JFK and Aides Intimately Involved in Vietnamese Coup
Chicago Sun Times reports declassified State Department and Pentagon documents show President Kennedy and his advisers were intimately involved in the maneuvering that toppled South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. The papers include a Sept 17 1963 NSC decision to apply pressure on Diem backers and recommended actions against Diem moves to counter generals or negotiate with North Vietnam.
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JFK
Chicago
UPI
Chicago Sun-Times
State Department
Pentagon
John F. Kennedy
Ngo Dinh Diem
Sun-Times
Morton Kondracke
Thomas B. Rossi
Kennedy
National Security Council
Dean
Boe LI
Viuloer Ivngby Dinh Nhu
Secret Police
Diem
Roger Hilsman
Dean Rusk
Hilsman
Themelves
United States
Beckley Mayor launches $80,000 pool drive
The Beckley mayor announces July as Build a Swimming Pool Month and a campaign to raise $80,000 in private contributions. A $5,000 personal gift is noted as a kickoff to fund a city recreation project addressing a long-standing pool deficiency.
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Beckley
John H. McCulloch
A. P
Tony
Soviet Jews on trial accused of anti Soviet propaganda plot
Tass reports in Kishinev nine Soviet Jews used a copying machine to forge slanders and cited a 1970 hijack plan with Israeli aid. Also noted are three Huttonsville Center escapees captured near Durbin after fleeing Monday. First group of American scholars welcomed to Canton China after 22 years. Akron police quell riot with tear gas after shooting incident. July proclaimed Build a Swimming Pool in Beckley with $80,000 goal and 50 50 matching funds from federal sources.
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Tass
Kishinev
Israel
Huttonsville Correctional Center
Durbin
Focahontas County
China
Canton
Stanford
Senate votes for swift Vietnam withdrawal with POW release
The Senate on a 57 to 42 roll call urged swift U.S. exit from Indochina with the release of prisoners of war as a condition. Nixon maintained his policy of withdrawal and Saigon’s survival, saying the Senate action is not binding and is not the whole Congress view.
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Washington
Saigon
Senate
U.S
Vietnam
Mike Mansfield
Nixon
Roald Ziegler
Congress
Ziegler
House
Vealey pleads guilty in Yablonski murders to implicate two
Claude Vealey 26 of Cleveland admits killing UMW official Joseph Yablonski and his wife and daughter in Clarksville Pa. He implicates Aubran Martin and Paul Gilly in the Dec 31 1969 killings and describes payoffs of 1750 dollars each. Martin Gilly and others face murder charges awaiting trial.
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Vealey
Yablonski
Washington, Pa
UPID
Claude Vealey
Cleveland
United Mine Worker
UMW
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Washington County
Charles Sweet
FBI
Yablonskis
Clarksville
Aubran Martin
Paul Gilly
Martin
Charlotte Yablonski
Gilly
Margaret Yablonski
Monongahela River
Annette
Silous Huddleston
LaFollette
Tenn
Annette Gilly
Huddleston
Sweet
Ohio
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Boyle
Newspapers battle over Pentagon report declassification
The Post and Times face court orders not to publish more of the Pentagon report while the Globe fights a similar restraint. The Sun-Times printed a State Department file from 1963 about the Kennedy era coup. Declassification efforts and possible Supreme Court review loom as courts hear appeals.
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United Press International
Pentagon
Chicago Sun-Times
State Department
Vietnam
Washogat
The
Post
the Times
Boston Globe
William R. Glendon
U.S
Whitney North Seymour
Appeals Court
New York
Times
Senators Back Mansfield Amendment on Vietnam War
West Virginia's senate delegation helped pass the Mansfield Amendment to slow the war in Vietnam. Sen. Robert Byrd favored speedy troop withdrawal but opposed public notice of withdrawal dates. Sen. Jennings Randolph said Congress and the President should work toward ending the Indochina war and repatriating POWs.
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Washington
UPI
West Virginia
Senate
Vietnam
Robert C. Byrd
Jennings Randolph
Congress
Rangers Fuel Reclamation Site Stripped of Photos Sparks Suit
A $190000 lawsuit filed in U S District Court in Charleston accuses three Ranger Fuel Co workers of assaulting four observers at a Boone County strip mine while they photographed reclamation work on a landslide. The plaintiffs Edward Hughes Metta Hughes Tyann Adams and Robert Handley seek a restraining order to stop interference with filming.
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Charleston
API
Ranger Fuel Co
Boone County
St. Albans
Boone
U.S. District Court
W.va
John Boettner
Edwards
Metta Hughes
Tyann Adams
Barrett
Robert Handley
Coal River Improvement Association
Jerry Marks
Charles Hawks
Erert Holmes
Madison
Handley
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Ranger
Nixon Sends Secret Vietnam Report To Congress
President Nixon ordered the secret Rettagon report on Vietnam sent to Congress. White House press secretary Ziegler said the 7,000 pages were delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee to avoid a distorted impression from partial publication. The papers remain top secret pending declassification review.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Vietnam
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Ziegler
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mansfield
Kennedy
Johnson
Weather outlook with scattered thundershowers
Variable cloudiness with a chance of thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Highs in the upper 70s. Partly cloudy tonight in the upper 50s. Thursday highs in the upper 70s. Probability of precipitation 30 percent this afternoon, 10 percent tonight and Thursday. Detials on Page 27.
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Chicago Sun Times Reports
Sun- Times
Janne Mia Af Lin Lenshan Aten
Abn
al Neo Py
Mayor
Akron
Harold Summerville
Maller
Frank Rodriguez
Tony” Gonzalez
Rahall Broadcasting Co
WWNR
U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Hor Gonzalez
Rodriguez
South Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
Ecolo
Jest
By Bill Dana
Amqsuel Funes
Claude
Globe
Washi
Indochina
Truman
Justice Department
Erwin N. Griswold
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Griswold
William P. Rogers
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Joint Chiefs of
Rep
Paul M. McCloskey J Jr
Calif
Defense Department
Daniel Ellsberg
Ranger Fuel ‘Reclamation
Hughes
Coal River
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
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