SIU Alumni Star in MGM Film Shaft Premiering in St Louis
Richard Roundtree, a former SIU Carbondale student, now star of MGM’s Zoo Story Shaft, premieres in St Louis Mo. He studied acting here in 1961 after moving from New York where he joined the Negro Ensemble Company and earned lead roles in stage productions. He also gained fame as a model and Ebony Fashion Fair performer.
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Soul University
Roundtree
St. Louis
Jon
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Rochelle
SIU
Negro Ensemble Company
Carbondale
New York
Kon
Gi’s Harvest
Ebony , Fashion Fair Company
New York City
Police kill armed man in Chicago during Nixon visit
Secret Service investigates the Chicago shooting death of James E. Beavers 47 of Squire West Virginia in Grant Park near Nixon’s scheduled stop. Beavers fired at officers wounding a policeman. Beavers and notes of mental illness are cited by sisters. Joliet man charged with reckless driving for separate incident.
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Secret Service
James E. Beavers
Squire
W. Va
Beavers
Nixon
Grant Park
John H. Healy
Rosemarie Jackson
Elizabeth Chambers
Wa Va
Joliet
Jay C. Carlin
Carbondale
Pll
Michael Maurizio
Carlin
Daley Welcomes Nixon in Chicago Amid Bid for 1974 Convention
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley greeted President Nixon with a nighttime motorcade, escort, and a Front Street show including a Burnham Park water display and a marching band. Chicago and Miami bid to host the 1974 Republican National Convention, with San Diego favored by Nixon per rumors.
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Richard J. Daley
Daley
Nixon
White House
Miami
San Diego
Calif
San Clemente
Burnham Park
Continental Plaza
Ulth Ward
Dissident miners demand lie tests for UMW chief
Miners for Democracy leader Mike Trbovich urged UMW President Tony Boyle General Counsel Edward Carey and others to take lie detector tests to dispel suspicions tied to the December 31 1969 murders of Joseph Ya plonski his wife and daughter in Clarksville Pennsylvania A union spokesman declined comment and investigators have one confession and four arrests in the case
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Washington
United Mine Workers Union
Joseph A
Jock” Yaplonski
Mike Trbovich
Miners For Democracy
UMW
W. A
Tony” Boyle
Edward L. Carey
Union
District 19
Boyle
Yablonski
Clarksville
B52s strike twice near fire bases amid heavy fighting
In Saigon heavy clashes raged around abandoned Fire Base Fuller as U S B52 bombers struck twice to support South Vietnamese infantry against North Vietnamese mortar crews. Eight Americans reportedly escaped to a rear HQ after Fuller fell, with another B52 strike reported near Fire Base Sarge.
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Sarge
Fuller
Putzel
U. S
Puller
Johnson memoirs reveal plan for broader Vietnam role in 1964
Newsday reports Lyndon B. Johnson's unpublished White House memoirs show the administration prepared for large scale U.S. involvement in Vietnam earlier than publicly known. The Vantage Point depicts Johnson wavering on bombing plans in early 1965 and defending Kennedy's policy while avoiding a full allied fight.
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Garden City
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Vietnam
U. S
Newsday
Long Island
Pentagon
Johnson
North Vietnam
Not sure Mrs Reid will run Arends disputes remap
Springfield Illinois Rep. Leslie Arends doubts Charlotte Reid of Aurora will retire from Congress as a Republican district map proposed by Speaker W Blair would place them in the same district. An Arends aide says Reid may run. Arends opposes Blair’s plan which would remove Will, Iroquois and Kankakee counties from his district.
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Lindsay-Schaud News Service
Springfield
U.S
Leslie Arends
Charlotte Reid
Aurora
Congress
Arends
Robert Blair
Saic
Blair
Will
Iroquois
Kankakee
Extortion plot at Gary Post Tribune ends in gunfight
FBI reports an extortion attempt on Walter T Ridder, publisher of the Gary Post Tribune, failed after a gunfight during a payoff. John E Ward, 57, of Gary, was critically wounded and charged under federal extortion laws. Ward had been discharged from the paper years earlier.
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Gary
Ind
FBI
Walter T. Ridder
Ridder
Ridder Publications, Inc
C. Darrow Tulley
John E. Ward
Ward
Tully
No fault plan urged for railroad compensation
Theodore E. Desch of Rock Island Railroad urged a no fault compensation system for job injuries at an American Railroads meeting. He argued negligence no longer deters and that current suits delay recovery, with lawyers and investigators taking a large share of premiums.
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Chicago
Rock Island Railroad
Theodore E. Deseh
Association of American Railroads’ Mechanical Division
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