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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1974
Page
7
The United States will launch Skynet 2, a British built military communications satellite, from Cape Canaveral tonight. The Delta rocket, priced around 44 million dollars, will place the satellite in stationary orbit over the Atlantic Ocean near 22,300 miles.
In Long Beach Superior Court, 29 year old Benjamin Gregory is named as the victim killed by three men after a June robbery. Thomas Bailey, a California Youth Authority inmate from Los Angeles, testified he helped set up the crime but denied firing the fatal shots. Bailey implicated two others, Ron Greissell and Raymond Harris, as participants. An eyewitness, Charles Graham, said he could not identify suspects due to poor lighting, but supported being forced into the vehicle.
Frank Samson pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to manslaughter in the acid bath killing of Jim Summers in 1970. Wallace, his co-defendant, is serving a life term for the murder. Samson admitted helping Wallace to fill a tub with sulfuric acid to dispose of the body.
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