RFK Campaign in California Amid Inflation Talk and Protests
Senate hopeful Robert Kennedy spoke in Pomona on inflation blaming Vietnam spending for poverty and unemployment. Crowds in Los Angeles blocked his motorcade delaying a Temple Isaiah speech. Earlier he toured San Gabriel Mission and City of Hope Hospital where a portable artificial kidney was shown to him by Jan Eglajs. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy vie in the June 4 California Democratic primary with 172 convention votes at stake. Hoff praised Kennedy as a needed leadership change in Long Beach. In San Diego Kennedy taunted Nixon over his “He’s the one” slogan during a Monday speech.
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Poor Delay Delays National Campaign March Plans
The Poor People’s Campaign faced postponement as officials of the S C L C and leaders like Ralph Abernathy moved to Resurrection City with more than 2 000 participants. Abernathy pledged action the next day and noted plans to testify at congressional hearings while Bevel arranged a Kennedy grave visit. Some sources cited organizational strain, though S C L C staff insisted the movement would move with the times and spirit.
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Cop Revives Boy Choking on Popcorn
Los Angeles officer Eduardo Hernandez revived 22 month old Curtis V. Hardin after he choked on popcorn on a sidewalk near 88th Street and Broadway. The boy’s mother, Bonnie Armstrong, watched as Hernandez cleared the airway and began mouth to mouth resuscitation while Officer David Stone called for an ambulance.
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Perc y attacks LBJ fiscal policy in UPI report
Sen. Charles H. Percy accused the Johnson Humphrey administration of driving the country into its worst financial crisis in four decades. He said the administration pushes the gas but does not know when to brake during a Monday news conference in St. Louis.
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Principal Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Charge
Riverside Superior Court heard C. Michael McDonald a former Beaumont High School principal plead guilty to one count of embezzling $500 from the Adult Education Fund. Judge E Scott Bales set June 14 for sentencing after his November arrest and resignation from the post he held for two years.
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Red haired bandit robs Torrance Western Union office
A gun wielding woman in her late 20s, five four, with long red hair and visible pregnancy enters the Torrance Western Union at 1612 Cabrillo Ave around 2 15 p m and demands cash. The clerk reports no money taken and the suspect flees in a stolen 1966 car. Police tie her to five other South Bay and Santa Monica Western Union robberies.
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