18 Jul 1968
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1968
Page
1
The Longbotham family reunion will gather at the Community Building in Seminole Texas this weekend with third and fourth cousins attending. Old Kentucky ties surface as tales of Thomas kin and Bardstown connect. plans note a large table, food, and a fiddlers contest but no date is given.
Fifty six passengers from a National Airlines DC8 hijack to Cuba returned to the United States aboard a State Department charter. Crew said the hijacker, who claimed Fidel ordered him back, remained in Havana after the dramatic sequence ending with a fuel stop in New Orleans and a split to Veradero before final arrival in Miami.
National Broadcasting Company stations in the southwest work with New Mexico tourism to televise the $600000 Ruidoso Futurity in September. Tourism Director Mike Doran says eleven NBC affiliates are promoting the horse race on network outlets.
Nine children and two adults died when a frame and stucco multi family home in St Albans Queens burned. An 11th victim survived after leaping from a second floor window. Police and fire officials cited a faulty alarm as a factor in the tragedy. Names of the deceased include Bessie Berry and her children Charlene Denise Reginald and Janie, Bobbie Jeanie Gibson, Darlene Black and her sister Sheila, Sheila Holst and Charles Holst.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower endorsed Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination at a Walter Reed news conference. Despite his own policy of waiting for nominational outcomes, Eisenhower cited Nixon's service and personal qualities. His remarks came as he recovers from heart attacks, with grandson David Eisenhower leading Youth for Nixon and engaged to Nixon’s daughter Julie.
Nine AWOL servicemen ended a 48 hour antiwar protest by having chains cut from a church service and being taken to the Presidio stockade. The event began at Howard Presbyterian in San Francisco and moved to St Andrews in Marin City after a bomb threat.
President Johnson and Secretary Rusk head to Hawaii for a private summit with South Vietnam President Thieu. They will discuss Southeast Asia war matters and Paris peace talks, with Defense Secretary Clifford arriving to join in the discussions.
A meeting to form a New Mexico Aggie Booster Club was canceled because NMSU Basketball coach Lou Henson could not attend. The time will be rescheduled and announced later.
Senate hearings feature Abe Fortas saying he cannot link Supreme Court decisions to rising crime but will decide cases on constitutional grounds. Senator Thurmond accuses the court of releasing rapists and murderers on technicalities as Fortas emphasizes judicial duty to obey the law and avoid answering certain questions.
Anti American violence erupts in Ankara with youths throwing ink eggs and stones at American servicemen families and offices. Police guard U S installations as sailors suffer injuries after a wave of attacks following a goodwill visit by the U S Sixth Fleet.
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