Mississippi Campus Rioting as Marshals Clash With Students
Rioting on the Ole Miss campus left several hurt as U S marshals fired tear gas and sent in hundreds more troops. Demonstrators attacked vehicles and burned barricades while Gov Barnett and Meredith faced a federal court order amid a violent confrontation over desegregation.
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Webb Brunt
Ackerman
U. S
Graham Same
Memphis
Meredith
U.S
Kennedy
Walker
Edwin A. Walker
Cuba
General Walker
Col. T. B. Birdsong
Birdsong
Barnett
Mississippi Highway Patrol
State
Ross Barnett
Jackson
United States
Mississippi
Kennedy Demands Mississippi Students Obey Law Over Meredith
President Kennedy urges Ole Miss students to respect court orders as federal forces move toward Oxford to enforce integration. Braced by 4,600 plus troops including Army infantry and marshals, the administration pledges to uphold legal orders while Governor Barnett contends with rising tensions and possible university closure.
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Gordon Yoder
Dallas
WNEW
New York
Husky
Meredith
Oxford
Memphis
Barnett
5Th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
U. S
U. S. Naval Air Station
Millington
Tenn
Naval Air Station
Jackson
Ross Barnett
John Wright
Citizens’ Council
Wright
Mississi
Graham Lake
Holly Springs National Forest
Here
70Th Engineer
Ft. Campbell
Kennedy
Mississippi National Guard
Defense Department
Mississippi
Fort Dis
U. S. Army
Korea
U.S
Miss
White House
Andrew T. Hatcher
Hatcher
U.S. Army
James O. Eastland
Dmiss
John Stennis
D-Miss
Atty
Lee
Robert S. McNamara
Stennis
Eastland
Citizens Council
Dixie
5Th
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Trail Drives Remembered by Texas Cowboy George Lightfoot
George Lightfoot of O Donnell recalls 1898 arrival on the South Plains and a 1902 drive with 6 000 steers to Montana. He details three wagons at the first roundup, trail routes through Indian country and near Lubbock, and memories of fallen fellow cowboys. Now 85, he farms near O Donnell with son Bill and preserves the old days of stampedes and chuckwagons.
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George Lightfoot
Rt. 2
O'Donnell
Lightfoot
South Plains
Burnet County
Doughty
Montana
Jim Blackwell
Spence Jowell
Chunk Cowden
Gene Cowden
Dublin Boys
Williams Boys
Merchants
Ramsey
Hats
White
LFD
Tom Ross
Brand
Old High Country
Burnet
Llano
Colorado
Austin
Traver Place
Williamson
Colorado City
Thomas Lake
Burk and
Tellar Ranch
John Slaughter
Bill
Courthouse Square
Lubbock
Lubbock National Bank
British Admiralty bans luminous watches on nuclear subs
The British Admiralty ordered sailors on nuclear submarines to avoid watches with luminous dials. The warning cites potential emission of radioactive gas from the dials that could affect submarine instruments.
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I.ondon
Admiralty
Radar network reports 219 objects in Earth orbit
George Lightfoot Considine notes North American Air Defense Command now tracks objects 50 miles up with radar and scanners. There are 219 objects circling the Earth, including 43 satellites of which 38 are American, four Russian, one British, with a Canadian sputnik soon to join. The rest are discarded rocket stages and debris.
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North American Air Defense Command
Sputnik
Kennedy White House on Cuba and Berlin Talks
Rusk denies any Russian deal on Berlin while signaling a U S effort to build solidarity on Cuba. He says moderates across the hemisphere are awakening to Castroism and growing more active as Tuesday meetings with foreign ministers loom.
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Rusk
Berlin
Cuba
Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
New York
Solons Debate Kennedy Address and Mississippi Crisis
Senators and representatives from several states reacted to Kennedy's desegregation plan as federal troops prepared to enforce court orders at Ole Miss. Gov. Barnett faced mixed support while northern leaders urged lawful action and restraint amid a tense stand-off over federal authority.
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Randolph
Eastland
William M. Colmer
D- Miss
Mississippi
Congress
Frank E. Smith
D-Miss
Kennedy
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
James O. Eastland
Dmiss
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Meredith
Mississippi National Guard
Memphis
Tenn
South
Ross Barnett
Supreme Court
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Sen
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
United States
Carl Albert
D-Okla
House
Tennessee
Buford Ellington
Southern Governors Conference
Ellington
Hollywood
Fla
Barnett
University of Mississippi
Jimmie H. Davis
Louisiana
Price Daniel
Texas
Elbert Carvell
Delaware
John Dalton
Missouri
Georgia
Ernest Vandiver
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Clark Barnett
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Kenneth M. Long
Farr's
Robert Earl Dennis Jr
26Th St
West Texas Hospital
Dennis Bros. Printing
Binty Frerne Johnson
Weighae
Noen
West Texas
Thomas Bros. Office Supply
Robert Gerald Corley
Boston
Singer Sewing Center
Fort Bragg
23Rd Infantry
Charles Billingslea
Chicago
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108Th Armored
Clayton
William Spell
Guard
Mississippi Guard
Claude Clayton
J. W. Ford
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Marshals Ring
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University of Mississippi At Oxford
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Square and Compass
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Solons
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David Ormsby Gore
Britain
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Lord Home
Andrei Gromyko
New York City
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