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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, December 12, 1968
TWA jet hijacked to Cuba
MIAMI (UPI)—A Trans World Airlines (TWA) jet carrying 39 persons—including country singer Tex Ritter and golfer Mason Rudolph—was hijacked and diverted to Cuba yesterday while on an inaugural flight from Nashville, Tenn., to Miami.
The hijacker apparently ordered the pilot to maintain radio silence during the flight from Tennessee to the Communist island.
The flight continued in silence to the Communist island, where it set down safely at 12:30 p.m.
The Boeing 727 had a Kansas City crew that left about 7 this morning.
The flight actually began out of St. Louis and the plane was hi-jacked after it left Nashville, Tenn.
"I have a man on board who wants to go to Cuba and I'm taking him," radioed TWA pilot Dennis Maloney about 29 minutes after the plane took off from Nashville.
The first report of the hijacking—the nation's 16th this year
TWA said Maloney radioed that "A guy has a gun at my back and he is forcing us to go to Havana. We are proceeding there."
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)-Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison yesterday set ati. 21, the day after Richard Nixon is sworn in as President, for the trial of Clay L. Shaw on charges of conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
Shaw, 55, would go on trial in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in a jury trial presided over by Judge Edward Hagerty.
Shaw trial set for January 21
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week denied a restraining order asked by Shaw against Garrison which would have prohibited the district attorney from prosecuting him.
"The moment of truth has arrived in this case," the flamboyant district attorney told a news conference. "Even if I'm killed the Clay Shaw case will go to trial."
Garrison says Shaw, the silver-haired former director of the New Orleans International Trade Mart, conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald and "others" to kill Kennedy, a few months before the President was shot to death in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963.
Shaw has denied all the charges.
Counselor held on drug charges
WICHITA (UPI)—A man identified as a rehabilitation counselor at the state penitentiary at Lansing was held here Wednesday on charges of possession of a stimulant drug for purposes of delivery to the prison.
The U.S. attorney's office said Lawrence D. Yerkes, 27, whose address was given as Larned, was charged with possession of one pound of amphetamine sulfate, said to be worth some $20,000 behind prison walls.
and TWA's first—came when the pilot radioed the Atlanta air route traffic control center.
Yerkes was arrested "in the Wichita area" Tuesday night by local and federal officers acting in concert. He was identified as an employee of the state's division of vocational rehabilitation.
The hijackers, who seized the plane at gunpoint, were not identified by Cuban authorities.
Havana International Airport eyewitnesses described the hijackers as a light-complexioned Negro man and a black woman. Both wore light tan topcoats. The man wore a black beret and was attired in an orange sports shirt and dark slacks. The woman carried several packages.
As in previous cases, the hijackers were the first to leave the plane after it landed in Havana.
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The couple left the plane by rear door and shook hands with a Cuban security agent awaiting them there. They were immediately escorted to the main airport office and isolated.
The spokesman said that as with other hijack cases, the crew probably would fly back today. The passengers would stay in Cuba overnight, and return by international airlift DC6 today.
The rest of the passengers and crew aboard left the jetliner 10 minutes later.
TWA said international airlift persons had been notified, and were making arrangements, adding that the passengers might be brought back as early as last night.
to Miami from Havana at 8:25 p.m.
Another plane brought the passengers back to Miami. Both crew and passengers were subjected to lengthy interviews by federal agents before being released.
The plane and crew returned
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—Pickets chanting strike slogans tried today to disrupt classes at embattled San Francisco State College as weather turned fair following a two-day rainstorm.
Pickets disrupts San Francisco State College
or No Studies," "Institutional racism must go," and "Make college serve the people."
About 30 pickets appeared on the campus yelling, "On strike, shut it down." They also carried signs which read: "Black Studies
The demonstrators fled as a squad of 40 officers moved into the campus.
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