Intensive de briefing begins for Apollo 8 crew
Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders begin a full day of de briefing at Space Center Houston as NASA releases color Earth and Moon photos from the mission. They will document the flight event by event for a nine of the next ten days and record conversations for the final report.
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Florida Peninsula
North Atlantic
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Moon Pictures From Apollo Return From Space Center
Apollo astronauts released Sunday images captured 70 miles above the moon. Pictures, the first free of long distance transmission distortion, were beamed from film brought back by the crew and show the Goclenius crater and Magelhaens clusters with the earth rising 240000 miles away.
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I Etter
Start of New Year Cease-Fire Ignored by Both Sides
Viet Cong and allied forces reported ongoing combats as a 72 hour ceasefire began at 1 am Saigon time. Helicopters were shot down raising U S losses to 968 with two killed and three wounded in the incidents. US and South Vietnamese forces rejected the ceasefire while noting limited enemy activity and light US casualties.
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25Th Infantry
U.S
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Today In History December 30 1968 highlights
On this date a series of historic events are noted including the 1853 Gadsden Purchase of 45 000 square miles from Mexico, Rudyard Kipling's birth in 1865 in Bombay, Italian bombing of a Swedish Red Cross unit in 1935, the torpedoing of Aragon in 1917, Allied daylight raid on Lorient in 1942, King Michael abdication in 1947, Hitler's will release in 1945, notes to the Soviet Union in 1958 seeking a united Germany, and Pope Paul VI meeting Patriarch Athenagoras during a Holy Land tour in 1963.
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Gadsden Purchase
Rudyard Kipling
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India
Ethiopia
Aragon
Mediterranean
Lorient
France
Michael
Romania
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Eva Brat
Pueblo crewmen recount brutal months in captivity
Two Pueblo enlisted men described in detail the beatings and terror endured during about a month under North Korean captors. Cmdr Bucher said threats created fear among his crew as U.S. and Navy officials released statements and launched investigations into the incident.
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Barry Kramer
San Diego
Calif
Uss Pueblo
Cmdr
Lloyd Bucher
C. Charles B., Law Jr
Port Townsend
Wash
U.S. Naval Hospital
Adm
Horace Warden
Seoul
Navy
Hayes
Inlelt
Bucher
Johnson
Washington
North Korea
U.S
Pueblo
Liberty
Stock Market Declines Amid Mixed Wall Street Trading
In New York trading the stock market edged lower with more downticks than advances. The Dow fell slightly while overall losses outpaced gains by about 190 issues on the New York Stock Exchange. International Nickel rose a point against the trend.
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