Paris
Hotel Majestic
Combined News Services
Saigon
Truong Trung Doan
101St Airborne Division
Hue
U.S
Dong Ha
Panhandle
Moscow
Soviet Union
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Russia
East Germany
Poland
Hungary
Bulgaria
Bucharest
Prague
Janos Kadar
Kremlin
Tokyo
Chinese Communist Party
Ho Chi Minh
South Vietnam
Red China
Hominy Falls
W. Va
Gauley Coal and Coke Co
Fort Lauderdale
Palmetto
Nashville
Tenn
Municipal Auditorium
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois Supreme Court
Richard F. Speck
Litthich
Martin Luther King Jr
Mira Slovak
West Germany
California
Slovak
Santa Monica
Faroe Islands
Glasgow
Scotland
Bonn
St. Paulo
Monkee
Rhonda Cook
Davey Jones
The
Monkees
Rhonda
Jones
Michael Collins
Space Agency
Collins
Space Center
John Paul Habiger
Habigers
St. Benedict’s Abbey
Atchinson
Kan
Belmont Abbey
Belmont
Salina
John Habiger
Habiger
John Jr
Henry Louis
Jerome P. Cavanagh
Detroit
Cavaugh
Los Angeles
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Rudolf Hess
Nazi Germany
Berthold Rubin
Cologne University
Berlin
Spandau
Germany
Hess
Rap
Henry
Clark Ave
Lakewood
Iby Mailikon
Bullocks Lakewood Center
S.M.L
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