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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1968
Page
7
Rioting students and police battled on Milan streets during the first hot night since disturbances began. By daybreak over 200 demonstrators were jailed, with many injured along with police and civilians amid wreckage from smashed storefronts and cars.
Atty Gen Ramsey Clark said James Earl Ray, main suspect in Martin Luther King Jr. slaying, was arrested by Scotland Yard detectives in London while traveling under the alias Ramon George Sneyd. FBI Director Hoover said Ray is held on passport violations in maximum security. He carried a loaded pistol.
New York AP report says a printer from Syracuse was arrested as he tried to enter St Patrick's Cathedral ahead of a Kennedy funeral mass. The gun was not loaded and carried with a permit. A second AP item from Los Angeles notes Edyth Grant was arrested for smuggling three handguns hidden in a typewriter to an inmate at the central jail.
At St Patrick's Cathedral in New York crowds watched the Kennedy family pay solemn vigils by Robert F Kennedy's casket. Ethel Kennedy and her children, along with Jacqueline Kennedy and other relatives, repeatedly approached the catafalque as Edward Kennedy praised his slain brother and urged unity, faith, and sacrifice.
In Dallas at Parkland Hospital an initially successful heart transplant in a 41 year old Dallas mother of five functioned normally for about an hour and a half before unknown reasons caused its failure. The donor was 26 year old Bobby Wayne Blocker who died in a Dallas auto wreck. Surgeon Dr Watts Webb called the procedure technically satisfactory with the heart beating normally for 90 minutes before collapse.
In Saigon two districts saw light fighting as five weeks of enemy shelling drive civilian deaths to 196 and injuries to 672. Government reports say 12 Viet Cong killed and 13 captured in Cholon with five Viet Cong surrendering in Gia Dinh anh NE suburb. a deputy battalion commander was reportedly wounded and another killed. Ngo Cong Duc urged a halt to Paris talks if shelling continues.
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