We all know what the afternoon papers were printing, but this is somewhat interesting. The headline in our local morning paper was the story of a U-2 crash that I’ll go out on a limb and say that most people have never heard of.
Not Francis Gary Powers! That was three years earlier.
Not Rudolph Anderson. That was a year earlier.
On November 20th, a U-2 piloted by one Capt. Joe G. Hyde, crashed into the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Key West, almost certainly having returned from a patrol over or near Cuba. Information on this crash is. . rather thin, considering that it was probably a classified mission. It’s thought that Capt. Hyde probably ejected, since he was not found in the fuselage wreckage (in only 100 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico), but his body was never [officially] recovered. The cause of the crash, if known, was never publicly disclosed.
The other stories ‘above the fold’ were about a questionable stock deal by Wisconsin Congressman John W. Byrnes, and Soviets messing around in Iran and ‘The Congo’. Also a small note on Page 3 which mentions JFK would meet Sunday afternoon with Vietnam ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge to ‘assess developments in Vietnam,’ a meeting that he would obviously never make.
Other stories of the day:
Below the fold was an article on the death of Robert Stroud, the ‘Birdman of Alcatraz.’
On Page 8, is an article about Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi captor of Anne Frank’s family.
Agents seized $52K dollars worth of weed from a farm in Greenville GA.
A British stripper was arrested for attempting to buy clothes (on someone else’s credit).
A local woman was charged with smuggling hacksaw blades to her jailed husband. (No indication a cake was involved.)
Going back the the U-2 story, here’s an article about the incident by the Hyde’s son: