Pueblo Crew Reunites With Families In San Diego
anxious families travel from Vermont Hawaii to welcome 82 USS Pueblo crewmen after 11 months in North Korean captivity. Navy covers transport and lodging as 170 relatives gather at Balboa Naval Hospital and El Cortez Hotel for a Christmas Eve reunion with plans to greet the plane at Miramar then return to base for room checks and family introductions.
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Balboa Hospital
Space history and Pueblo crew reunion dominate headlines
Apollo 8 orbits the Moon marking space milestone while Pueblo crewmen return from captivity in Seoul. UPI reports Rear Admiral Rosenberg hailing the crew as heroes as they head to San Diego after months in enemy hands.
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Weather Brief for Today and Yesterday
Sunny with variable cloudiness and gentle winds. Today's high 48 and low 25. Yesterday's high 47 and low 24. Noontime humidity 28 percent. Sunrise at 6 49. Sunset at 4 32.
Pueblo flag lowered after 11 months amid crew release
Jim Dumont raised an American flag in protest of the Pueblo crew’s detention and vowed it would stay up until release. The flag was lowered in a ceremony at Nellis Air Force Base with the Color Guard, recruiters, Navy personnel, veterans groups, and Mayor Oran Grayson in attendance.
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Rose Bucher
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Lloyd Bucher
Pacific Beach
Jim Dumont
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Smoke Ranch Road
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Marine and Navy
Navy
Veterans Organizations
Oran Grayson
Oran Gragson
Apollo 8 astronauts blaze path around the moon
Frank Borman James Lovell and Bill Anders approached within 71.6 miles of the lunar surface and entered an elliptical orbit from 71.6 to 178.5 miles above the moon. The trio, 213055 miles from Earth, traveled 3443 mph as they completed the first view of the moon's far side.
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Charles Lindbergh
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James Lovell
Bill Anders
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Las Vegas
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Firemen's Goodfellow Sale Nets 2257 For Fire Victims
Las Vegas Sun sale by Firemen's Goodfellows raised 2257 for fire victims. Curtis Freeman, secretary treasurer, said 88 Las Vegas area firefighters sold copies. Funds support clothing for those who lose belongings in home fires. this year total is about 225 more than 1967.
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Las Vegas Sun
Curtis Freeman
Red Shellings Break Christmas Cease Fire
Communist forces violated a Christmas truce minutes after it began by firing on two South Vietnamese outposts. A 40 round mortar attack hit a camp 25 miles west of Saigon, injuring none, followed by a 30 round strike 80 miles northeast of Saigon.
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Saigon
UPS
Nevada Faces Hong Kong Flu Spread In 1968 era
The National Communicable Disease Center reports widespread influenza including the Hong Kong variety across most states. In Clark County the absentee rate hits 5 to 10 percent with Rancho High School showing 500 of 2300 absent and county bus drivers at 30 percent.
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Hong Kong
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Hawaii
Otto Ravenholdt
Clark County
Rancho High School
Ravenholdt
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