Abernathy Targets Nixon In Reeb Memorial Speech
Rev Ralph Abernathy vowed to press Nixon on racial issues, delivering the James J Reeb memorial lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary. He criticized Nixon's understanding of Negro concerns and urged ongoing advocacy despite the president elects stance. The remarks followed recollections of James Reeb, Selma protest martyr.
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Richard Nixon
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Nixon
Abernathy
James J. Reeb
Princeton
N.J
Reeb
Selma
Ala
California
U.S
Congress
First Negro Officer Receives Medal of Honor
President Johnson awards the Medal of Honor to Mrs. Eula M. Pitts for Capt. Riley Leroy Pitts, the first Black officer to earn the nation’s highest military honor. Pitts, with the 25th Infantry Division near Ap Dong, Vietnam, sacrificed himself during an assault after pinpointing Communist positions and shielding comrades with a grenade.
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Army
Riley Leroy Pitts
At & White House
Eula M. Pitts
Oklahoma City
Ap Dong
Vietnam
Pills
25Th Infantry
Pitts
Fitts
White House
Apollo 8 crew marked at White House moon party
President Johnson hosted the Apollo 8 astronauts William A. Anders Frank Borman and James A. Lovell Jr. with Space Agency chief James Webb. The trio danced with their wives as the Marine band played moon themed tunes. Webb received the Medal of Freedom and the group prepared for the December 21 flight while Lindbergh recalled his 1927 Spirit of St. Louis feat and praised lunar orbit capability.
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White House
Space Agency
James Webb
William A. Anders
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Marine Band
Moon
Moon River
Miami
Harper Valley
PTA
Johnson
Webb
Jacques Offenbach
Charles A. Eindbergh
Atlantic Ocean
St. Louis
Lindbergh
Smithsonian Institution
Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
Col
White House Treaty Room
Apollo
NASA
Woman in San Jose dies after new heart transplant
Mrs Georgette Larson 34 of San Jose became the second woman to receive a heart at Stanford Medical Center but died Monday night from a liver infection and pneumonia. She did not leave the hospital after Oct 5 when she received a donor heart. She faced a rejection episode about 10 days post transplant and developed a liver ailment last week.
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UPI
Georgette Larson
San Jose
Stanford Medical Center
Larson
Fake Officer in $816,667 Japan Theft
A man disguised as a traffic officer robbed Toshiba Electric Co employees on a road near Tokyo, stealing four bank employees’ Christmas bonus money totaling 816,667 dollars. He used their car and three metal boxes of banknotes with no shots fired or threats.
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Tokyo
UPI
Fuchu
Toshiba Electric Co
Hometown choices for Richard Nixon debated
Historians note the college town of Whittier with 75 000 residents and York Linda 15 miles east as candidates for Nixon’s hometown. A decision by businessman tourists was reached Monday after a dispute over where Nixon was born and raised.
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Whittier
Richard M. Nixon
Yorks Linda
Nixon
Yorba Linda
Russia boosts defense budget to 17.7 billion rubles for 1969
Moscow reports the next year defense outlay rising by 1 billion rubles to a record 17.7 billion as part of a 123.8 billion ruble national budget. Finance Minister Vasily Garbuzov notes the rise is slower than last year and reflects costs tied to Vietnam and the Arab-Israeli dispute. Western observers suspect much of military spending remains hidden under other items. The Kremlin signals an arms race response amid Western increases.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Vasily Garbuzov
West
Aides Called in Shepard Bribe Trial
Los Angeles councilman Thomas D. Shepard faces a prbery and conspiracy trial with subpoenas for several California public officials and former leaders. Prosecutors say Shepard received campaign contributions from San Fernando Valley developer Bryan Gibson. trial began in Superior Court.
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Shepard
Los Angeles
California
Thomas D. Shepard
John T. la Follette
Edmund G. Brown
San Fernando Valley
Bryan Gibson
Superior Cort
Classified notice lines and dates from Loneneach listings
A fragmentary classified item appears with entries resembling public notices and price figures. It mentions Loneneach and a series of cryptic codes, dates, and numbers including December and a listed year. The readable portion suggests a local notice or advertisement placeholder rather than a complete event.
Barth the Protestant theologian dies at 82 in Basel
Karl Barth, renowned Protestant theologian and critic of liberal theology, died at his Basel home at age 82. A Swiss native, he authored Church Dogmatics and shaped 20th century Christianity with wartime resistance to Nazism and a distant stance toward politics. His career included exile from Germany, Swiss army service, and influence on American and European theologians, with remarks on his anti-Americanism and impact on Christian unity.
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Switzerland
Karl Barth
Barth
John Calvin
Domi
University of
Bonn
Germany
Hts Old University
Markus
Princeton
Theological Seminary
University of Chicago
Albert Schweitzer
Pope Paul VI
Vatican City
Rome
Vatican
Christian Unity Secretariat
Djilas Receives 1969 U S Freedom Award in New York
Djilas former Yugoslav vice president freed last January received the 1969 Freedom Award at Freedom House dinner in New York. Bill Moyers presented the bronze plaque as the 57 year old author of The New Class and The Unperfect Society continues to publish despite a five year ban.
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Milovan Djilas
Yugoslavia
Europe
Djilas
Freedom House
Bill Moyers
Johnson
Newsday
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