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Louisiana Top News of 1969 From AP Poll
The AP poll names major Louisiana stories of 1969 led by school desegregation orders and Clay Shaw’s acquittal. Hurricane Camille ranks third, with Gremillion indictment and LLAT case among top ten, plus Union Faith collision, Texas jail escapees, domed stadium plans, Leander Perez Sr. death, campus protests, and Partin indictment.
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New Orleans
Clay Shaw
Kennedy
Louisiana
Associated Press News and
Jack Gremillion
Louisiana Loan & Thrift Corp
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
John McKeithen
Dist. Atty
Jim Garrison
Shaw
Criminal District Court
Garrison
Camille
Gulf of Mexico
Plaquemines Parish
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Office of Emergency Planning
Plaquemines
Gremillion
LLAT
Salvador Anzelmo
Joseph Kavanaugh
Baton Rouge
Charles Ritchey
Metairie
Ernest A. Bartlett Jr
Ft Smith
Ark
Union Faith
Mississippi River
Louisiana Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
Jolhun Schwegmann
Associated Press
Texas
Domed Stadium
Leander Perez Sr
Edward Partin