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| |  | COLLIE WILKINS ON TRIAL FOR KILLING - 1965 - 1
During the murder trial of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo Alabama Klansman Collie Wilkins beats a hasty reatreat from reporters after a day in court. Jurors in the trial leave the courthouse slowly also hoping to avoid the media.
October, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:33:00
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| |  | BOXER JOEY GIARDELLO ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT - 1965
Middleweight champion boxer Joey Giardello talks discusses his retirement following his loss of the world middleweight title to Dick Tiger. Joey's young son Paul sits on his father's lap and shakes his head no when asked if he's going to be a fighter.
October 21, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:41:00
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| |  | ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNITY SUMMIT OPENS - 1965
The third summit conference of the ACCRA Organization of African Unity opens in Ghana. Photographs of leaders of the member states are displayed outside the conference hall while important issues are taken up inside by the Chairman and conference attendees.
October 21, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:39:00
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| |  | DUKE OF WINDSOR HAS EYE SURGERY - 1965
The Duke of Windsor checks out of the Eye Institute at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York after receiving a minor surgery on his eye. The Duke wears dark glasses but briefly takes them off before placing them back on and leaving with the Duchess of York for whom he once abdicated the throne of England.
October 23, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:57:00
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| |  | VIETNAM BATTLE OF BA LONG VALLEY OUTPOST - 1965
Following the battle of Ba Long Valley's military outpost in which the Viet Cong launched a night time attack wounded South Vietnamese and American soldiers seek medical help with others survey the damage and the dead.
October 22, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:01:19:00
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| |  | ANTI-COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATION IN JAKARTA - 1965
Protestors hold an anti-Communist
demonstration angered by Indonesian President Sukarno's friendly relationship with several communist countries.
October 21, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:42:00
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| |  | KLANSMAN COLLIE WILKINS ACQUITTED - 1965
Alabama Klansman Collie Wilkins is mobbed by reporters as he leaves the courthouse after his acquittal in the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. Cut to Wilkins defense attorney discussing the case and its fairness although news media at the time pointed out the decision was made by a jury of 12 white men including four challenged by Attorney General Richmond Flowers for racial prejudice.
October 22, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:01:34:00
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| |  | USS REPOSE RETURNS TO DUTY - 1965
The Naval hospital ship USS Repose is returned to service with a special recommissioning ceremony at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard. The Repose had been inactive since the end of the Korean conflict but was returned to duty during the Vietnam War.
October 16, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:52:00
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| |  | SENATOR KENNEDY LEAVES FOR VIETNAM - 1965
Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy says goodbye to his wife Joan and their children at the airport before heading to Vietnam to check out what is going on there.
October 21, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:44:00
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| |  | COLLIE WILKINS ON TRIAL FOR KILLING - 1965
Wearing a 10-gallon hat Alabama Klansman Collie Wilkins is pursued by reporters both before and after his day in court on charges of killing civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo.
October 21, 1965 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P | 00:00:29:00
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