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The following events occurred in March 1965:

March 1, 1965 (Monday)

• At 8:12 in the morning, a natural gas explosion at the La Salle Heights Apartments in La Salle, Quebec killed 28 people. Eighteen of the apartment units in the three story building at Bergevin and Jean Milot Streets were destroyed, and most of the dead were children.^[1][2][3]
• Bruce McLaren won the 100-mile 1965 Australian Grand Prix, held at the Longford Circuit at Launceston, Tasmania, but the race was marred by a crash that killed driver Rocky Tresise and a cameraman, Robin Babera.^[4][5]
• The first general election in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to feature universal suffrage took place throughout the former British colony and African protectorate. The Bechuanaland Democratic Party won 28 of the 31 seats in the new parliament, and the BDP leader, Sir Seretse Khama, became the first Prime Minister.^[6] Bechuanaland would be granted independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 as Botswana.^[7] Khama, who had been destined to become the Chief Khama IV of the Bamangwato tribe, had been ostracized for his interracial marriage to a white British woman, Ruth Williams, and exiled from his homeland until 1956, then returned to even greater popularity.^[8]
• Olympic swimming champion and 1964 Australian of the Year Dawn Fraser was banned from competition for ten years by the Australian Amateur Swimming Union, in apparent disapproval of her partying lifestyle and for her behavior during the 1964 Summer Olympic games.^[9]
• East African members of the British Commonwealth began negotiations with the "Common Market" (European Economic Community) .^[10]
• The U.S. made its first underground silo launch of the new Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile. The test took place at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City, South Dakota.^[11]
• The U.S. Supreme Court rendered its opinion in Freedman v. Maryland, unanimously striking down a Maryland censorship law that had given the state censor the authority to ban the showing of a film and putting the burden on the film exhibitor to file a lawsuit in order to appeal. Under the new rule, it would become the burden of the censor to prove that a film content was not protected by the U.S. Constitution, and the censor would now have the burden of filing for an injunction against the showing of a film. The guidelines of the ruling would apply to all state censorship laws.^[12]

March 2, 1965 (Tuesday)

• Operation Rolling Thunder, the daily bombing of North Vietnam by the United States, began as the 8th and the 13th Bomber Squadrons set off from the Biên Hòa Airfield with eight B-57 Canberra bombers and the protection of F-100 Super Sabres.^{[13][14][15][16]}
• The first raid was on an ammunition dump at Xom Bong, 35 miles north of the De-Militarized Zone, and did serious damage, but at the cost of three F-105 and two F-100 fighters, and the capture of the one surviving pilot of the five; a historian would later note, "America was shocked that its large, high-tech, expensive air force, in combat for the first time since the Korean War, had been humbled by a third world country, a communist one at that." ^[17] The operation, would have 700,000 sorties until its halt on October 31, 1968, without bringing any visible end to the Vietnam War. "Rolling Thunder's ultimate failure came as a result of an inappropriate strategy that dictated a conventional air war against North Vietnam to affect what was basically and unconventional war in South Vietnam." ^[18]
• The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, premièred at the Rivoli Theater in New York City in advance of its nationwide release of March 10.^[19]
• An avalanche in the Austrian Alps killed 14 college students from Sweden. The students were passengers on a bus that was taking them to the ski resort at Obertauern, and were on the Radstadt Tauern road, and died after falling rocks swept the vehicle down into a valley 150 feet below.^[20]
• The U.S. space program suffered a setback when a $12,000,000 Atlas-Centaur rocket exploded during an attempted unmanned launch. The rocket "rose about three feet from its pad, lost power from two of its three engines, crashed back to the ground and erupted into a brilliant orange ball of fire".^[21]
• Four men in Philadelphia were driving past the Fidelity Philadelphia Trust Company bank when they spotted a bag that had been accidentally dropped by a Brink's armored car, and picked up what turned out to be $40,000 in cash (worth more than $300,000 fifty years later). They were arrested four days later after one of the group used some of his new found wealth to buy a 1963 Cadillac automobile.^[22]

March 3, 1965 (Wednesday)

• The U.S. House of Representatives voted 257-165 to approve the Appalachian Regional Development Act, the first of the War on Poverty bills, a month after the U.S. Senate had given 62-22 approval. President Lyndon Johnson would sign the one-billion dollar measure, which provided $1,092,200,000 toward highway construction and other projects, on March 9.^[23]
• Congress voted to repeal a requirement that one-fourth of bank deposit liabilities of the Federal Reserve System had to be matched by an equivalent amount of gold. The rule had been in effect for 52 years since the passage of the original Federal Reserve Act in 1913. President Johnson signed the bill into the law the next day.^[24] The requirement of gold backing for one-fourth of bank notes on deposit in the 12 Federal Reserve System would continue until March 18, 1968.^[25]
• Wilbur Mills, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, "pulled a 'legislative coup' that would forever change the nation's health care system" with the surprise recommendation that all three of the alternative proposals for health care should be combined. The result would be that the Social Security Amendments of 1965 would have the Democrats' King-Anderson Bill as "Medicare Part A", the Republicans' "Bettercare" bill would become "Medicare Part B", and the "Eldercare" bill would become Medicaid.^[26]
• The bombing raids by the United States against North Vietnam were not a "war", according to a U.S. State Department release. The bombing "does not bring about the existence of a state of war, which is a legal characterization rather than an actual description," a spokesman wrote. Instead, there was "armed aggression from the north against the Republic of Viet Nam" and "Pursuant to South Viet Nam's request and consultations between our two governments, the Republic of Viet Nam and the United States are engaged in collective defense against that armed aggression.^[27]
• Lincoln City, Oregon was created by the merger of five towns (Cutler City, Delake, Nelscott, Oceanlake and Taft). The name, suggested by a group of schoolchildren, was selected in a contest.^[28]
• Born: Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer and football manager, in Radnicki Nis, Yugoslavia
• Died: Renato Biasutti, 76, Italian geographer and physical anthropologist who wrote The Races and People of the World, classifying homo sapiens into "five subspecies, sixteen primary races, and fifty-two secondary races".^[29]

March 4, 1965 (Thursday)

• The government of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson survived a censure motion in the House of Commons by a margin of only five votes, with 293 in favor of the condemnation of his national defense policy, and 298 against.^[30]
• An angry mob assembled at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to protest the bombing of North Vietnam, before finally being driven away by police on horseback and soldiers.^[31][32] The next day, the Soviet Union formally apologized to the U.S. government and began replacement of 310 broken windows in the ten-story high embassy building, and the removal of stains from more than 200 inkpots that had been shattered against the walls.^[33]
• At 6:04 a.m., a neighborhood in Natchitoches, Louisiana, was destroyed and 17 people were killed by the explosion of a natural gas pipeline. The blast left a 15 foot deep crater where seven homes had stood.^[34][35] The disaster was later traced to high pressure had ruptured the pipe; an area of 13.8 acres of land was incinerated, and pieces of metal weighing hundreds of pounds were hurled as far as 351 feet by the explosion.^[36]
• The U.S. formally requested New Zealand to participate in the Vietnam War. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake did not respond initially, and a second request would be sent eight days later.^[37]
• Born: Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist, in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Died: Willard Motley, 55, African-American novelist and author of Knock on Any Door, later adapted to film by Nicholas Ray

March 5, 1965 (Friday)

• The Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) announced that it was laying off of hundreds of Bahraini workers, an event that triggered what is now referred to as the March Intifada. On March 9, the rest of the Bahraini employees of BAPCO went out on strike, and were joined by student protesters who soon took out their frustrations on cars owned by Europeans in the British protectorate on the Arabian peninsula.^[38][39]
• After stripping Muhammad Ali of his World Boxing Association heavyweight title, the WBA staged a bout in Chicago for a new "world champion" to replace Ali.^[40] Ernie Terrell defeated Eddie Machen in a unanimous decision by the fight judges.^[41] "To the man in the street, Ali may have been a Black Muslim... he may have come across as a brash young pain-in-the-ass. He may have been all these of these things," and author would later note, "but until he lost, retired or died, he was the champion. Consequently, when Terrell outpointed Machen, few cared." ^[42]
• Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck performed his first major concert, after being hired by The Yardbirds to replace Eric Clapton. Beck's introduction came at Fairfield Halls in Croydon.^[43]
• The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted at 9:43 a.m., through a series of fissures that extended for nearly eight miles from the Makaaopuhi Crater to the Napau Crater. Within the first eight hours, 15 million cubic meters of lava would pour out of the ground.^[44]
• ONGC Videsh Limited, India's entry into the field of international oil exploration, was incorporated as Hydrocarbons India Ltd. Within 50 years, it would be participating in 39 projects in 15 nations.^[45]
• Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, was named an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, less than two months before his death.^[46]
• Died: Chen Cheng, 68, Chinese political and military leader;^[47] and Helen Waddell, 75, Irish poet and playwright

March 6, 1965 (Saturday)

• Indonesia hosted the first Africa-Asia Islamic Conference (KIAA, Konferensi Islam Afrika-Asia) with 107 delegates from 33 nations traveling to Bandung.^[48]
• Red Army General Nikolai F. Vatutin, leader of the Ukrainian Front, was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union, 21 years after his death.^[49]
• Fayzulla Khodzhayev, who had served as the leader of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic until his arrest in 1937 on orders of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, was rehabilitated posthumously by the Soviet government, almost 27 years after he had been among the persons executed after the "Trial of the Trotskyite and Rightist Bloc of 21").^[50]
• Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba broke with the leaders of the rest of the Arab nations in North Africa and the Middle East, and called for the recognition of Israel, within the borders that had been set by the United Nations, in 1947, for separate Jewish and Arab states, though "all it earned him was a violent campaign of hate and vilification".^[51]
• Chinese students protested at Soviet Embassy in Beijing, criticizing the U.S.S.R.'s use of force in breaking up the March 4 demonstration in Moscow.^[31][52]
• Died: Herbert Morrison, 77, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945-1951); and Margaret Dumont, 82, American film actress best-known as the foil for Groucho Marx

March 7, 1965 (Sunday)

• Changes to the Liturgy of the Roman Catholic Mass took place throughout the world,^[53] with large parts of the Mass being said in local languages (the vernacular) for the first time, rather than in Latin, as the papal instruction Inter oecumenici became effective on the first Sunday of Lent following the 1964 reform.^[54][55] In Rome, Pope Paul VI conducted services in Italian at the small All Saints Church as part of a plan to substitute for the parish priest in five suburban Rome churches during the Lent season.^[56]
• A march of 550 civil rights demonstrators was broken up violently by 200 members of the Alabama Highway Patrol, as the protesters began their march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital at Montgomery. In response to the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, Hosea Williams and John Lewis started from the Brown Capel AME Church and proceeded over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on U.S. Route 80 with a petition for Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. Reverend Frederick D. Reese would recall later that the officer in charge of the troopers told them, "I have orders from the Governor. You cannot march down Highway 80. This is for your protection." When the marchers began kneeling in prayer rather than turning back, "the troopers came forward and began beating the people with billy clubs" ^[57] then dispersed the crowd with tear gas. When the marchers moved back across the bridge into Dallas County, members of the county sheriff's department began beating the group again.^[58][59][60] The event would be commemorated in the American civil rights movement as "Bloody Sunday".
• Died: Queen Louise, 75, consort of Sweden and wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Born Louise Mountbatten and a great-grandaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, Louise was beloved by her subjects as "vår drottning" ("our queen") "because she shopped in Stockholm's stores and markets just like any housewife".^[61]

March 8, 1965 (Monday)

• At 9:02 a.m. local time, the first American military combat troops arrived in South Vietnam as 1,400 members of the United States Marines in combat gear came ashore at Da Nang Bay.^[62] The men of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade were the first of 3,500 troops from the 3rd Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division. Two battalions, relocated from Okinawa to guard the American air base at Da Nang, were delivered by the amphibious force ships Mount McKinley, Vancouver, Henrico and Union.^[63] Although there were 23,000 American military personnel in South Vietnam already, the deployment represented "the first body of Americans to go to the embattled southeast Asian nation as a fighting military unit." ^[64]
• The U.S. Supreme Court's ruled in United States v. Seeger expanded the allowable grounds for conscientious objection to being drafted.^[65] *The Court also invalidated, in Louisiana v. United States, the "interpretation test" clause of the Louisiana state constitution, which provided that a voter had to interpret a random section of either the state or federal constitution "to the satisfaction of the registrar". As Justice Hugo Black noted in the unanimous opinion, less than one percent of African-Americans were registered to vote between 1921 and 1944, and the only 15% were registered at the time the suit was filed. "This is not a test, but a trap," Black wrote, "sufficient to stop even the most brilliant man on his way to the voting booth... The cherished right of people in a country like ours to vote cannot be obliterated by... the passing whim or impulse of a voting registrar." ^[66]
• Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling published their groundbreaking paper, "Molecules as Documents of Evolutionary History", in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, applying their 1962 theory of the "molecular clock" to a proof "that genes can be used to determine when different organisms evolutionarily diverge", by comparing molecules of different species to estimate when divergence took place.^[67][68]

March 9, 1965 (Tuesday)

• The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., were stopped by state police at the bridge that had been the scene of violence two days earlier. Obeying a court restraining order, the group halted, and King asked State Police Major John Cloud (who said "This march is not conducive to the safety of those using the highways") whether he objected to a prayer being led by religious leaders who were present. "You can have your prayer, and then return to the church," Cloud said. After being led in prayer by Ralph Abernathy, King led the group back and vowed to march again.^[69] Later in the day, white supremacists fractured the skull of a young white Unitarian Universalist minister, Reverend James J. Reeb later that day in Selma. Three men were arrested by Selma city police for the armed assault, released on bail, and immediately re-arrested by the FBI for charges of violating Reeb's civil rights.^[70][71][72]
• President Johnson authorized the use of a newer, more flammable version of napalm B for the anti-personnel bombs dropped by American bombers in Vietnam.^[73]
• British and South African police detectives in Durban, South Africa, recovered 20 gold bars, valued at $280,000 and that had been missing from the ocean liner Capetown Castle for more than a month. The bars, shipped by the South African government for entrusting to the Bank of England, had been reported vanished on February 5 when the ship had docked at Southampton.^[74] The value was based on the international price of gold at the time of 35 dollars per troy ounce and the weight (400 oz t or 12.4 kg) of each bar. Fifty years later, in March 2015, the price of gold was $1,226.14 per ounce, a gold bar would be worth $490,456 and twenty bars would be worth more than 9.8 million dollars.
• OSCAR 3, the third in the Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio series, and the first to have a transponder to allow amateur radio operators to communicate with each other, was launched by the United States. Over the next two weeks, "more than 100 amateurs in 16 countries" were able to talk to each other until the satellite's batteries ceased working.^[75]
• Died: Kazys Boruta, 60, Soviet Lithuanian poet

March 10, 1965 (Wednesday)

• The Odd Couple, a play by Neil Simon, debuted on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre, with Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Ungar. Simon would say later that he based the characters on a situation involving his meticulously tidy older brother, writer Danny Simon, who had had to share an apartment with a disheveled theatrical agent and friend, Roy Gerber, following a divorce.^[76] The characters of Oscar and Felix would be reimagined in many versions over the next half a century, including two films (with Matthau and Jack Lemmon); a 1970s television show (Jack Klugman and Tony Randall); and, more recently, a 2015 TV sitcom with Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon.
• The first drawings were held under Australia's new birthday lottery system of conscription.^[77] At the Department of Labor and National Service in Melbourne, Representative Dan Mackinnon drew marbles from a barrel as part of the "birthday ballot" until there were sufficient eligible men to meet the quota of 4,200 draftees. The results were kept secret, with a policy that "Although pressmen will be able to watch and photograph the drawing of the first marble they will not e allowed to see or photograph the number on it." Young men whose birthdays were selected were "balloted out" and would be notified within four weeks.^[78]
• Goldie, a London Zoo golden eagle, was recaptured 12 days after her escape.^[79]
• The United Kingdom and Norway signed an agreement on the maritime boundary between the two nations on the North Sea. Rather than the former line based on the Norwegian trench, the British and Norwegian governments agreed that the median line of points equidistant from both mainland coasts would serve as the boundary.^[80]
• Robert Komer, President Johnson's adviser on the Middle East, met with Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in Tel Aviv, seeking to get the Israelis to agree to bring their nuclear program under the jurisdiction of the International Atomic Energy Agency. However, the only concession that Eshkol would agree to in the "Memorandum of Understanding" signed between the two nations was a reaffirmation that "Israel will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Arab-Israeli area." ^[81]
• In France, the cabinet of President Charles de Gaulle approved a bill to remove many of the restrictions placed on married women, in what Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte described as "a veritable emancipation of the wife". The new bill, drafted by Justice Minister Jean Foyer, was expected to be passed by the French parliament. At the time, married women were not allowed to take a job, open a bank account, or spend their own earnings without their husband's consent.^[82]
• The engagement was announced between Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven, who would become the first commoner and the first Dutchman to marry into the Dutch Royal Family.
• Died: Daisy Lampkin, 81, African-American suffragette and civil rights activist; and José "El Piloto" Castro Veiga, 50, Galician guerrilla and terrorist (executed)

March 11, 1965 (Thursday)

• Ireland's Prime Minister Sean Lemass dissolved the Dáil Éireann, the nation's lower house of parliament and called for new elections, after his Fianna Fáil party lost one seat in a by-election and another to the death of the incumbent.^[83] New elections would take place on April 7.^[84]
• Operation Market Time, the U.S. Navy complement to the aerial bombing in Operation Rolling Thunder, began off of the coast of North and South Vietnam with patrols along the coast, and 40 and 150 miles offcoast, in order to disrupt North Vietnam's supply lines to the Viet Cong in the south. Unlike the strikes against inland supply lines, the naval operation "proved to be very successful" and cut off the sea supply routes during the war.^[85] The first attacks would take place on March 15, as fighter-bombers took off from the aircraft carriers USS Ranger and USS Hancock to bomb an ammunition dump at Phu Qui.^[86]
• The first sit-in at the White House was done by 12 young men and women who were staging a civil rights protest. The group arrived at the U.S. presidential residence as part of a tour group but, once inside the central corridor, dropped to the floor, demanded to meet President Johnson, and refused orders to leave. Three went home voluntarily, but the others stayed for 7 hours until they were forcibly removed under police escort.^[87]
• The city of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota (with a current population of about 34,000) was created by the merger of Inver Grove and Inver Grove Township.^[88]
• Born: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British designer and television presenter, in Kensington, London; and Jesse Jackson, Jr., African-American Congressman for Illinois, in Greenville, South Carolina
• Died: James Reeb, 38, white Unitarian Universalist minister, two days after receiving severe head injuries received in a beating by white supremacists in Selma, Alabama.^[89][90]

March 12, 1965 (Friday)

• A longshoreman named Teddy Deegan was found murdered in Chelsea, Massachusetts. It would be noted later that the murder "would not even qualify as a footnote in Boston mob annals except for one crucial outcome; four men were wrongly imprisoned for decades for his murder, and the case became a cause célèbre and a lesson in the miscarriage of justice." ^[91] In 1967, Joe Barboza would confess to the murder, but would also accuse Joe Salvati, Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco and Henry Tameleo of being his accomplices. The four men would be sentenced to life in prison, where Tameleo and Greco would die of old age; Salvati and Limone would spend 30 years behind bars before an enterprising investigative reporter, Dan Rea, would find the evidence that led to their release in 1997.
• The third Test of New Zealand's 1964-65 cricket tour of India opened at the Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.^[92]

March 13, 1965 (Saturday)

• Thailand and Malaysia signed an agreement at Songkhla, a town on Thai side of the border of the two nations, to combine operations against guerrilla and terrorist incursions.^[93]
• A week after a White House meeting with Martin Luther King, President Johnson met with Alabama Governor George Wallace to discuss the recent events in Selma, and to seek Wallace's support for federal efforts toward African-American voting rights and the right of peaceful assembly for all races. After the meeting, Johnson and Wallace appeared at a press conference, and said, "This March week has brought a very deep and painful challenge to the unending search for American freedom... before it is ended, every resource of this government will be directed to insuring justice for all men of all races in Alabama and everywhere in this land." He described the recent Bloody Sunday in Selma as "an American tragedy". Wallace told the press that he would consider Johnson's recommendations and that he recognized the right of peaceful assembly, "but there are limitations." ^[94][95]
• Three weeks after the assassination of Malcolm X, his former bodyguard and potential successor, Leon 4X Ameer, was found dead in his room at the Sherry-Biltmore Hotel in Boston.^[96] However, a Boston medical examiner concluded that Ameer, 31, had a history of epilepsy, had "died in a coma while peacefully in bed", and police found "no signs of a struggle and no visible marks of violence on the body".^[97]

March 14, 1965 (Sunday)

• Israel and West Germany established diplomatic relations, one week after an announcement made by German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and nearly twenty years after the fall defeat of Nazi Germany.^[98][99] The next day, the Foreign Ministers of 13 Arab nations, already meeting in Cairo, announced that they would sever relations with the West Germans, and ordered the immediate recall of their ambassadors from Bonn.^[100] Four nations (Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia) later declined to break with West Germany,^[51] while six others (Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, Kuwait and the Sudan) announced that they planned to establish stronger relations with East Germany.^[101]
• Che Guevara returned to Cuba after a three month tour of the world, and found himself in disfavor with the government. Behind closed doors, "Every one of Che's possible political 'offences' were brought up; his flirtation with Beijing, his digs at the economic systems of the 'fraternal' socialit countries, his polemics against Cuba's Communist old guard and his personal criticism of Castro. Above all, though, there was the withering attack he had made on the Soviet Union in Algeria in February 1965." ^[102] Guevara would soon resign his government position and even renounce his citizenship, then travel elsewhere in the world to forment revolution.
• The first round of municipal elections was held for all the cities in France, with almost 950,000 candidates for 470,000 offices. Runoff elections would be held a week later for any office where a candidate had not received a majority, with the top two vote-getters being on the ballot for the second round.^[103][104]
• Former Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev appeared in public for the first time since he had been fired from his positions as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Prime Minister five months earlier. Khrushchev and his wife, Nina, were casting their votes in Moscow's city elections and arrived at the Moscow University Club, where he was applauded by "a cluster of citizens", who let him come to the head of the line. The election monitor who greeted him handed him a ballot without asking him to show his internal passport, and Khrushchev joked, "How come you're trusting me and letting me vote without identification? You used to be stricter in the past." ^[105]
• Born: Kevin Williamson, American TV producer known for creating The Vampire Diaries and Dawson's Creek; in New Bern, North Carolina
• Died: Stanko Premrl, 84, Slovenian Roman Catholic priest and composer of the Slovenian national anthem, the Zdravljica

March 15, 1965 (Monday)

• President Johnson spoke to a joint session of Congress and a nationwide television audience to call for federal legislation that would become the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The speech would be remembered for his repeated reference to an African-American song, "We Shall Overcome". "Experience has clearly shown that the existing process of law cannot overcome systematic and ingenious discrimination," Johnson said. "No law that we now have on the books—and I have helped to put three of them there—can ensure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.... What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and State of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome." ^[106][107] The bill would be introduced in the Senate on March 17, pass the House, with amendments, on August 3 by a 328-74 vote, and by 79-18 the next day in the Senate, and would be signed into law on August 6, 1965.
• Queen Elizabeth II ended the ostracism of the Duchess of Windsor, the former Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, 28 years after her uncle, formerly King Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne in order to marry the divorced American. The decision was occasioned by Edward's illness and surgery, and the meeting took place at his bedside at The London Clinic.^[108] "When the 68-year-old duchess curtsied to the queen," UPI would report, "it ended the bitterness in the royal family over the duke's marriage..." ^[109]
• South Africa announced a tougher policy of strict racial segregation of the races in sporting events, going beyond the existing rule of separate sections for white and non-white (black and coloured) spectators. Under the new regulations, non-whites were barred from even attending events at venues in predominantly white districts, and whites could not venture into non-white events. Michiel De Wet Nel, the Minister of African Administration, and Pieter Botha, the Minister of Community Development announced the new policy. On the average, 25 percent of the spectators at soccer games had been non-white.^[110][111]
• Frank Bossard, a member of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service who had selling information to the Soviet Union for four years about British military radar and guidance systems, was arrested by Special Branch agents at the Ivanhoe Hotel in Bloomsbury. A Soviet defector, code-named "Top Hat", had alerted British intelligence of Bossard's activities, and when he made reservations for the Ivanhoe on March 12, agents trailed him from the Ministry of Aviation to the hotel. When he emerged from his room after a little more than an hour, two officers searched him and found four classified file folders, photography equipment, and exposed rolls of 35 millimeter film. On May 10, he would be sentenced to 21 years in prison.^[112]
• Gamal Abdel Nasser was re-elected to another term as President of the United Arab Republic (formerly Egypt) and, once again, without opposition in a yes or no vote.^[113] The government would report that 6,950,652 out of 6,951,196 voters approved Nasser and that only 65 voted against him. The other 479 ballots were declared void.^[114]

March 16, 1965 (Tuesday)

• Following the example of Buddhist monks who had performed self-immolation, 82-year old Alice Herz stood at the corner of Grand River Avenue and Oakman Boulevard in Detroit, doused herself with two cans of flammable cleaning fluid, then set herself ablaze.^[115][116] Though she was not "Holocaust survivor" as reported in some accounts, Mrs. Herz had fled Germany in 1933 after the Nazis took power, and left France in 1940 after the German invasion, and she did stay temporarily in an internment camp for refugees before emigrating to the United States in 1942. She left a note that said, "I choose the illuminating death of a Buddhist to protest against a great country trying to wipe out a small country for no reason." ^[117] Two bystanders smothered the flames, but Mrs. Herz died of her burns 10 days later.^[118]
• Mounted deputies of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office violently broke up a civil rights demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama, due to an order given by Circuit Solicitor David Crosland, who apologized later for a "mixup in signals".^[119] Riding on horseback and swinging clubs and canes, officers rode into a crowd of about 600 marchers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; 14 people were injured, and eight of them were hospitalized. A second march of 1,200 people, made after the organizers obtained a parade permit, took place without incident.^[120]

March 17, 1965 (Wednesday)

• Frank M. Johnson, Jr., the federal judge for a U.S. District Court in Montgomery, ruled in favor of the right of civil rights protesters to march along U.S. Highway 60 from Selma to Montgomery, and issued an injunction barring Alabama state and county authorities from interfering with the march, and ordered law enforcement agencies (that had recently attacked previous demonstrators) to protect the marchers.^[121]
• Tanks from the Israeli Defense Force crossed into Syria in the first of four raids to destroy heavy mechanical equipment to be used in diversion of the Jordan River.^[122]
• Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 had become the first African-American Major League Baseball player in modern times, was hired by the ABC television network as the first national broadcaster for baseball games. Robinson and Leo Durocher, who was in temporary retirement from managing a team, would handle the commentary on 27 games.^[123]
• Died: Amos Alonzo Stagg, 102, American college football coach from 1892 to 1932 for the University of Chicago and, after being forced to retire at age 70, for the College of the Pacific from 1933 to 1946.^[124]

March 18, 1965 (Thursday)

• Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, left the airlock on his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and 9 seconds,^[125] becoming the first person to "walk in space". The Voshkod ship was launched into orbit at 1:00 p.m. from Baikonur (10:00 a.m. in Moscow and 3:00 a.m. in Washington), and 90 minutes later, on the second orbit, as the ship was passing over the Soviet Union ^[126] Leonov exited the two man capsule while 307.5 miles above the Earth, the highest man had ever been into space at that time. Lieutenant Colonel Leonov, secured by a five-meter long tether and equipped with oxygen, spent 12 minutes floating free during his time outside,^[127] while his crewmate, Colonel Pavel Belyayev remained at the controls.^[128][129] When he tried to re-enter the safety of the Voshkod airlock, he found that he couldn't bend enough to get through the narrow opening, as a result of the greater stiffness of the pressurized suit, rather than a "ballooning", since the dimensions remained the same in both a vacuum and normal conditions.^[126] After a struggle that sent his pulse rate to 168 and consumed most of his remaining oxygen supply, Leonov reduced the pressure from 400 hPa to 270 and "with the urgent desperation of a doomed man, delbowed and fought his way back in to the safety of the airlock." ^[125]
• Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones were cited by police after publicly urinating on the wall of a garage in Stratford, London, following an argument with an attendant who refused to let them use the bathroom because of their long hair. On July 22, the three would be fined five pounds apiece and 15 guineas court costs for "insulting behaviour".^[130] The senior court magistrate in West Ham, A.C. Morey, would admonish them "Just because you have reached extreme heights in your profession, this does not mean you have the right to act like this. You should set a standard of behaviour, a moral pattern for all your very large number of supporters." ^[131][132]
• The Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States, also known as "The Washington Convention", was opened for signature in Washington, D.C.; it would take effect on October 14, 1966, after 20 nations had ratified it, and it created the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The Convention provided a neutral investment arbitration mechanism to resolve disputes between signing nations and foreign investors.^[133]
• A general election began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with balloting to continue through April 3. The Congolese National Convention party, led by Moise Tshombe, won a plurality of 38 of the 167 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
• Died: King Farouk I of Egypt, who had been dethroned and sent into exile in 1952 when his nation became a republic, collapsed from a heart attack at the age of 45 during dinner in Rome.^[134] Farouk, who weighed 285 pounds and had lived the playboy life on a vast personal fortune estimated at 250 million dollars, was dining at the Ile de France restaurant with an unidentified female companion when he "collapsed face down into the remains of a meal of oysters, roast lamb, pastry and fruit".^[135][136]

March 19, 1965 (Friday)

• The wreck of the SS Georgiana, which sank on March 19, 1863, was discovered in 1965 by E. Lee Spence,^[137] and may or may not have been found on March 19. In 2008, an unidentified editor to Wikipedia would add the statement that "Spence found the wreck exactly 102 years after the 'Georgiana's' loss" and the newspapers began repeating the phrase from Wikipedia for the syndicated "Today in History" column,^[138] although there is no indication that Spence himself made any claim that his 1965 discovery came on an anniversary of any sort.^[139]
• Indonesian President Sukarno announced the nationalization of foreign oil companies Stanvac, Caltex, and Royal Dutch Shell.^[140]
• A team led by American biologist Robert W. Holley published the paper "Structure of a Ribonucleic Acid" in the weekly journal Science, first describing the structure of transfer RNA (tRNA), the molecule that "reads" the genetic code encoded by DNA to bring together the correct sequence of amino acids in cellular proteins. Holley would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his discovery.^[67]
• Cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov returned to Earth in the Voshkod 2 capsule, the day after its launch.^[141] The capsule was "enveloped in flames" caused by the friction during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, but was able to successfully deploy its chutes and made a landing near Perm, more than 800 miles away from the usual landing site for Soviet missions.^[142]
• Died: Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej, 63, President of Romania and General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, died at 5:43 p.m. in Bucharest from complications of lung cancer and liver cancer that had not been detected by his doctors despite a thorough physical examination less than a year earlier, and the Romanian people were not notified of his illness until the day before he died.^[143][144] Nicolae Ceaușescu would become the new General Secretary and de facto leader, while Chivu Stoica would be selected as the new President the following week.

March 20, 1965 (Saturday)

• After hearing from General Harold K. Johnson, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff, that it would take five years of fighting and 500,000 American troops to win the Vietnam War,^[145] the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended to Secretary McNamara to change the American mission from being "not simply to withstand the Viet Cong... but to gain effective operational superiortiy and assume the offensive", and that two additional divisions of combat troops be transferred to South Vietnam for that purpose. "To turn the tide of war," the memo said, "requires an objective of destroying the Viet Cong, not merely to keep pace with them, or slow their rate of advance." ^[146]
• At 1:30 in the morning, President Johnson issued an Executive Order from the LBJ Ranch in Texas, federalizing the Alabama National Guard and authorizing Secretary of Defense McNamara to send U.S. Army troops to protect civil rights marchers between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.^[147] The move came hours after Alabama's Governor Wallace sent Johnson a telegram saying that he was "willing to do whatever is necessary to maintain peace and order", but that he concurred with the state legislature, which had voted against paying the $12 per day wages for each state guard member, that the state was "financially unable to bear this burden." ^[148]
• President Johnson approved an expansion of Operation Rolling Thunder, to escalate bombing of the "Ho Chi Minh trail" that was the supply line for the Viet Cong.^[149]
• Poupée de cire, poupée de son, sung by France Gall (music and lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg) won the Eurovision Song Contest 1965 for Luxembourg. This is considered to have been the first pop song to win the Eurovision contest.

March 21, 1965 (Sunday)

• The third march from Selma to Montgomery began at 12:48 in the afternoon, as Martin Luther King, Jr. led "from 5,000 to 10,000" marchers from outside the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church at 410 Sylvan Street, out of town, and to the other side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, further than the first two marches were able to get. Protected from white counterdemonstrators by regular army troops and federalized Alabama guardsmen, the group proceeded east along U.S. Highway 80 for eight miles before stopping for the night. All but 300 of the group got on to a chartered train to return to Selma until the next morning. The ones who remained stayed in large tents set up by organizers on the side of the highway. ^[150]
• NASA launched Ranger 9, last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes to scout for potential landing sites for manned missions. ^[151]
• The second round of municipal elections, for those races where no candidate in the first round had attained a majority, was held in France. Candidates of the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, or PCF) gained a majority in the city councils of Le Havre, Nîmes, and seven other cities, giving the PCF the lead in "34 out of the 159 towns with population of 30,000 or more". ^[152]
• Homemade time bombs were found in five locations in African-American neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama. The first was located inside a black Roman Catholic church, wired to 30 sticks of dynamite. Others were located at a lawyer's house, a funeral parlor, outside of a high school, and in a home that had once been occupied by the brother of Martin Luther King, Jr.; the bombs were all disarmed by demolition experts from the U.S. Army base at Fort McClellan. ^[153]

March 22, 1965 (Monday)

• Nicolae Ceauşescu was unanimously elected the new First Secretary by the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and the nation's de facto leader, three days after the death of Gheorghe Gheorgiu-dej. ^[154]
• In Ceylon's parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, her Sri Lanka Freedom Party, and the Sinhalese ethnic majority suffered a landslide defeat, losing 34 of their 75 seats in the 151-member House of Representatives. The United National Party, led by Dudley Senanayake and supported by the nation's minority, the Tamils, more than doubled its share of seats, from 30 to 66, and combined forces with the 14 seats another Tamil group, the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), to obtain a majority in the House. ^{[155] [156]}
• In Morocco, a declaration by King Hassan II, requiring students to be at least 17 years old to enroll in advanced high school classes, triggered several mass protests, which were violently repressed.^{[157] [158]}

March 23, 1965 (Tuesday)

• The United States launched Gemini 3, the nation's first space mission with two astronauts, and the first maneuverable spacecraft from any nation, from Cape Kennedy at 9:24 a.m. Carrying Gus Grissom and John Young, the Gemini capsule (named for Molly Brown) made three orbits around the Earth. During the flight, Grissom altered the orbit, rotating it 180 degrees on its horizontal axis (yaw) "so the crew faced backward", then aligned it with the horizon so that it was "flying sideways", before slightly changing the direction of its orbit. At 1:45, the capsule was brought in for a landing as it passed over Hawaii, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean 33 minutes later at 2:18 p.m. However, the capsule landed fifty miles away from the USS Intrepid, and the crew had to remain afloat until a helicopter could pick them up. ^[159]
• Died: Mae Murray, 79, American film star of the 1920s. At her height in 1926, she had amassed a fortune of about three million dollars (equivalent to more than $40 million in 2016), before breaking her contract with MGM Studios, but was broke ten years later. Her final years were spent at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a retirement community supported by contributions from people in the film and television industry. ^[160]

March 24, 1965 (Wednesday)

• U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy became the first person to reach the top of the 13,900 foot tall Mount Kennedy in the Saint Elias Mountains of Canada, located in the Yukon territory. Kennedy was part of an eight man team sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the Boston Museum of Science, seven of whom were experienced mountain climbers, including Jim Whittaker, the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and Dee Molenaar. After the peak, never climbed, was named in honor of the late John F. Kennedy in 1964, his brother Robert was invited to be part of the expedition. The other experts stopped a few feet below the summit to let the Senator plant flags and place a memento at the top. ^[161]
• Ranger 9 impacted into the Alphonsus crater on the Moon, after taking high resolution photos and transmitting them to Earth. For the first time, viewers were able to watch lunar photos on live television as they were being received. ^[162]
• A "teach-in" on the Vietnam War took place at the University of Michigan.
• Born: "The Undertaker" (stage name for Mark William Calaway), American professional wrestler, in Houston

March 25, 1965 (Thursday)

• West Germany's Bundestag voted, 344-96, to extend the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes, set to expire on May 8, 1965, the 20th anniversary of Germany's surrender, for an additional five years up to 1970, and Justice Minister Ewald Bucher resigned the same day, on grounds that the change violated Germany's Constitution.^[163] In 1969, the deadline for indicting a war criminal would be extended to 1980, and in 1979, the limitation on prosecution for murder and genocide would be removed completely.^[164]
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully ended the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery. King gave a speech titled "How Long, Not Long". The event was marred by the murder of white Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo, 39, who was shot dead by a sniper as she was driving a black marcher back to Selma that evening. As her car traveled U.S. 60 in Lowndes County, Alabama at a marshy area referred to as "Big Swamp", a car pulled alongside and fired, hitting Mrs. Liuzzo in the head. ^{[165] [166]}

March 26, 1965 (Friday)

• Decree of the Information Minister Number 29/SK/M/65 was passed, requiring all Indonesia's newspapers to ally themselves with a political party.
• Border Television became responsible for ITV coverage in the Isle of Man.
• Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming was given its world première at the New Theatre, Cardiff, by the Royal Shakespeare Company directed by Peter Hall.^[167]
• The United Arab Republic offered the United States the Temple of Dendur, which had already been taken apart and prepared for shipment.^[31][168]
• Died: Alice Herz, 62, who had immolated herself on March 16.^[169]

March 27, 1965 (Saturday)

• Norwegian tanker SS Nora collided with the Liberian ship MV Otto N. Miller in the English Channel. Both ships caught fire and there was a large oil spill.^[170]

March 28, 1965 (Sunday)

• More than 200 people were killed in the El Cobre landslide that followed a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Two tailings dams failed at the El Soldado copper mine in Chile, and the resulting flow destroyed the town of El Cobre. .^[171]
• Erland Kops of Denmark won the men's singles title at the 1965 All England Open Badminton Championships at Wembley Arena, London.
• Died: Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, 67, daughter of King George V of the United Kingdom

March 29, 1965 (Monday)

• West German cargo ship MV Katharina Kolkmann collided with the UK ship SS Ganne and sank in the English Channel 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) off Folkestone, Kent, with the loss of one of its fifteen crew.^[172]

March 30, 1965 (Tuesday)

• Funeral services were held for Viola Liuzzo, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic church in Detroit. Many prominent members of both the civil rights movement and government were present, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins; Congress on Racial Equality national leader James Farmer; Michigan lieutenant governor William G. Milliken; Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa; and United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther.
• The second ODECA charter, signed on 12 December 1962, became effective.

March 31, 1965 (Wednesday)

• Born: Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes (died 2006)
• Died: Mario Mafai, 63, Italian painter and founder of the Scuola Romana movement

Date unknown

• Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan submitted a groundbreaking and controversial report for President Johnson, entitled The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, for limited circulation within government. "From December through March," a historian would later write, "Moynihan and his staff put together the document and in the process worked out a strategy of placement and presentation. At the same time, he laid the groundwork for the reception of the report by speaking from time to time to those he wished in the end to persuade. In March, the document was formally cleared by Secretary of Labor Wirtz and one hundred nicely printed and bound copies run off in the basement of the Department of Labor." After a reference by President Johnson to Moynihan's statistics and commentary concerning the roots of African-American poverty in a speech on June 4, interest in what would become known simply as "The Moynihan Report",

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135. "Ex-King Farouk Collapses, Dies In Rome Restaurant At Age 45", Tucson (AZ) Daily Citizen, March 18, 1965, p17
136. "Roly-Poly Playboy Ex-King Farouk Dies", by Gerald Miller, AP report in La Crosse (WI) Tribune, March 18, 1965, p3
137. "Georgina (Louisiana)", in Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, W. Craig Gaines, ed. (LSU Press, 2008) pp146-147
138. e.g. "Today in History", Santa Monica (CA) Daily Press, March 19, 2010
139. For example, in an interview in 2009, Spence said only that he had found the wreck when he was 17 years old. "A Lifetime of Treasures: Shipwreck hunters says 'Robinson Crusoe' led him to his career", by Jennifer Colton, The Index-Journal (Greenwood SC), July 13, 2009, p3
140. "Jakarta Grabs 3 U.S., Dutch Oil Companies", Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1965, p13
141. Charles H. Townes, et al., Human Factors in Long-duration Spaceflight (National Academy of Science, 1972) p6
142. "Fire Engulfed Russ Space Bus, Tass Says", Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1965, p1
143. Bernd J. Fischer, Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe (Purdue University Press, 2007) p319
144. "Gheorgiu-Dej, Romanian Red Chief, Is Dead", Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1965, p12
145. John M. Schuessler, Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2015)
146. William Conrad Gibbons, The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War: Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships, Part III: 1965-1966 (Princeton University Press, 2014) pp174-175
147. Paul J. Scheips, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992 (Government Printing Office, 2005) p163
148. "GUARD CALLED BY JOHNSON— Troops Ordered in Alabama to Protect March", Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1965, p1
149. Robert Gillespie, Black Ops, Vietnam: An Operational History of MACVSOG (Naval Institute Press, 2011)
150. "5,000 MARCH; 300 CAMP— Rest Return to Selma for Night", Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1965, p1
151. "Ranger 9 on Its Way to Film Moonscape", Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1965, p1
152. "Reds Gain in French Elections", Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1965, p2-14
153. "Five Bombs Found in Negro Neighborhood of Birmingham", Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1965, p2
154. "New Red Leader Chosen— Romanian Communists Select Nicolae Ceausescu", Kansas City Times, March 23, 1965, p2
155. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1965" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka.
156. "Woman Chief, Leftists Lag in Ceylon Vote", Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1965, p12
157. Robin Bidwell, "Casablanca Riots, Dictionary of Modern Arab History; Routledge 1998/2010, p. 110.
158. "Casablanca Students Riot Over Age Rule", Corpus Christi (TX) Times, March 24, 1965, p9
159. "A FIRST IN SPACE FOR U.S.— 2 Gemini Astronauts Shift Capsule's Orbit", Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1965, p1
160. "Mae Murray, Glamor Gal of Silents, Dies— Earned Million in Year; Penniless in End", Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1965, p2-7
161. "Bobby Is 1st Conqueror of Mt. Kennedy", Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1965, p1
162. "Finds Ranger Moon Photos Are Best Yet", Chicago Tribune, March 25, 1965, p1
163. "Germany Lengthens Nazi Hunt", Lincoln (NE) Star (Hagerstown MD), March 26, 1965, p1
164. Richard J. Goldstone and Adam M. Smith, International Judicial Institutions: The Architecture of International Justice at Home and Abroad (Routledge, 2015) p100
165. "RIGHTS WORKER SLAIN", Milwaukee Sentinel, March 26, 1965, p1
166. "WOMAN RIGHTS MARCHER SLAIN— Shot in Auto Hauling Protest Group to Selma", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 26, 1965, p1
167. Nightingale, Benedict (1965-03-27). "review: The Homecoming at Cardiff". The Guardian. p. 6.
168. "Egypt Offers 2,000-Yr.-Old Temple to U.S.: It's Dismantled, Ready for Shipment"; Chicago Tribune, March 27, 1965.
169. Charles Francis Howlett, "Alice Herz", in: Spencer C. Tucker (May 20, 2011). The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. pp. 483–84. ISBN 978-1-85109-961-0. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
170. "Navy Sink the Oil Patch" The Times (London). Monday, 29 March 1965. (56282), col C-D, p. 10.
171. Rudolph, T.; Coldewey (W.G.). "Implications of Earthquakes on the Stability of Tailings Dams" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
172. "German Ship Sinks in Channel" The Times (London). Tuesday, 30 March 1965. (56283), col E, p. 5.
173. Lee Rainwater & William Yancey, The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy (M.I.T. Press, 1967) p26