News stories from Monday August 13, 1973
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox rebutted President Nixon's argument regarding the White House tapes, and he urged Judge John Sirica to order the President to give up the tapes. Cox charged that Nixon is not above the law. [CBS]
- Federal investigators examined subpoenaed records from Vice President Spiro Agnew's term as Maryland governor. The documents were copied and are to be sent to the U.S. attorney's office. Treasury agents picked up sealed private papers from Agnew's days as Maryland governor. The agents searched the papers for confirmation of kickbacks and bribery involving Agnew and Jerome Wolff. Wolff and Lester Matz, co-owners of a construction company, claim that they gave kickbacks to Agnew in return for contracts. State archivist Dr. Morris Radoff said that sealed private papers such as these have never been unsealed in Maryland's entire history. [CBS]
- The mystery continues over the Nixons' purchase of their San Clemente, California, home. The White House announced earlier in the year that President Nixon's good friend Robert Abplanalp bought up the San Clemente home and the surrounding land through an investment company. In an interview with the Washington Star News, Abplanalp now says that no such investment company exists, White House deputy press secretary Gerald Warren also admitted that there's no investment company. Warren restated the White House's promise to supply what will be the third version of the San Clemente financing story. [CBS]
- President Nixon signed the highway bill which will break open the highway trust fund for the benefit of mass transit.
Los Angeles has no effective mass transit system. Mayor Tom Bradley believes that access to trust fund money will open the door for efficient an transportation system, and he promises a new mass transit system for Los Angeles. An official in New York said that the trust fund isn't large enough even to upgrade the transit system in New York City.
[CBS] - Heavy fighting continued in Cambodia as Communists overran four more towns. Even after the U.S. bombing is halted, cargo and reconnaissance planes will continue flying. If they are fired on, the planes may have armed escorts or there may be military retaliation. Congress would be consulted before any action is taken. [CBS]
- A Spanish jetliner crashed while attempting to land at La Coruna airport; the crash killed all 85 persons aboard. [CBS]
- Police have uncovered more bodies near Houston, Texas, in the worst mass murder in American history; 27 bodies of teenage boys have been recovered. Donald Waldrop, the father of two of the victims, said that his sons were found buried in a shed in Houston three years ago. A clue had been given to police about children being buried alive in a shed, but the police passed the idea off as a hoax. Houston police chief Herman Short defended his department and stated that no pattern of missing persons was discerned at the time the boys disappeared.
Digging continues in Dean Corll's neighborhood. Corll is linked with the rape, torture and murder cases along with his two teenage accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, and David Brooks, 18.
[CBS] - Last September in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, eight people were killed during a robbery attempt. Today a jury sentenced the five who were arrested in the robbery and murder case to life imprisonment. The black Muslim defendants struck the marshals; their lawyer will appeal the case. [CBS]
- Three more murders occurred over the weekend in St. Croix. The governor has urged all persons to remain at home at night. [CBS]
- The deprogramming of religious cultists involves parents, police, and a man named Ted Patrick. Kathy Crampton, 19, of Kelso, Washington, joined a fundamentalist commune, the Church of Armageddon, in Seattle. "Love Israel" (a/k/a Paul Erdman), the head of the group, allows the use of marijuana. Against her will, Kathy was physically abducted by her mother, future brother-in-law Greg Temple, and deprogramming expert Ted Patrick. Patrick accused Erdman of brainwashing; Erdman claims that his group lives by the Bible, and no brainwashing is involved.
CBS was allowed to film the abduction and follow the deprogramming process, with the knowledge of the Seattle police. At a refueling stop, the gas station owner called in a possible kidnapping; Patrick was arrested. Kathy says her name is "Corinth Israel" and her mother is the Universe. She asked to be let out of the car. Kathy was taken to the police station. Patrick was released from jail and the kidnapping charges were dropped. Outside, Kathy was again taken against her will and placed in the car. Patrick stated that parents have right to rescue their child from harm no matter how old the child is.
The Deprogramming of Kathy Crampton, Part II, continues tomorrow on CBS news.
[CBS] - Police in Nantucket, Massachusetts, reported that Joseph Kennedy, the son of Ethel Kennedy, flipped his car and injured six passengers including his brother David. All of the victims were flown to Cape Cod hospital. Kennedy was charged with reckless driving. [CBS]
- White House aide John Ehrlichman has returned to Seattle to live, but the nation's attention is still focused on him. As Ehrlichman returned to his old home in Seattle, reporters massed for a press conference. Ehrlichman said that the Senate Watergate committee is destructive to the Watergate investigation but he doesn't know if the hearings will be destructive to America. Outside the Ehrlichman estate, some protesters gathered. Ehrlichman promised to hold another news conference. [CBS]
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| Date | DJIA | S&P | Volume* |
| August 10, 1973 | 892.38 | 104.77 | 10.87 |
| August 9, 1973 | 910.49 | 105.61 | 12.88 |
| August 8, 1973 | 902.02 | 105.55 | 12.44 |
| August 7, 1973 | 911.95 | 106.55 | 13.51 |
| August 6, 1973 | 912.78 | 106.73 | 12.32 |
| August 3, 1973 | 908.87 | 106.49 | 9.94 |
| August 2, 1973 | 910.14 | 106.67 | 12.08 |
| August 1, 1973 | 912.18 | 106.83 | 13.53 |
| July 31, 1973 | 926.40 | 108.22 | 13.53 |
| July 30, 1973 | 933.77 | 109.25 | 11.17 |