World War Era Dispatches From Congo and Vietnam
Rebel forces threaten Stanleyville in Congo with gunfire near the American consulate as UN evacuations and troop airlifts continue. In Northern Rhodesia 259 killed in Lumpa fanatic rampage with troops deployed to quell violence. In Germany no US service members killed in Stadt fights. racial tension noted in barroom altercations. Viet Cong kill a US soldier in South Vietnam as clashes resume near Saigon. In France nine miners freed after eight days in a chalk mine. five remain underground awaiting rescue.
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Lusaka
Northern Rhodesia
Alice the Prophetess
Sovernment
Saigon
U.S
South Viet Nam
Champagnole
France
Fire Bomb Hurled at Patrol Car in Jersey City Riots
A group of rioters hurled two Molotov cocktails at a police car in Jersey City as daytime violence erupted after two nights of racial unrest. Police and National Guard were mobilized. 48 people, including 17 officers, were injured and looting continued at multiple stores. FBI agents opened investigations into the riots.
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Joel Shurkin
United Press International
Jersey City
N.J
UPI
Richard J. Hughes
National Guard
Negro
Joseph Eggers
FBI
Johnson
Harlem
Riverside
Hudson
Manhattan
Eggers
Thomas Clougher
Grand Street
Weather Outlook Cloudy Skies With Heat Peak 98
Occasional cloudiness and a possible tree chance this evening and again late Wednesday night. No change in temperatures with a high of 98 and a low of 68.
Johnson orders limited air action against North Viet Nam
President Johnson announced U S air action against gunboats and supporting facilities in North Viet Nam to curb attacks on U S naval vessels. He said the response will be limited and not seek a wider war, and he urged a congressional resolution showing national unity in Southeast Asia policy.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
North
Viet Nam
U.S
Dio
United States of America
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Second Attack Brings Crisis Atmosphere in Washington
North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked two destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin for a second time in three days. President Johnson called the National Security Council into session and briefed lawmakers as the State Department warned Hanoi of consequences for further attacks. The action involved six Russian-built boats near North Vietnam, with no U S hits on the Maddox or Joy amid poor weather and carrier support from the Ticonderoga and Constellation.
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Charles W. Cord Dry
United Press International Washington
UPI
North
Viet Nam
Washington
Johnson
National Security Council
White House
Congress
State Department
Hanoi
Pentagon
C. Turner Joy
Maddox
Gulf of Tonkin
North Vietnamese
Defense Department
U.S
Security Council
House
Senate
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert §. McNamara
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
George E. Reedy
North Viet Nam
Hainan
U. S
Ticonderoga
Constellation
Hong Kong
Salinger Named U S Senate Pick Amid Protests in California
Governor Edmund G Brown names Pierre Salinger to fill the remaining five months of Clair Engle's term prompting GOP challenger George Murphy to vow a court fight. Salinger, ex White House press secretary and Kennedy aide, faces Murphy in November for a six year seat. Brown says appointment valid and representative of California.
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Robert Fairbanks
United Press International
Sacramento
Calif
UPN
White House
Pierre Salinger
U.S. Senate
Edmund G. Brown
Salinger
Clair Engle
Engle
George Murphy
Charles
Murphy
Brown
State Supreme Court
U. S
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
California
Legion Head Comments On Roswell Tiff
New Mexico Legion Commander Joe Staley defends Roswell Post 28 Bulletin against John Birch leanings saying strong members may speak harshly and spark publicity. State official GY Fails calls the bulletin partisan and possible grounds to suspend the charter after an article likening Kennedy to Hitler. Staley urges Roswell Post to address its own issues.
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Santa FE
UPI
Joe Stalkey
New Mexico Department of the American Legion
Roswell Post 28
John Birch Society
Legion
Staley
Fails
State Corporation
Roswell Post 28 Bulletin
John F. Kennedy
Adolph Hitler
Kennedy
American Legion Post
Roswell Bulletin Partisan
George S. Richardson
Jack Pritchard
Bulletin
Roswell Post
Two Lovington Men Hospitalized After Lounge Attack
Two Lovington men, Roy Lee Jones a 35 year old oil field worker and Forest Wayne Smith age 24, were hospitalized after a fight at Bel Aire Lounge in Hobbs. Police say two unidentified men armed with a shotgun crowbar and pistol assaulted them, breaking Smith’s head and Jones’s arm. A 1964 Cadillac fled the scene as authorities pursued with road blocks and air support. Conditions were not released.
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Lovington
Bel Aire
Hobbs
Roy Lee Jones
Forest Wayne Smith
Smith
Jones
Lea General Hospital
Bodies Found Near Dam Linked To Civil Rights Workers
FBI agents near Philadelphia Mississippi recovered three bodies in a dam area and authorities believe they may be Andrew Goodman James Chaney and Michael Schwerner the civil rights workers missing since June 21. Identification and cause of death will be determined at Jackson Mississippi hospitals. The men were part of the Mississippi project to register Negro voters.
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Philadelphia
Miss
UPI
FBI
Here
Mississippi
Jackson
Roy K. Moore
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Andrew Goodman
James E. Chaney
Michael Schwerer
Rt. 21
Mississippi State Highway Patrol
U.S. Navy
Meridian
Chaney
Schwerner
Goodman
Humphrey Boomed For Deep Ballot
Western and Midwestern Democratic leaders voiced strong support for Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey as the party's vice presidential candidate. Southern leaders were cooler. A UPI survey showed Kennedy sympathy despite Johnson ruling out Kennedy and cabinet members.
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William Theis
United Press International Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
United Press International
Robert F. Kennedy
Johnson
Kennedy
Massachusetts
John E. Powers
Atlantic City
Powers
Humphrey
Bobby Kennedy
Mississippi
Bidwell Adam
James C. Eastland
D. Miss
South
North Carolina
Lunsford Crew
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
United Nations
Adlai Stevenson
South Carolina
Yancey McLeod
Alabama
Roy Mayhall
West
Midwest
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Rebels Push Into Stanleyville Amid Congo Unrest
Rebels backed by communists moved into Stanleyville, Congo, clashing with Congo army near the American consulate. Refugees fled as army units advanced, curfew imposed, and UN rushed to evacuate personnel amid reports of a flagpole being struck and widespread panic in the city of about 300 000.
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United Press International
Leopoldville
Congo
Stanleyville
Congo Army
United Nations
Elisabethville
The
UPD
Wanie Rukula
Capitol
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Hanau
Germany
U.s. Army
Frankfurt
Adlai E. Stevenson
United Nations Security Council
Gulf of Tonking
United States
United States Navy
Bill Hawkins
Jake McClure
Legion Head
John Son
Arkansas
Leon Catlett
Michael Hoyt
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