By the looks and sounds of it, August 22, 1963 was a relatively calm day – no hint at what was just around the corner, but plenty of warning signs.
In the area of disasters, one was unfolding near the Mining town of Hazleton Pennsylvania as the drama of several trapped miners entered its eighth day.
Contact was made overnight with a third missing miner, trapped for the better part of a week. He was reported alive and in good condition. escape hole for the three Two of the men, trapped able to talk to the surface reported they had reestablished 40 hours, with a companion them by a wall of debris fled after the main mine days ago. A six-inch shaft drilled 327| feet through rock and coal reached the area where Louis Bova has been “trapped. No: word had been heard from him’ since Monday morning when two other miners trapped nearbv reported losing contact with him. The other miners, David Fellin and Henry Throne, are communicating with the surface through a similar six inch shaft.
Meanwhile, from South Vietnam – Martial law has been declared in Saigon, capital of dissension torn South Vict Nam, the U. S. Embassy’ in Tokyo was informed Wednesday. An embassy spokesman said no further details were immediately available. But it seemed apparent that violence had crupted in the Vietnamese capital, center of a bitter struggle between Buddhist leaders and the government of President Ngo| Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic.
The U. S. State Department in Washington said it had received the embassy report.
An embassy spokesman said no further details were immediately available. But it seemed apparent that violence had crupted in the Vietnamese capital, center of a bitter struggle between Buddhist leaders and the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, a Roman Catholic. The U. S. State Department in Washington said it had received the embassy report.
And finally – news reports covering the arrival of Henry Cabot Lodge to assume his duties as the new U.S. ambassador to Saigon and the resignation of South Viet Nam’s ambassador to Washington today dramatized opposition to the crackdown on Buddhist foes of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Lodge took a U.S. military plane from Japan for the flight to Saigon as the representative of a government supporting Diem both financially and militarily in his war against Communist guerrillas – which angrily denounced the attacks on Buddhist pagodas yesterday. Lodge, 61, a Republican, succeeds Frederick E. Nolting Jr.
And that’s some of what happened, this August 22, 1963 as reported by ABC Radio news reports from the field for later broadcast on Network hourly news programs.
