Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, August 4, 1966

Evert Apology

Muscogee County Attorney Charles M. Evert today stood before the bench in City Court and read an apology which Judge Oscar D. Smith accepted, thus dismissing a contempt of court charge against Evert. Evert is quoted as saying court officials “dipped their hand in the corporate till.”

Last Stand

Nine U.S. infantrymen who played dead were the only survivors from a stranded lst Air Cavalry division platoon over-run by North Vietnamese in the rain swept jungle of the central Vietnamese plateau. U.S. officers said the infantrymen were found hiding in the thick jungle in the Ia Drang Valley stripped of their weapons, wallets and money but unhurt.

Beatle Ban

Dozens of radio stations through the United States are banning music by Britain’s Beatles because of a statement by one of the mop-topped singers that his group is more popular than Jesus.

This story was originally published August 3, 2016 at 5:48 PM with the headline "Looking Back."