Milestones: Mar. 1, 1968

Died. 2nd Lieut. Richard W. Pershing, 24, grandson of World War 1's General of the Armies John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing; of combat wounds; near Quang Tri, Viet Nam. A Yale graduate who received his Army commission seven months ago, Pershing went to Viet Nam and was leading a patrol in search of a member of his platoon when he was killed in a Viet Cong ambush.

Died. Joe B. Brown, 59, Dallas district judge who presided over Jack Ruby's 1964 trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; of a heart attack; in...

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