Hoffa Trial Heads Into Fifth Week
Chicago UPI report on the $25 million pension fund fraud case against Teamster President James Hoffa and seven aides entering week five. Witness Frank J. Murtha testifies about loans totaling over 3.5 million to S George Burris with collateral including seven LA office buildings and a health club.
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Chicago
UPI
Teamster
James Hoffa
Frank J. Murtha
Murtha
Central States
Teamsters Pension Fund
U.S
Richard B. Austin
Austin
Pension Fund
S. George Burris
New York
Burris
Los Angeles
Anaheim
Calif
Fullerton
Sanity hearing bid sought for Jack Ruby in Dallas
Prosecutors and defense attorneys meet with Dist. Judge Joe E. Brown to discuss a sanity hearing for convicted killer Jack Ruby. District Attorney Henry Wade aims to show Ruby knows right from wrong while not opposing psychiatric treatment in jail or Parkland Hospital. The defense seeks a sanity hearing by next week as Judge Brown awaits psychiatrist reports.
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Dallas
UPI
Dist
Joe E. Brown
Jack Ruby
Henry Wade
Lee Harvey Oswald
Wade
Ruby
Parkland Hospital
Kennedy
Oswald
Brown
Goldwater suggests use of low yield atomic weapons in Vietnam
Senator Barry Goldwater on ABC discussed defoliation by low yield atomic weapons to expose Viet Cong supply trails in Vietnam. He said removing foliage could cripple routes from Red China via the Red River Valley, while noting such steps are difficult and may require targeting strategic supplies to win.
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Washington
UPI
Barry F. Goldwater
Viet Nam
Arizona Republican
United States
Laos
Campegia
Burma
South
China
Red China
Red River Valley
Goldwater
ABC
Red
Germany
Test Apollo Moonship in Launching Tomorrow
Cape Kennedy plans a 9 a m launch of the Saturn-1 carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft. The 565 ton rocket will reach an 80 foot satellite that completes an 88 minute earth orbit at 110 to 140 miles altitude as a key test of the drive to land men on the moon.
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Apollo
America
Space
Earth
Rights Groups Plan Long Hot Summer
New York NAACP officials announced a major expansion of civil rights activity for the coming summer. A donor contributed 500000 to the NAACP legal defense fund, enabling increased budgets and more lawyers to handle anticipated arrests and litigation. Courses, seminars, and training in Miami Mississippi and northern cities are slated to support the effort with 2000 students hoped for the freedom summer program in Mississippi.
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New York
UPI
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Jack Greenberg
Greenberg
The
Defense Fund
Constance Baker Motley
South
Legal Defense Fund
Memphis
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
Western College For Women
Oxford
Ohio
Mississippi
Columbia University
New York City
Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee
Civil Rights Law Institute
Atlanta
Alabama
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Missouri
Mrs. Motley
French aircraft magnate’s wife rescued from kidnap gang
Paris police freed Mme. Marcel Dassault, 64, wife of aircraft manufacturer, from a kidnap gang after they fled to an abandoned house. Three members were arrested. a fourth escaped. Neighbors’ alarm led to the stakeout and rescue. The OAS claimed responsibility but was not involved in this abduction.
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Paris
UPI
Mme
Marcel Dassault
Secret Army Organization
OAS
France
Mme. Dassault
Orleans
Dassault
Maurice Bouver
Rober Frey
Bouvier
Forest
Beauvais
Six Die and One Hundred Hurt In Hall Fire Panic
A fire sparked by a dancer's torch at All Hallows parish hall during a Polynesian festival killed six and injured over a hundred as patrons panicked near the front exit. Survivors recalled being knocked down and trampled while attempting to escape as gas-fueled flames raced across the stage.
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San Francisco
UPI
All Hallows
William Murray
Michael Aragon
New Orleans Mourns Morrison After Death and Crash
The body of Delesseps S. Morrison, former New Orleans mayor and U.S. ambassador, arrived as the city mourns a sudden violent death in Mexico. Morrison, 51, his 7 year old son Randy, and five others died in a plane crash near Ciudad Victoria, with reports of earlier hope that all aboard were safe. Toni Morrison, 20, learned of the crash by phone and said no survivors.
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New Orleans
UPI
U.S
Delesseps S. Morrison
Mexico
Morrison
Randy
Alvin Callendar
Ciudad Victoria
Toni
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Barry
CORE
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California
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Blair
Bonanza
Gallenkamp
GattenKamp
Fremont
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