Johnson Orders Aerial Retaliation For Viet Nam Attacks
President Johnson declares peace requires a firm response to aggression and orders U.S. air strikes on North Vietnamese bases. He warns Red China to stay out and reiterates no peace by aggression while detailing strikes on torpedo boats, bases, and an oil depot with two U.S. aircraft lost. The address follows a Pentagon briefing and a Syracuse University ceremony.
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N. Viet PT
Syracuse
N.Y
Johnson
Red China
United States of America
Syracuse University
Samuel I. Newhouse
Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Dean Rusk
McGeorge Bundy
White House
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South Viet Nam
Kingdom of Laos
United States
High Seas
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Pentagon
Gulf of Tonkin
Ticonderoga
Constellation
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Senate
Eratic
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Asia
New Evening Post
Communist
Hong Kong
China
McNamara Restantial
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam
North
Maddox
Turner Joy
Defense
UPI
La Crosse Council Sets Nov Bond Vote For Library
The La Crosse Common Council unanimously schedules a November 3 referendum on an 890000 library bond. City officials cite state law after 6495 petitions while aldermen seek city financial status details before campaigning. If approved, bonds would be sold promptly and construction could begin in 1965 or 1966.
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la Crosse
John K. Flanagan
Ers
Flanagan
Allan Schilling
Library Board
Merrill Davis
7Th Ward
Milo G. Knutson
74th Annual Fair Opens Under Sweltering Sun
The 74th La Crosse Inter-State Fair opened with judging of junior fair dairy and beef cattle and open class sheep as heat challenged exhibitors. Vandalism disrupted the sheep barn with hay, straw, ground feed spilled and an empty liquor bottle found near the scene. A maternity day in the cattle barn added two newborn calves and a trophy for knitted work was awarded to Mrs. Frank Harlan of Richland Center.
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Richard Martin Cashton
Don Matte
Frank Harlan
Richland Center
Rights workers' bodies found in earthen dam near Philadelphia
Two of the three badly decomposed bodies recovered near Philadelphia Mississippi were identified as missing civil rights workers Andy Goodman and Mickey Schwerner. A third body is believed to be James Chaney. FBI confirmed the two identifications, while the third was pending scientific evidence. The trio vanished six weeks earlier after leaving Philadelphia following a speeding arrest.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Andy Goodman
Mickey Schwerner
James Chaney
Goodman
Schwerner
Mississippi
Here
FBI
Birmingham News
Roy K. Moore
Jackson
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Greenwood, Miss
The
Meridian Star
Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney
U S rushes fighters to Saigon as Viet Nam crisis grows
Six supersonic F102 jets reach Saigon amid heightened alert across South Vietnam and Da Nang base tensions. Vietnamese forces place five divisions on alert while U S forces tighten basing and curfews. SEATO calls urgent meeting as North Viet Nam denies PT boat attacks and pledges to defend the region.
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Viet Nam
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da Nang
Red China
Gulf of Tonkin
I Corps
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Nguyen Khanh
U.S
Maxwell Taylor
South Viet Nam
South Korea
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C. Turner Joy
Tonkin Gulf
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Chad
Phuc Los Torpedo Boats
Quang Kre
Roland Solberg
Solberg
Barry Hayes
Madison
Bernard Hass
Tribune
By Dudley Lehew
Cecil Price
James
Chaney
Meridipeau
Wuuumnah Ala Sochwerner
Neshoba County
Philippines
By Macolm W. Browne
America
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Thailand
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
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SEATO
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Australia
France
New Zealand
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U.S. Pacific
Maxwell D. Taylor
William C. Westmoreland
Tran Thien Khiem
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George Baul
Robert McNamara
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