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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1969
Page
6
Antonio Gil, a Spanish apprentice, gains experience at Las Ventas in Madrid after being unseated but escaping uninjured. The incident occurs during a bullfight captured by AP Wirephoto.
A Spanish speaking man with a knife and a bottle marked explosives hijacked a Newark to Miami DC8 with 89 aboard heading to Cuba. His wife and 15 year old daughter accompanied him. The plane returned to Miami after hours in Havana. the hijacker group remained in Cuba.
S Strother Smith a Republican candidate claimed Gov Mills Godwin Jr granted pardons in 1967 to aid Democratic candidates. He said 44 pardons in southwestern Virginia included many just before the general election and voting rights were restored to facilitate votes. Smith and Paul Bright were nominated to run for House seats.
The dodo, Mauritius's famed flightless bird, disappeared from the island nearly 300 years ago. Once abundant, it fell to sailors, pigs, and rats, with its name derived from Portuguese for simpleton.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller expressed satisfaction with the fourth fact finding mission to Latin America. He planned to conclude the trip with visits to Argentina Haiti the Dominican Republic Jamaica and Barbados after postponing Venezuela Peru and Chile at host governments' requests.
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