Peaceful Selma Rights March Honors Slain White Minister
In Selma Alabama Dr Martin Luther King Jr led over 3500 demonstrators to lay a wreath at the courthouse for the slain white minister James Reed as crowds prayed and sang. The march followed a memorial service for Reeb and reflected ongoing civil rights tensions in the South.
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Reeb
Boston
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Las Vegas Honors My Fair Ladies At Club Reception
The Las Vegas Press Club will honor a group called My Fair Ladies at a Wednesday reception at the club HQ in the Fremont Hotel. The event promotes the Nevada premiere of My Fair Lady at the Cinem a Rama Theater on March 23 and notes St Patrick’s Day while paying tribute to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Official honorees include a large list of Las Vegas socialites and club members led by Mrs Grant Sawyer and Mrs H M Greenspun.
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Humphrey Calls Selma Violence an American Tragedy
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey condemned the Selma racial violence as a shameful American tragedy. He pledged federal action to protect voting rights while addressing the National Farmers Union. CORE members pressed for intervention but were not spoken to.
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Selma
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Sympathy marches span nation for racial tolerance
A large mixed crowd sang and marched across cities including Philadelphia and Harrisburg in protests over racial violence and the Selma slayings. In Washington, youths staged a sit in at the Capitol while 11 demonstrators urged Alabama delegation cuts near the House chamber, removed by police after a tense exchange with Speaker McCormack.
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Pennsylvania
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Selma
Ala
John W. McCormack
House
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McCormack
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Johnson Health Is Excellent Says Doctor Panel
UPI reports four doctors examination of President Johnson found his general health excellent with all systems normal. They advised more relaxation and regular days off plus an exercise plan. Reedy declined to detail the doctors suggestions after the briefing.
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UPI
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Actress Kim Novak Weds Richard Johnson in Colorado Snow
In Aspen area near the Colorado ski town Novak and British actor Richard Johnson secretly married in a snow covered meadow near Beaver Dam, four hours after they left their Hollywood film project The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. The couple planned a two week skiing honeymoon before returning to Carmel California. Novak wore a white brocade suit and carried pink roses while Johnson wore a navy blue suit.
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Two Selma suspects tied to Reed attack
In a federal hearing at Montgomery, Dallas County deputy Asbury Middlebrooks testified that Elmer Cook and another man were involved in a March 6 smokescreen incident at the courthouse in Selma but were released after questioning. He also described March 7 clashes as troopers and posse members faced questions over use of force.
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Selma
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Supreme Court nixes fast review of 1870 law in civil rights killings
The Supreme Court refused a government request for immediate hearings on the 1870 law used in the Philadelphia Mississippi killings case. Three Civil Rights era murders prompted prosecutions, while two Southern judges have dismissed charges under the provision. Victims Schwerner Goodman and Chaney disappeared in 1964 during a civil rights drive near Philadelphia Mississippi.
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Two-Man Gemini Flight Delayed to March 23
The U S space agency pushed the first two man Gemini mission to March 23 to allow time for Ranger moon probe operations and the ideal launch window ends by March 25. John W. Young and Virgil I. Grissom remain the crew for a three orbit earth flight and await the revised schedule.
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Gus) Grissom
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Viet Peace Movement Leaders Face Deportation to North Viet Nam
Three Saigon Peace Movement leaders who backed an immediate ceasefire awaited forced parachute deportation to North Viet Nam. They had gathered 358 signatures on a petition calling for an end to fighting with the North Vietnamese Reds.
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South Viet Nam
UPI
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Collins Claims Malcolm X Successor Role
Ella Collins, half sister to Malcolm X, said he appointed her successor before his assassination. She pledges Afro American Unity would be less militant under her leadership. Storm system blankets country with rain and snow across the north. California hit hard with heavy showers while Oregon and Washington see 15 days without measurable precipitation. Javits pushes to expand school aid coverage by 60 percent in second year of Johnson program. Elizabeth Taylor's father Francis Taylor undergoes emergency surgery as his condition worsens. Patricia Neal shows modest neurological improvement after two massive strokes and moves to a private room.
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