Klansmen Face New Trial Pleas in Hattiesburg Case
In Meridian and Hattiesburg cases the FBI says the Ku Klux Klan conspired to deny civil rights. Twelve more White Knights go on trial in Hattiesburg starting November 13 for firebombing Vernon Dahmer’s home and linked murders from 1964.
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Miss
UPI
Hattiesburg
Samuel H. Bowers Jr
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
James Chaney
Bowers
Cecil Price
Alton Wayne Roberts
Jimmy Arledge
Billy Wayne Posey
Horace Doyle Barnette
Jimmy Snowden
Nobel Prize Geneticist Foresees Gene Therapy Advances
Nobel winner Prof. Joshua Lederberg of Stanford, speaking at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, suggests humans may soon alter traits and cure diseases by inserting new genes. He notes frog experiments and cross species gene transfers, and compares vaccination with live viruses to genetic interventions, discussing ethics and potential for lasting human changes.
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New York
Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University
Lederberg
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Rusk Leads Pro Policy Drive on Vietnam
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and top aides have mounted a broad public campaign to defend the Vietnam policy. The group has delivered at least 92 speeches this year to civic groups, religious groups, labor, and business audiences, aligning official messaging with the Johnson administration.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Johnson
Vietnam
Rusk
Nicholas de B. Katzenbach
Eugene V. Rostow
Foy D. Mohler
Freeman
Congress
State Department
Industry Won't Go To Slums
More than 100 of 700 major corporations survey showed willingness to relocate near slum areas but only under strict conditions. Fantus Company found firms require labor stability, training, union moratorium, industrial parks, affordable land, upgraded housing, and removal of ghetto blight before moving into decaying neighborhoods.
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Steven V. Roberts
New York
Fantus Company
Dun and Bradstreet
Governors Return Home From Governors Conference Cruise
Governors with presidential plans or concerns over antiwar protests left the SS Independence for home as the National Governors Conference cruise neared New York. The group voted to deny a Johnson Vietnam policy resolution, signaling the war would loom large in 1968, while Reagan and Romney headed back after appearances and fundraising on St. Thomas.
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ST. Croix
V.J
UPI
New York
Johnson
Vietnam
Ronald Reagan
California
Oakland
George Romney
Michigan
St. Thomas Island
Virgin Islands
White House
Washington
Harlem minister organizes armed militia amid crime surge
The Rev. Oberia D. Dempsey, Harlem clergyman, forms an armed militia and urges residents to buy guns to counter what he calls growing crime. He cites fears after dark and muggings as evidence of a crisis on 125th Street, Harlem’s economic hub.
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New York
Oberia D. Dempsey
Harlem
Dempsey
125Th Street
Mariner 5 Completes Venus Flyby Mission
Mariner 5 finished its primary mission with a two hour Venus flyby data playback and now sails 386,570 miles from Venus toward a solar orbit. The probe remains over 50.8 million miles from Earth as scientists analyze about 40 000 words and await a Monday report on findings.
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Calif
Mariner 5
America
Earth
Mariner
Venus
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United States
Dan Scheiderman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
E. C. Jones
Department of Electrical Engineering
WVU
Coal Research Bureau
School of Mines
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Kingwood
Helen M. Pavlech
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Aurora
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