News stories from Saturday June 12, 1971
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II to the summer of 1968 was traced in a 3,000-page study written at the order of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The massive study shows that four administrations progressively developed a sense of commitment to non-Communist Vietnam.
A team of officials from the Pentagon and other agencies started in June 1967 and worked for over a year on the project. The results are a vast and unusual insight into decision-making in the Vietnam era.
[New York Times] - Resolutions introduced at the opening session of the 38th annual United States Conference of Mayors sharply criticized President Nixon's foreign and domestic policies. The resolutions, focusing on the war in Vietnam, urban renewal, public housing and mass transit, were presented to the more than 200 mayors meeting in Philadelphia in an effort to produce more federal aid. [New York Times]
- A railroad clerk who hijacked a jetliner in Chicago, allegedly killed a passenger and engaged in a shootout with crew members and a United States deputy marshal as the flew to New York was held in $200,000 bail on charges of assault. The man, who reportedly demanded $75,000, a gun and transportation to North Vietnam, was captured and wounded as he traded shots with an agent of the FBI. [New York Times]
- Tricia Nixon, President Nixon's elder daughter, was married to Edward Finch Cox, a member of a family that boasts ancestors among the leaders of the American Revolution. The ceremony, witnessed by 400 guests, was performed by the Rev. Edward G. Latch, chaplain of the House of Representatives, at the White House. [New York Times]
- Statistics from across the country showed that the percentage of women being arrested in connection with most offenses has been rising. The male arrest rate has been climbing much slower. The heaviest increases in the female rate have been in crimes against property, it was found. [New York Times]