Slain Civil Rights Workers Found. Investigations Intensify
Federal and state authorities press investigations after three civil rights workers were found murdered in an earthen watershed near Philadelphia Mississippi. Names identified include Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, both New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a Meridian Black man. Autopsies confirmed they were shot. The FBI pursued leads as a $30,000 reward drew information and reports of seven linked individuals.
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Jackson, Miss
FBI
Philadelphia
Miss
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
James Chaney
Meridian
Goodman
Schwerner
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Roy K. Moore
Jackson
Washington
Moore
Birmingham
Ala
Entertainer Gregory Says He Gave FBI Letter on Bodies
Dick Gregory said he handed the FBI a letter pinpointing the location of the slayed civil rights workers in Mississippi. He claimed a tape with killers’ names exists and that the FBI has a copy. The note said the three men died June 22 and were buried near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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Honolulu
Dick Gregory
FBI
Wlississ
IPP
Gregory
Michael Schwerner
Andrey, Goodman
James Chaney
Philadelphia
Miss
U N Council Plans Hearing From North and South Viet Nam
The United Nations Security Council explores inviting both North and South Viet Nam to participate in debate over North Viet Nam attacks on U S warships. Council President Sivert A Nielsen of Norway suspended proceedings to gauge delegate support and may reconvene Friday. A heated exchange is anticipated on roles of the United States, North Viet Nam, and Red China in South Viet Nam.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Security Council
North
South Viet Nam
U.S
Council
Sivert A.nielsen
Norway
Nielsen
United States
North Viet Nam
Red China
South Viet Nams
Hanoi
Border Area Braces for Major North Vietnamese Attack
In Hue and Da Nang the 1st Corps Area tightens defenses after a nighttime troop and air defense buildup. U S forces warn of a likely large scale assault from North Vietnam with possible targets including Quang Tri as tension rises across the central region.
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Hue
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
1St Corps
da Nang
Nguyen Chanh Thi
U.S
Quang Tri
Ben Hai River
South
Viet Nam
Saigon
Three Civil Rights Workers Arrested in Philadelphia Area
The text notes Goodman Schwerner and Chaney were arrested on a speeding charge on June 21 in Philadelphia, spent six hours in jail, and after posting bond they allegedly headed toward Meridian in a station wagon. A charred car wreck was found two days later north of Philadelphia near the initial crash site six miles southwest of the city.
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Philadelphia
Mississippi
Goodman, Schwerner
Chaney
Meridian
Mother of Chaney recalls son as civil rights martyr
The mother of Chaney says her son died for what he believed in and that his younger brother Ben will carry on as a civil rights worker. The Goodman family learns their son Andy was among the dead from a predawn White House call, stressing the tragedy is a national grief, not only a private loss.
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Ben
James
Chaney
Robert Goodman
Andy
White House
Elder Goodman
New York
Congolese Red Rebels Seize Stanleyville Outskirts Hold City
AP reports Congolese army fights Communist backed rebels on Stanleyville outskirts as rebels reportedly occupy the city. Troops guard airport area and control tower went off air after rebels claimed takeover. U S Consul Hoyt and four Americans said to be safe in Stanleyville.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Stanleyville
Congo
Popular Liberation Army
Brazzaville
Bujumbura
U.S
Michael Hoyt
Chicago
Health Care Fight Opens In Senate Finance Panel
In Washington the final push to enact a Social Security funded elderly health plan begins in the Senate Finance Committee. Secretary Celebrezze testifies for King-Anderson, proposing hospitalization nursing home diagnostic and home health benefits. The measure failed 52 to 48 in 1962.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Anthony J Celebrezze
King-Anderson
Senate
Gore Seeks Senate Support to Restore 1962 Vote
Sen. Albert Gore leads the effort in Clinton Andersons absence to push the proposal. He doubts Finance Committee approval but believes Senate sentiment has shifted enough in two years to reverse the 1962 vote.
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Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Gore
Senate
Anderson May Return in Time to Help Fight
Anderson, who had an operation in Albuquerque two weeks earlier, may return in time to assist. Gore proposed a health care amendment to the Social Security bill that passed the House last week. The measure would raise retirement and disability benefits by percent, enlarge survivor payments, and adjust the tax schedule to fund the changes.
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Anderson
Albuquerque
Gore
Weather forecast: warmer southerly winds return tonight
Northerly winds brought cooler Canadian air to Ohio yesterday and today. Tonight's low is expected in the 60s. Thunder showers possible tomorrow with highs near 90 and higher humidity. Yesterday's high reached 88 and today's low was 57.
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Ohio
Divers Find 17-Pound Spanish Silver Ingots Off Florida
Miami diver Martin Meylach and partner Don Thomas report newly found 17 pound Spanish silver ingots from the wreck of the 18th century Tres Puentes. Analysis shows ingots 95 to 99 percent pure silver, each about 10 inches across worth about 300 dollars per ingot.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Martin Meylach
Meylach
Don Thomas
Tres Puentes
Red China accuses US of aggression over Vietnam war
Peking Radio denounces U S air strikes against North Vietnam calling the action a grave escalation. China vows to oppose American aggression and pledges support to Hanoi as both sides warn of serious consequences. The North Vietnamese government also condemns the U S air raids as a severe act of war.
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Tokyo
Red China
United States
Viet Nam
U.S
Indochina
Peking Radio
North Viet Nam
Peking
Peking People's Daily
Democratic Republic of
Hanoi
United States Urged to Halt Provocative Acts Against North Vietnam
The appeal demanded that the United States stop all provocative acts and sabotaging moves against North Vietnam and urged signers of the 1954 Geneva accord to take timely measures to curb U.S. warmongers. Pro Western voices praised the stance while some expressed apprehension.
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United States
Viet Nam
Indochina
U.S
Debaters Consider North Vietnam In U N Council
Soviet delegate Morozov proposed a resolution asking the U N to obtain information from North Vietnam on the U S complaint and to invite North Vietnamese representatives to participate. Adlai Stevenson said the United States had no objection to inviting North Vietnam but South Vietnam should also be included. Morozov agreed to withdraw his resolution and let Nielsen prepare a new one.
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Platon D. Morozov
Council
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
United States
North Vietnam
Morozov
Nielsen
Ho Chi Minh
North Viet Nam
North Vietnamese Communist Party
Russia Trails U S In Math Says Visiting Professor
Bowling Green State University mathematics professor Dr Bruce R Vogeli who spent six months teaching in Moscow says the Soviet Union is about five years behind the United States in math education He was the first American to teach at Lenin Pedagogical Institute and notes Soviet curricula and methods lag behind American standards and some material would appear in U S high schools.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Bruce R. Vogeli
Lenin Pedagogical Institute
Sir Cedric Hardwicke dies at age 71 in New York
English born actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke died early today in New York at 71 after a long career on stage and screen grieving the theater world with his passing.
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New York
Cedric Hardwicke
Full Force Backed in Crisis by Senate Panels
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees approved a bipartisan resolution backing President Johnson's actions in Southeast Asia. The 31 to 1 vote moved to the Senate floor after a request from Secretary of State Rusk to affirm unity against Communist aggression. Only Senator Morse opposed, calling it a predicated declaration of war in Asia.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Southeast Asia
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Dean Rusk
Congress
Wayne Morse
Dore
Foreign Relations Committee
Asia
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Dark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rusk cites Tonkin attacks as not isolated
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and General Earle C. Wheeler told senators that recent North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks on U S destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin are not isolated incidents.
30 U S Air Force B57s Arrive as Saigon Crisis Gathers
About 30 U S Air Force B57 bombers joined American and South Vietnamese forces near Saigon as tensions with North Viet Nam rise. Four bombers reportedly crashed near Bien Hoa, with two pilots killed, as the region braces for possible retaliation amid revised alert levels.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Bien Hoa
Two 15-year-olds killed in Rhode Island cave-in
In Warwick, Rhode Island, two 15-year-old boys, Michael J. Kasek Jr. and Frank J. Laprochina Jr., died when a tunnel they dug collapsed during heavy rain. A 13-year-old, William E. Underwood Jr., was buried but rescued after two hours and seventeen minutes. a fourth boy was saved with minor injuries. Firefighters, police, and volunteers used a power shovel and backhoes to reach them. The trio had been digging tunnels beside a house foundation for four to five years.
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Warwick, R.I
Bruce Charon
Michael J. Kasek Jr
Frank J. Laprochina Jr
Warwick
William E. Underwood Jr
Kasek
Laprochina
Underwood
Rudolph Kingma
Charon
Billy
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