Pilot implicated in JFK death, apparent suicide
NEW ORLEANS—(UPI) —The operator of a private airline service whom Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison said was involved in events leading to the assassination of President Kennedy was found dead Wednesday a few days before Garrison planned to arrest him.
A bottle of pills was found nearby, along with an unsigned note calling the world a "loathsome" place.
The district attorney called the death of David W. Ferrie, 43, apparent suicide.
Coroner Nicholas J. Chetta said death resulted from a blood vessel rupture at the base of the brain.
THE CORONER'S office, however, declined to be specific on what might cause the vessel to rupture.
Ferrie, a former Eastern Air Lines pilot, was found dead in the bedroom of his apartment in
an upper middle class neighborhood.
Garrison described the dead man as "one of history's most important individuals" and said he was "involved in events culminating in the assassination of President Kennedy."
Garrison, at a hurried news conference, announced dramatically he now was not even accepting the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy in 1963.
Ferrie's name was mentioned in the Warren Commission Report and he was questioned here shortly after the assassination. He came under investigation again in Garrison's new probe.
Ferrie said in a copyrighted interview Saturday with the New Orleans States-Item he was afraid he was suspected of being a "getaway pilot in an elaborate plot" to kill Kennedy.
War operation tops all
Senator says draft change is desirable
SAIGON—(UPI) —The most massive military operation of the war, including the first large-scale American combat parachute jump since Korea, drove through the main Viet Cong stronghold today in an effort to catch an entire Communist division in a horseshoe-shaped trap.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., today offered a five-point program to overhaul the draft and announced an investigation of the Selective Service System's "discrimination" against American youth.
"Our present system is neither fair, nor equitable nor just," he said. "It's policies are discriminatory."
In a speech prepared for Senate delivery, Kennedy charged that the draft was failing to meet its national responsibilities.
- Elimination of individual states' quotas in favor of a national registration system for the draft.
- Random selection of draftees similar to the fish bowl or lottery system of World War I.
- Kennedy proposed:
- Limited deferments. A college student would be permitted to postpone service for a maximum of four years under current conditions but not in the event of a national emergency.
- Calling the youngest eligible men.
- Noncombatant service for the physically and mentally defective.
A Communist division numbers up to 6,000 men.
The offensive was launched against the Communists in the heavily-jungled War Zone C near
BULLETIN
COLUMBIA, Mo.—(UPI)—Bob Vanatta, whose life-long dream of coaching basketball at the University of Missouri, turned into a nightmare of losing, resigned today, effective at the end of the season.
the Cambodian border( about 57 miles northwest of Saigon. It is the headquarters of the Viet Cong in South Vietnam.
The Tigers, lodged in the Big Eight cellar with a 1-9 record and 3-18 for the season, has four games remaining.
The operation involved as many as 25,000 American combat troops, plus tens of thousands of support elements, including planes and artillery.
Missouri could finish with its worst roundball campaign in history should the Tigers drop their four remaining games.
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The drive was kicked off Tuesday as U.S. military spokesmen in Saigon reported that American servicemen last week suffered their heaviest death toll in more than a year.
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They said 172 American troops were killed but in the same period there were 2,092 Communist deaths—the worst loss rate of the war for the Reds.
ASC groups plot wins
"We are working for a KU victory week—March 4-11—when we play Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas State," said Fred Krebs, Shawnee Mission junior and ASC Traditions Committee chairman.
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The Weather Bureau predicts occasional snow flurries late this afternoon and early this evening. Clearing and much colder with diminishing winds tonight. Friday generally fair and cold. Low tonight zero to five above. High Friday near 30.
Krebs made his remarks after a Traditions Committee meeting was cancelled last night because of an ASC meeting. Despite the cancellation, Krebs said the committee was fully agreed on plans,
BUMPER SIGNS and long-range plans for a special relays event are included in plans for the victory week, Krebs said.
TRY - OUTS FOR POM - PON girls and cheerleaders will be in mid-April.
"Since there will be no relays parade," Krebs said, "the Traditions Committee is seeking something to attract students. We are thinking of a torch relay from Toneka to the campus."
Krebs said he will discuss plans for spring football practice with Pepper Rogers, football coach.
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