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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1968
Page
2
Juan Romero, 17, stood by Senator Robert F. Kennedy after the shooting, later recalling the moment he pressed a rosary into Kennedy’s hands. He received letters and rosaries from around the world and faced questions about violence and humanity.
Two California banks, Security First National Bank of Los Angeles and Pacific National Bank of San Francisco, announce a merger creating Security Pacific National Bank with $300 million in capital and surplus. The merger, approved by the Comptroller of the Currency and backed by the Justice Department not opposing on antitrust grounds, combines Security’s 356 Southern California locations with Pacific National’s single unit.
President Johnson signed a sweeping crime control act authorizing a five year, 100 million dollar federal grant program to aid state and local police, allow admissibility of confessions and eyewitness identifications, permit wiretapping under court orders, and tighten gun and FBI director rules, amid debate over civil liberties and constitutional limits.
About 15,000 delegates at the national Jaycees convention in Phoenix endured a brutal parade as the sun baked the downtown route to 115 degrees. Roughly 150 spectators and participants suffered heat prostration, most treated at hotels or hospitals. despite pleas to move it to night, organizers pressed on.
In Woodland Hills, the 15 month old twin daughters Sandrina and Christina Austin drowned in the family pool. The ten-year-old brother Kevin retrieved them from the water as their mother Carmelita and a neighbor performed mouth to mouth resuscitation. Authorities believe the infants left the house through an open sliding door and fell in while playing.
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In Washington the Poor People’s Campaign gains momentum as Ralph Abernathy pledges to stay until justice rolls out of Congress. Attendance peaks around 50,000 with leaders King and Humphrey present, urging action on racism poverty and war.
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