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...from the White House ceremony: he was former Marine Captain Arthur J. Jackson, 38, who in September 1944 charged into withering enemy fire on Peleliu, destroyed twelve pillboxes and killed 50 Japanese soldiers. Now Jackson has been forced out of the Marine Corps, accused of killing a Cuban at Guantanamo...
...Cuban affair of a different stripe was plaguing the U.S. last week. The story had leaked that a Castro agent, working as a bus driver on Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, was shot and killed in 1961 by Marine Captain Arthur J. Jackson, a Medal of Honor winner in World War II. The marine officer had fired in self-defense, reported Jack Anderson in the syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, and then recruited four other marine officers and six enlisted men to help him dispose of the body. The U.S. made a pro forma apology to Castro. Then, Anderson...
Christmas song and dance taped Dec. 21 at Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba...
Everyone suddenly seemed to be feeling reasonably pleased about Cuba-well, almost everyone. President Kennedy obviously felt himself riding high as a result of public reaction to his handling of the situation. Some dependent families, evacuated from the U.S.'s Guantanamo Naval Base while the Cuba crisis was at its crest, were now back; the Pentagon hoped to have all the dependents returned to Gitmo by Christmas. Considerable satisfaction was found in the fact that the Soviet Union apparently had shipped 42 crated jet bombers homeward from Cuba; the skipper of at least one ship obligingly opened the crates...
MacDill Air Force Base; four in an RB-47 crash at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda; six in the crack-up of a C-135 transport at Guantanamo, and U-2 Pilot Major Rudolf Anderson, who was shot down by antiaircraft fire while on a photo-reconnaissance flight-one of more than 2,000 sorties over Cuba...