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coalition talks between Kiesinger and Mende broken off because of Free Dem stand
Mins meeting
Pres Johnson approves $1,053,410,000 in aid for over 7-million needy and otherwise deprived children in low-income areas, including 430,000 parochial school pupils, $95-million over '65
FBI Dir Hoover says no evidence has been found to indicate Oswald had accomplice or that there was conspiracy, statement; charges critics have ignored or misinterpreted facts; gives 1st official explanation of discrepancies between 2 FBI autopsy repts and comm rept; FBI repts say bullet struck Kennedy below back of neck and did not pass through body; comm rept says it passed through body and hit Connally; Hoover says 1st FBI rept, dated Dec 9 '63, was based on autopsy drs' comments made on Nov 22; drs believed at that time that bullet had not passed through body; data obtained following day showed it had; Hoover says FBI knew when it submitted 2d rept, Jan 13 '64, that comm had official autopsy rept showing bullet passed through body and therefore did not mention it; discrepancy used by critics to fan dispute over adequacy of comm's probe; Hoover concludes that there is difference between FBI and autopsy repts but no conflict; denies FBI altered Zapruder film; says original was bought by Life, that FBI got uncut copy of it and reproduced it for comm; Govt-owned French TV broadcasts exam of comm rept and gives 'compelling impression' of doubt that Oswald acted alone; comm aide Prof L D Hubert Jr opposes new probe
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 23, 1966, covering November 26, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
The Supremes
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
1966Kristin Bauer van Straten, American actress[†]
Kristin Bauer van Straten is an American film and television actress, notable for her roles as vampire Pamela Swynford De Beaufort on the HBO television series True Blood, Jerry's girlfriend Gillian on Seinfeld, and as Maleficent in the ABC series Once Upon a Time.
1966Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian-American actress and singer[†]
Garcelle Beauvais is a Haitian-American actress and television personality. She is best known for her starring roles in the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show and the crime drama series NYPD Blue. She also appeared in the films Coming to America (1988) and its sequel, Coming 2 America (2021), White House Down (2013), and Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
1966Fahed Dermech, Tunisian footballer[†]
Fahed Dermech is a retired Tunisian footballer.
1966Sue Wicks, American basketball player and coach[†]
Susan Joy Wicks is a former basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played with the New York Liberty from 1997 to 2002. Wicks was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]