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University Daily Kansan
Page 0422_1 from reel: L 734 (1963-02-04 to 1963-08-02)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-udk/75841

Title: Cooper Stole the Show Last Week
Summary: Article covering astronaut Gordon Cooper's successful Mercury space flight and related national news including civil rights developments in Birmingham, Alabama with federal troop deployment and school desegregation efforts.
Category: national news
Subjects: space exploration; astronauts; civil rights; racial segregation; federal intervention
Named Entities: Cooper, L. Gordon [astronaut]; Kennedy, John F. [president]; Wallace, George C. [Alabama governor]
Confidence: 0.9

Title: Hold It, Gordo — My Turn to Orbit and Take Shots of You
Summary: Cartoon featuring a caricature of Earth taking photographs of astronaut Gordon Cooper during his space mission, with humorous text referencing the space flight.
Category: editorial cartoon
Subjects: space exploration; humor; satire
Confidence: 0.85

Title: [comic strips]
Category: comic strips
Confidence: 0.8

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