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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1969
Page
4
Governor Ronald Reagan, speaking at Anaheim, vows a white paper on campus riots and plans a statewide TV reveal of the facts. He calls Berkeley’s People’s Park a preplanned riot, cites threats to $5 million in university property, and urges administrators and faculty to punish disorder while blaming some professors for inciting violence.
State universities respond as Berkeley clashes with police draw support and protests. UCLA cancels classes for a student sit in. Santa Barbara Irvine and Riverside hold marches and convocations. San Diego refuses normal operations while demanding National Guardsmen leave. UC Davis and Berkeley confrontations rally faculty and students to pressure Reagan.
Ronald Clifford Harris, 27, was acquitted of aiding and abetting the murder of Sidney T. Raycraft, 48, during a 1967 robbery. The defendant’s brother Lanners Lutt Harris, 29, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life with no parole.
Moon Orbit of Tranquility reports crew calling lunar landmarks Apollo Ridge and Maskelyne B as they neared touchdown. The two spacecraft locked together in deep space then prepared to refine lunar navigation before Apollo 10 exits lunar orbit for splashdown in the Pacific near Pago Pago Monday.
Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor orders a seven day hold on Sgt Michael Sanders from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier unit over his antiwar remarks. The action follows senators requests for an investigation and concerns the timing of his deployment to Vietnam. Sanders had eight months left in service and had escorted Eisenhower at his funeral. The Army says the orders came from the Pentagon and not from Sanders' Ft Myer unit.
A buxom dancer Carol Cybulski 32 testified before Santa Ana Municipal Court that her go go routine was exotic not erotic and an artistic interpretation. She faced 10 counts of disorderly conduct and indecent exposure as jurors viewed an eye level account before Judge Paul G. Mast and a six by six jury. The trial recessed until Monday.
An F-111A fighter bomber crashed over Northern Arizona during a training run from Nellis Air Force Base. Both pilots ejected safely and were recovered by an Arizona Highway Patrol unit for routine medical checks at Nellis. Capt. Kent M. May and Maj. John C. Morrow, named in the incident, were later returned for follow up.
James Richard Key, 21, of Bell Gardens, was arrested on charges of assault with intent to kill and kidnapping a 2 year old boy. The suspect appeared in South Gate court while detectives continued the probe into Jeffrey Lenards’s May 9 attack and hospitalization.
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