Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, June 1, 1967

Vietnam Losses

American casualties in the Vietnam war increased again last week with 243 men killed and 2,616 wounded. It was the highest combined single-week total of the war, topping the previous record total set just a week earlier.

Actor Dies

Claude Rains, perhaps best known as Louis, the lovably corrupt police prefect in “Casablanca,” died yesterday in a hospital at Laconia, N.H. He was 77.

Sports

A.J. Foyt won the Indianapolis 500 this Memorial Day weekend with a time of three hours, 18 minutes and 24 seconds.

This story was originally published May 31, 2017 at 2:39 PM with the headline "Looking Back."