Atlanta taxi driver ties 5.4 sketch to late night ride
An anonymous Atlanta taxi driver says a 5.4 sketch resembles a man he carried after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. He picked up the unnamed man at a coffee shop in Atlanta's hippie district on Friday night, April 5, and drove two blocks. Associated Press photo credit to Joe Zellner.
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Atlanta Cabbie Pins Sketch to Fatal King's Day Ride
An Atlanta taxi driver recalls a hurried passenger four blocks from a hip coffee house after Dr. King’s assassination. He identifies a FBI composite sketch as the man who rode with him April 5 and paid the fare in a hurry. The FBI and Atlanta police offered no comment.
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Peter Cherpes
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14Th Streets
Edna Ferber Dies Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist
New York AP reports Edna Ferber died at 82 in her Park Avenue apartment after a period of illness. The author of So Big Cimarron Show Boat Giant and other works insisted she could write about any place without firsthand experience. A funeral is planned in Newark Thursday.
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Reagan weighs growing support for presidential bid
California Governor Ronald Reagan says he will assess rising grassroots support for a national run after a report by Republican strategist F. Clifton White. He plans a speaking tour starting April 26 through the Midwest South and Hawaii and will meet Republican governors May 8 in San Francisco to discuss the party platform with Nelson Rockefeller and others.
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Two Virginians Die in Vietnam War
The Defense Department listed two more Virginians killed in action in Vietnam. Army Sgt. Ernest E. Lesure husband of Rosetta L. Lesure Chester Virginia and Army Pfc. Gerald C. Mull son of Max W. Mull Vienna Virginia were named Tuesday.
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