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1968 Robert F. Kennedy assassination
Memorial services were held at Mission San Luis Obispo and in Oceano following the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. Telegram-Tribune photos by Barry MinettJune 5-10 1968A scant two months earlier the...
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Tregeagle goes to San Quentin
July 15, 1971 Death penalty trials are grim stories.Over the last 20 years I have worked at the paper I have covered portions of 3 of the 4 active county death row stories.In 1971 there was a wave of...
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Cockfighting in San Luis Obispo County
October 19, 1966 The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department busted a cockfighting operation in the Nipomo area this week. With assistance from the Humane Society, five men were arrested, their...
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Huey P. Newton at California Men's Colony
November 20, 1968 A little over 40 years ago another tragic traffic stop in Oakland lead the arrival of a notable convict at the California Men’s Colony. Huey P. Newton was convicted of voluntary...
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The Free University’s “Be-In”
April 14, 1969 I don’t like everything my son has on his iPod and I don’t expect him to like everything on mine but we don’t call the police when we disagree about music. In the late 1960’s there was a...
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out – Timothy Leary at Cal Poly
May 23, 1969 The idea had come to Tim in the shower. Marshall McLuhan suggested that he come up with something snappy to say when advocating the use of LSD. In front of 30,000 hippies at San...
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Dennis Duane Webb sentenced to death
Devout Christians and young parents, John Rainwater, 25, and wife Lori, 22, were managing a 14-unit lodge in Atascadero when a parolee from the Utah prison system broke into their home.He had been at...
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Hero dog foils robbery
There is an old joke in the news business that dog bites man, not news. Man bites dog, now you have a story. This story breaks that rule, here is the unbylined story from February 8, 1969, photo by...
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William Jefferson Ford sentenced to death
June 9, 1961 This week San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department marks a solemn anniversary, 48 years ago Deputy Sheriff Harvey Stahl, 40 of Paso Robles died in a struggle with a convict who had shot...
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Bruce Davis, former Manson Family member on path to parole
Former Manson Family member Bruce Davis listens to the decision of a parole board at his 20th parole hearing. Davis was convicted in March 1972. David Middlecamp/The Tribune Three followers of...
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