Events Reported in The News
The following events are reported in the order given:
- A dispute in the House of Representatives over "the civil rights bill". It is stated that President Johnson had originally proposed a full ban on discrimination for any type of housing — dismissed as "having no chance" — and that "a compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee."
- The death of comedian Lenny Bruce from an overdose of narcotics at the age of 42 .
- Dr. Martin Luther King reaffirming plans for an open housing Civil Rights march into Cicero, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It is stated that Cook County sheriff Richard Ogilvie urged its cancellation, and that Cicero police plan to ask the National Guard to be called in.
- The grand jury indictment of Richard Speck for the murder of nine student nurses.
- Disruption by protesters at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings into anti-Vietnam War protests
- A speech by "former Vice-President Richard Nixon" to the Veterans of Foreign Wars urging an increase in the war effort in Vietnam, and calling opposition to the war the "greatest single weapon working against the United States".
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“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgement.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news
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