Gun control and crime rise in FBI report 1967
FBI Uniform Crime Reports reveal 89 percent rise in serious crime since 1960 with firearms used in 63 percent of murders. Gun murders surged in states without strict controls, while four Northeastern states show low gun murder rates. Texas and California report high gun-related homicides amid policy debates and officer fatalities.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
United States
Rhode Island
New York
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Texas
California
Kansas GOP Platform Adopts Minor 1968 Changes
The Kansas Republican Party Council approves a mostly advisory draft platform with three key policy areas: education, transportation, and taxation. It adds civil obedience language condemning violent civil disobedience, supports an accelerated highway program, more state aid for schools, and open housing legislation. The platform also favors five constitutional amendments, including four year governor terms, more amendments allowed at general elections, expanded lieutenant governor duties, staggered Senate elections, and elected special sessions by petition.
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Topeka
Kansas Republican Party Council
State Senate
Democratic National Convention Ends Early After Vietnam Fight
The Democratic National Convention adjourned abruptly at 2 17 am EDT after a volatile clash over Vietnam policy. Delegates clashed as the platform favored Johnson Humphrey positions while a minority urged an immediate bombing halt, prompting Mayor Daley to move adjournment and the hall to empty.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Richard J. Daley
Humphrey
North Vietnam
Eugene J. McCarthy
George S. McGovern
Edward M. Kennedy
Minority Report
Frank Mankiewicz
McGovern
Hale Boggs
Platform Committee
Wisconsin
Boggs
Rep
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Phillip Burton
California
Albert
Sen
Joseph Clark
Pennsylvania
John Bailey
Daley
Shelter plan offers mine stocked for 2000 people
A Vermont nuclear shelter group may accept a Johnson & Johnson offer of a tale mine stocked with provisions for 2000 people for five southern Vermont communities. Mt. Ascutney Nuclear Shelter Association will decide on the proposal after a residents meeting.
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Ascutney, Vt
Vermont
Mt. Ascutney
Johnson & Johnson Co
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