Violence Breaks Out in Waterloo Negro North End District
In Waterloo Iowa a two night spasm of violence involved about 100 youths and hundreds of residents in the Negro North End. Police backed by highway patrol moved in to break up riotous crowds after rock throwing looting and arson. Five people were injured three stores were damaged and three arrests were made amid tensions linked to housing and employment grievances. Similar unrest is reported in Tampa Florida as the NAACP prepares for its Boston convention and Roy Wilkins calls for white community action on jobs housing and economic security.
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Negro North End
East Fourth Street
Robert Wright
Young
Honda O
Wright
Warren’ Nash
Tampa
Fla
Nick Nuccio
Boston
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Roy Wilkins
A* néWs
McNamara Reports Pacification Efforts Slow but Steady in Vietnam
Secretary McNamara tours the Mekong Delta and says pacification proceeds very slowly yet shows organization improvements. He notes large unit operations have reduced Viet Cong pressure and stresses the need for realistic progress and potential troop decisions remain unsettled.
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Soi Rap River
Vietnam
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Delta
McNamara
Antiguerrilla
Mockingbird Too Tough Menace Faces Miami Beach Residents
Miami Beach residents near Euclid Avenue and 16th Street report a two week siege by a skydiving, head pecking mockingbird. The bird targets people from building rooftops and even roosts in a 15 foot palm tree, prompting fears of attacks on passersby.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Euclid Avenue
16Th Street
Tear Gas Used in Kansas City Park Unrest
A crowd of 75 to 100 Negroes at Swope Park in Kansas City clashed with police after an arrest. Officers used tear gas to scatter the disturbance, with over a dozen arrests and damage to a paddy wagon and several patrol cars. Donald Oliver, arrested for illegal liquor sale, sparked the unrest.
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Swope Park
Kansas City
Assis
Tance
Donald
Starlight Theater
No Action Slated On Marine Group
Houston reports no disciplinary action for Marine reservists after a five minute clash with peace pickets in Hermann Park during an American Legion parade. Lt Col Karl E Moore said he has had no complaints. About 150 Marines, part of a weekend drill, faced 30 protesters from groups including the Houston Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
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Houston, Tex
Houston Park
Karl E. Moore
American Legion
Hermann Park
Houston Committee
Vietnam
Students For A Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
John’ Birch Society
Marine May
Bill Sherburne
Birchers
Worm Search Fatal Accident in Maryland Suburb
In Middle River Maryland a 3 year old boy died after grabbing a 24 inch electric worm probing tool while his father Douglas Alt held the wooden handle during a fishing worm search. Police said the incident occurred on the family’s wet lawn at their suburban Baltimore home.
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Middle River, Md
Douglas Alt
Douglas
Baltimore
Kids In Heaven For Air Trip Over City Skies
158 Brooklyn children toured by jet from John F Kennedy Airport as part of the Mayor's Citizens Summer Committee program. The Overseas National Airways pledge would take 1 000 city children on a neighborhood flight before school resumes in September.
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New York
Brooklyn
John F. Kennedy
Mayor
Overseas National Airways
Septemer
Swing-Wing Jet Shown At Soviet Air Show
Moscow reports a new swing wing jet similar to the U S F111 with a claimed speed of 1800 mph. The wings fold back for supersonic flight enabling stability at low speeds. A British French project failed when France pulled out. The U S F111 is in mass production and slated for Vietnam combat missions within a year.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
U.S
Vietnam
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