Violence and political upheaval across Indochina and Europe
Reports from Saigon and Paris detail renewed heavy fighting near Snoul Cambodia with 1000 Communist attackers threatening the rubber town, and US casualties rising with 38 Americans killed in Indochina last week. In Paris negotiators clash over withdrawals while Allende seizes Ford plant in Chile. In Vienna hijackers force a Romania airliner to land amid police action and in Moscow four Georgian Jews are jailed for slander with sentences up to three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Snoul
Phnom Penh
U.S
Indochina
Mariner satellite launch cleared after prior failure
Space agency administrator James Fletcher authorized a Saturday launch of the remaining Mariner television satellite to Mars after assuring engineers all precautions were taken. The first Mariner, 2200 pounds, was destroyed May 8 due to an autopilot circuit failure in the Centaur upper stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy
James Fletcher
Mars
Arab King Faisal Visits Washington for Welcoming Ceremony
President Nixon and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia greet on the South Lawn during a lavish White House welcome. Faisal urges U.S. influence to curb Israeli aggression while Nixon welcomes counsel for a just Middle East peace. Faisal to stay three days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
King Faisal
Saudi Arabia
White House
Faisal
Israel
Mideast
Washington
Government tightens control on pep pills and speed
Washington reports reclassification of amphetamines and methamphetamines to narcotics status under strict controls. Distribution will require federal forms and doctor prescriptions nonrefillable, with quotas set by the attorney general. Meanwhile in Mississippi, protests and FBI aid followed the shooting death of Jo Etha Collier as local tension eased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Ingersoll
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
John Mitchell
Drew
Miss
Ruleville
Nixon
FBI
J. D. Fleming
Delta
Jo Etha Collier
Kennedy Eisenhower ladies attend John F Kennedy Center gala
Rose Kennedy Mamie Eisenhower lead a star studded turnout at a preview gala for the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. About 3 000 to 3 500 guests enjoyed music dancing a midnight buffet strawberries champagne and fireworks over the Potomac.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Kennedy
Mamie Eisenhower
John I. Kennedy
National Cultural Center
Potomac River
Joseph P. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
William Westmoreland
Army
Washington
Marjorie Merriweather Post
Entomac River
John I’. Kennedy
AP Wiraphoto
Lithuanian seaman Treason Simas Kadirka sentenced in Moscow
Treason charged Simas Kadirka, a Lithuanian seaman who leapt from a Soviet ship to a Coast Guard cutter seeking refuge in the United States, has been sentenced in Moscow to 10 years in prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Tuard Cutter
America
Moscow
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thernationa
Reds
Combined News Service
Paris
North Vietnam
Ford
Santiago
Chile
Salvador Allende
Ford Assembly
Casablanca
Docember
Vienna
Romania
Oradea
Munich
West Germany
Luka Lotko
Miami
Wia
National Airlines
Miami International
Australia
Qantas Airlines
New York
EBL
Dixie
Kennedy
Jfk
Combined News Services
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Bobby Seale
Seale
U.S. Marshal
Okie Reject
Chamber of Commerce
Okemah
Okia
Woody Guthrie
Chamber
Guthrie
Allison Kelly
Elizabeth
The
New Statesman
Tricia Nixon
Tricia
Edward Cox
North Portico
Simas Kadirka
Reid
Meredith
Bonnie
Bullock’s
Lakewood
Clark Avenue
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!