Note: This is an encore post from 2008.
In a confrontation over a divided Berlin, a Soviet official says the government plans to give control to the East Germans by Christmas, and some Soviet troops are reportedly going home. President Eisenhower vows to maintain the occupation of West Berlin. The central issue was whether the U.S., Britain and France would accept East German participation in the organization that controlled the city’s military and commercial air traffic.
 Roy Wesley Raines was born in Alabama in 1906 and died on a Burbank street in 1958, killed by his estranged wife, Mary Katherine, with a .22 rifle after he ignored a warning shot.
They had been in court earlier that day, when Mary sought a restraining That night, Roy went to 250 W. Spazier Ave., where Mary and a 12-year-old son from a previous marriage were living with Thomas Kennedy, described in news accounts as a boarder and a boyfriend. Leaving their 4-year-old asleep in the backseat of his car, Roy rang On Nov. 26, 1958, the coroner’s jury returned with a verdict: justifiable homicide. |
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