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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1969
Page
2
In Bombay crowds of about 1.5 million lined the astronauts' parade route and 500000 gathered in a city field as Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins waved from a 27 foot Eagle replica. Armstrong presented a souvenir autographed Moon footprint photo.
Snow covered the Rockies to the upper Midwest with up to three inches in northern Minnesota and the Lake Superior area. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula saw two inches in six hours, Montana flurried, Livingston eight inches, Boseman four, Helena three. Lincoln, Nebraska, and other areas faced bitter weather as cold air moved south. In Louisiana, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson attended a 125th church anniversary in Minden. Separate reports: a narcotics agent in Dallas surrendered after the shooting death of his girlfriend. In Indianapolis, eight passengers died in a drag racing crash. two in the other car were injured. In Washington, U.S. scholars in the Soviet Union faced harassment, yet a Senate panel urged continuing the exchange program.
The daughter of former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, Joan Wilkinson, was located alive in Europe after two months missing. She is hospitalized in serious but not critical condition as her husband Carter Wilkinson travels to her side. Styles of the report indicate Bergen Norway and Hamburg Germany as key locations. The recovery follows a prior family statement expressing relief.
In a Sunday by election Paris scene saw Michel Rocard, 39, of the Unified Socialist Party, defeat Charles de Gaulle ally Couve de Murville. Rocard benefited from broad Communist backing despite leadership opposition to the Unified Socialists.
University of Miami professor uses sound fingerprint tests on Beatles records to argue three distinct voices attributed to Paul McCartney. BBC interview aired from a Scotland farm as speculation swirls about the dead musician. Dr Henry Truby cites six voices on the test samples with three clearly identified as Lennon Harrison and Starr.
A garbled classified line shows a Monel item and a delivery price of 3.00 for daily and Sunday service 40 48.00, plus a single copy price of 6c. The fragment mentions Independent classifieds with a phone number and delivery options.
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