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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1970
Page
2
Forty one prisoners, the final holdouts from rioting inmates in five city jails, were removed by fire ladder from the Long Island City House of Detention in Queens to Rikers Island. Observers including Dr. Howard Levy accompanied them to ensure safe transfer.
Hollywood coroner orders a psychological autopsy to determine if Janis Joplin's drug overdose was accidental or self-inflicted. A needle and powder suspected heroin were found in her apartment, and experts will study her life to assess crisis tendencies and drug involvement.
A coroner's inquest ruled Ruben Salazar's Aug. 29 death not accidental, prompting possible involuntary manslaughter charges. DA Evelle Younger will decide if criminal action is warranted before the Nov. 3 election, with the verdict seen as a moral blow to sheriff deputies amid riot damage and questions over warnings given.
Byron United Press International reports a ransom demand of 50 dollars for one life led to three killings. Lloyd Young 40, Robert Tracy 65, and Cecilia Tracy 58 were found shot in the back of the head. Suspects Billy Duan Vaught 27 and James Dale Dean 24 were charged.
In Pontiac Michigan four white students were shot by black youths near Central High School after clashes between black and white students following a football game. Police say Tracy Young and others were abducted and killed, with other suspects arrested after a car chase.
A nationwide police alert is issued for Henry Thomas Ashley 27 after five fatal shootings in an apparent robbery. Ashley faces five first degree murder warrants issued by Justice of the Peace William J Young and is described as armed and dangerous. A red 1960 Falcon linked to the crimes was found abandoned near an open air grocery store near Dade City.
UPI reports Jack arranged 25 taxis to visit Carol Goodman at her home with signs reading Happy birthday Carol Goodman on your 40th birthday. Her reaction: Migand, it’s not my birthday, I have two more days to enjoy being 39.
In Los Angeles Charles Manson lunged toward judge Charles H Older with a yellow pencil in hand, prompting a deputy to subdue him. The incident, part of a trial now expected to run at least two more months, raises talks of shackling or isolating Manson and three fellow female defendants to keep proceedings moving.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attacked toward Tang Kauk as they tried to block the Cambodian task force advancing from Laos via Kompong Thom and Kompong Chhnang. Saigon communiques report civilian deaths, Cambodian and American casualties, and ongoing fighting near Kompong Thom and Kompong Chhnang with air support used.
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