GOP Senator Calls for Troop Withdrawal, NBA Championships Blacked Out in L.A., May 3, 1969

May 3, 1969, Beatles Black Light Clothes Hangers From 'Yellow Submarine'

Let's keep Pepperland neat and tidy!

May 3, 1969, Cover

"The belief that drugs are a bigger problem in the suburbs than the ghetto is just a myth. At a school a kid can get anything he wants in 30 minutes."

At left, a standard Times layout with the index between two "corner stories" at the bottom of the page. Of the nine stories on the cover, four are from the wires and two are "exclusive to The Times from the Washington Post." Only three have staff bylines.

It's interesting that we led with a religion package: Two stories about taxing churches and one on Pope Paul VI implementing changes from Vatican II. Women will no longer have to keep their heads covered in church. 

In other news, relations are strained between the Nixon administration and Republican governors …  Nixon proposes new regulations on mailing pornography … and military recruiters are barred from Occidental College.

May 3, 1969, Vietnam Pullout

May 3, 1969, Black Studies

Above, a familiar name: Leon Panetta, head of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare under Nixon. The agency funds Antioch college despite its black studies program, which bars whites. No whites have ever applied to the program, Panetta says.

May 3, 1969, Yorty vs. Bradley

Mayor Sam Yorty, quoting a Herald Examiner story about Gus Hall, says commies are supporting challenger Tom Bradley.

May 3, 1969, Monterey Pop Festival

Captured on film: Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company singing "Ball and Chain"  at the Monterey Pop Festival.

May 3, 1969, KFWB
 
An odd, cryptic ad for KFWB. I sure don't get it, but maybe I'm just slow.

May 3, 1969, Comics


 

May 3, 1969, Sports The Lakers didn't get much of a reception at three local theaters.

Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Celtics was shown via
closed-circuit television and The Times' Ray Loynd called the
production "bleary, smeary and forever tinged with a pale blue."

"The conclusion is that closed-circuit television has not progressed
in the last 15 years. … Contrast was poor with the Laker players, in
their Forum yellow, racing around like bleached apparitions," Loynd
wrote.

The games were blacked out locally so the only other option was listening to Chick Hearn … who probably sounded crystal clear.

–Keith Thursby

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