Nov-Dec 1965 bound volume newspapers GEMINI ROCKETS link in SPACE + Civil Rights

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Seller: qrst ✉️ (42,450) 99.9%, Location: Oxford, Maryland, US, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 371862659721 Nov-Dec 1965 bound volume newspapers GEMINI ROCKETS link in SPACE + Civil Rights.

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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE bound volume containing approximately 52+ issues of an ORIGINAL newspaper, the Bennington Daily Banner (VT) dated from Nov 1- Dec 31, 1965. 

This is a bound volume of this newspaper and has the issues bound in between hard binding covers. All of the newspapers between the dates noted above are present.

This includes the historic GEMINI  VI and VII link-up in space, coverage of the Civil Rights movement, The Battle for Da Nang in the VIETNAM WAR and the great POWER BLACKOUT that stuck the North-East states.

Some of the events that took place during this time period include:

1965        Nov 8, The American television soap opera “Days of Our Lives” premiered with Frances Reid (1914-2010) as Alice Horton. Reid spent over 40 years playing Alice Horton on the daytime soap.

1965        Nov 9, A major power failure hit the East Coast of the US. New York City experienced a major blackout just after 5:30 PM. In the great Northeast blackout several US states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. Nine Northeastern states and parts of Canada went dark in the worst power failure in history, when a switch at a station near Niagara Falls failed.

1965        Nov 9, Roger Allen LaPorte a 22 year old former seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker movement, immolated himself at the United Nations in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.

1965        Nov 11, Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) under PM Ian D. Smith (d.2007) proclaimed its independence from Britain.

1965        Nov 12, Ferdinand Marcos was elected president of Philippines.

1965        Nov 14, US government sent 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.

1965        Nov 15, In the second day of combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia Drang Valley, South Vietnam.

1965        Nov 16, Walt Disney launched Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida. Epcot opened in 1982.


1965        Nov 16, In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulsed NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley. Joe Galloway served at LZ X-ray. He later received the Bronze Star for his actions during the epic battle. Based on that and his subsequent actions in Vietnam, Galloway came to be regarded by the military leadership and the GIs alike as a journalist who was fair, objective, and who could be trusted to get the story right. He co-authored with Lt. Gen. Hal More "We Were Soldiers Once...Any Young."

1965        Nov 17, The NVA ambushed American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out. Some 500 US troops from Landing Zone X-Ray encountered some 500 North Vietnamese troops at L-Z Albany and more soldiers were killed than in the previous 3 days of fighting. Among the wounded was Jack Smith (d.2004), son of TV commentator Howard K. Smith. Jack Smith went on to become an ABC New correspondent.

1965        Nov 17, General Meeting of UN refused admittance of China.

1965        Nov 20, UN Security council called for a boycott of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe).

1965        Nov 24, Congo had a military coup under Gen. Mobutu and Pres. Kasavubu was overthrown. Larry Devlin, US CIA station chief, had encouraged Mobutu to launch the coup.

1965        Nov 26, France launched its first satellite, sending a 92-pound capsule into orbit.

1965        Nov 27, 15-25,000 demonstrated in Wash DC against the war in Vietnam.
  
1965        Nov,  The 1st major American battle of the Vietnam war using armored vehicles was at Ap Bau Bang. The 1st Infantry Division engaged in its first major battle near the village of Ap Bau Bang, along National Route 13--known as "Thunder Road." General William E. DePuy later called it "one of the most gallant stands of the Vietnam War."

1965        Nov, British-born Rick Rescorla served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry when they made their fateful air assault into LZ Albany in the Ia Drang Valley. He features prominently in Hal Moore’s and Joe Gallway’s acclaimed book, "We Were Soldiers Once…And Young." He later helped save thousands of people and died a hero’s death at the World Trade Towers on September 11, 2001. As the security director for a major American corporation, Rescorla was a hero of both attacks on the World Trade Center. On 9-11 he managed to get all but a few of his company’s thousands of employees out of the tower. He was last seen heading back into the building with FDNY rescue crews when it collapsed.

1965        Dec 1, An airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland. 

1965        Dec 4, The United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell aboard.

1965        Dec 11, Sam Cooke (b.1931), pop singer, was shot to death by a motel manager in Los Angeles after a prostitute stole his clothes and money. His hits included “You Send Me,” “Cupid,” and “Chain Gang.”  In 2005 Peter Guralnick authored “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke.”

1965        Dec 15, The U.S. dropped 12 tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong.

1965        Dec 15, Two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each other while in orbit. 
  
1965        Dec 15, In Karachi, Pakistan, a cyclone killed some 10,000 people.
 
1965        Dec 16, Somerset Maugham (91), author, died. His books included “The Moon and Sixpence” (1919), a novel whose main character is based on Paul Gauguin. In 2004 Jeffrey Meyers authored "Somerset Maugham: A Life."

1965        Dec 17, Ending an election campaign marked by bitterness and violence, Ferdinand Marcos was declared president of the Philippines. 
 
1965        Dec 18, U.S. Marines attacked VC units in the Que Son Valley, South Vietnam, during Operation Harvest Moon.
  
1965        Dec 18, The Borman and Lovell splash down in the Atlantic ended a 2 week Gemini VII mission.
  
1965        Dec 19, French president De Gaulle was re-elected. Mitterrand got 45% of the vote.
  
1965        Dec 21, Four pacifists were indicted in New York for burning draft cards.

1965        Dec 24, US troops in Vietnam reached 184,300. Gen. Westmoreland wanted 210,000 by the end of the year.


This is a real TIME MACHINE that takes the reader back 50+ years to 1965 !! Great gift for someone interested in the early history of the US Space Program, the VIETNAM WAR and Civil Rights struggle as viewed from a primary source.

Very good condition. This listing includes the complete run of the newspapers described above. The hard binding covers are present but the front cover is loose. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay USPS mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package. We accept payment by PAYPAL as well as by CREDIT CARD (Visa and Master Card) through secure on-line . We list hundreds of rare newspapers with dates from 1570 through 2004 on Ebay each week and we ship packages twice a week. This is truly SIX CENTURIES OF HISTORY that YOU CAN OWN!

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