Pentagon After Protest Clashes at Doors
Demonstrators peak around 1,000 as clashes with marshals erupt near the Pentagon doors. Guards use minimum force to shield the building while hundreds encamp on the steps through Saturday night. Police arrest 240, with 34 sent by bus. Mailer jailed briefly then released on appeal. Cleanup begins as authorities clear debris and remove slogans. A woman in a leather jacket dubbed Miss America is briefly detained.
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Johnson
Pentagon
Defense Department
Washington
Norman Mailer
Texas
California
Berserk Worker Kills Six in Plant Rampage
A gunman at a paper plant in Lock Haven killed six and wounded several others before being captured about 95 minutes later. Police found three rifles and four pistols at his home and believe he fired at random during the spree. Victims include Donald Walden Arlen Parrett and Elmer Weaver from Lock Haven and Carmen H Edwards an engineer at Hammermill.
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Portedly
Held
Donald Walden
Arlen Parrett
Elmer Weaver
Lock Haven
Carmen H. Edwards
Mr Hall
Richard Davenport
Woolrich
Edwards
Hammermill
Quiggle
Donna
Soviet launches second Molniya 1 satellite
Tass reports the Soviet Union launched its second Molniya 1 satellite for a global space communication system. The satellite is functioning normally and data has been received. It aims to support long distance radio telephone radio telegraph and television links through the Orbita network to points in the north Siberia Far East and Central Asia.
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Moscow
UPS
Soviet Union
Tass
Orbita
Siberia
Far East
Central Asia
Yank Jets Hit Red PT Base
United States air and sea forces launch strikes against North Vietnamese bases in the Mekong Delta as about 4100 Army 198th Light Infantry Brigade troops move into northern South Vietnam. Navy jets sink a Vietnam PT boat and hit dry docks and fuel depots while a CIA aided operation captures Viet Cong leaders.
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198Th Light Infantry
Ft. Hood
Tex
South Vietnam
U.S
Mekong
Saigon
U.S. Navy
Nui Dong
North Vietnam
Jail 4 Negro Clerics Headed to Ala Rally
Four Negro ministers were arrested aboard a plane in Atlanta and processed at Jefferson County jail for five day contempt convictions from a 1963 protest. Revs Shuttlesworth Hayes Fisher Porter were named. King Jr and three others face terms next week. Supreme Court denial kept convictions, plus fines or 20 more days.
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Ala
Birmingham
Municipal
Jefferson County
Fréd Shuttesworth
Cincinnati
Ohio
J. Hayes
T. L. ‘Fisher
David Orange
Dan Jordan
Atlanta
Shuttlesworth
Orange
John T. Porter
Hayes
Fisher
Porter
Martin Luther King Jr
King
A. D. William King
Louisville
Wyatt Teé Walker
New York
Ralph Abernathy
U.S. Supreme Court
William Barber
Electric cars may replace gasoline autos in Southern California
Rep Craig Hosmer of California predicted electric automobiles could replace gasoline cars in Southern California if smog cannot be tackled another way. He cited US and foreign developments of compact lightweight electric cars potentially costing around 1000 dollars with estimates of significant fuel savings.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Craig Hosmer
Rcalif
California
Hosmer
United States
Race Strife Shuts Chicago Suburban High Schools
In Maywood Proviso East High School faced mass suspensions as more than 100 armed officers patrolled the campus after racial clashes. About 125 of 3,500 students were suspended for violence and vandalism, with 17 injuries and a dozen arrests tied to the incidents.
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Chicago
UPS
Proviso East High School
Maywood
Sheriff's
Waukegan Township High School
Joliet Township High School
Pahcemien
Nven
Norman Green
Green
Note on Kirschke ruling delayed by judge
Ramsey argues the letter shows no fear by Mrs Kirschke nor any effort to identify the killer of the dress designer and pilot who killed her lover William Crankhan. Harris says the note was drafted days before the Naples duplex murders on April 8 and outlines a May 1 1967 trial cohabitation plan for the Kirschkes and strict limits on contact until then.
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Ramsey
Mother Slain With Arrow by Husband in West Philadelphia
A mother of two, Annabella Booker, 26, was killed in her West Philadelphia bedroom by Vaughan Booker. He shot her three times in the neck and twice in the left side with a six foot bow and two inch arrows. He told investigators he tried to strangle his 2 year old son and then walked to his parents’ home to borrow a dime to call police.
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Philadelphia
Annabella Booker
West Philadelphia
Edmund J. Zongolowicz
Vaughan Booker
Booker
Zongolowicz
Burglar Steals Military Items From Cars on Coast Highway
Long Beach police report a burglar broke into two cars on 6200 East Pacific Coast Highway taking only military clothing and sails. Phyllis Goins says about 500 dollars of clothing were taken from her car while civilian clothes remained. Donald Wendling reports two sails and a sail cover valued at 750 dollars stolen, other boat gear left behind.
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Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach
Phyllis Goins
Donald Wendling
Bomb scare again clears visitors from US warship Wainwright
In Wellington New Zealand the guided missile frigate Wainwright again received bomb hoaxes forcing hundreds to leave the dock. Captain G E Lockee warned hoaxes could drive naval visits away while protesters claimed no responsibility for the scare despite demonstrators on the wharf. A placard on a building praised US defense in World War II.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Wainwright
G. E. Lockee
Fire at Wilmington trash pit men battle flames
Firefighters from Harbor Division battled a large blaze at the Ascon Dump on Wilmington soaking the pit with water from a hydrant a quarter mile away. The tire-filled pit smoked heavily as flames rolled from the waste on Sunday afternoon.
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Wilmington
Ascon
Harbor Division
Almeda
Pacific Coast Highway
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