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June 2; A year and a day after being hired as Washington Parish's first black deputy sheriffs, Oneal Moore and Creed Rogers are attacked while on patrol in Varnado. Moore is killed instantly and Rogers loses an eye when the patrol car crashes. Rogers will retire from the Sheriff's Office in 1988 as a Captain. A suspect is released weeks later for lack of evidence. The case is briefly reopened in 1989 and 2001. |
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| Hurricane Betsy hits New Orleans with a fury. Although only a category 3 hurricane it will remain the costliest for twenty-four years. | Sidney Besthof III takes over at the helm of Katz & Besthoff Drug Stores in 1965 at the age of 38. There are 25 stores in the family chain at this time. Its drugstore prototype of the future in the 1954 is a winning formula through the 1980s as the company expands through a strip shopping center boom. | A series of evening concerts organized by lawyer Dean Andrews is called the New Orleans Jazz Festival and portends a more elaborate festival in the future. | A racial crises is qwelled in Bogalousa by John McKeithen with the help of civil rights leader A. Z. Young | Louisiana State defeats Syracuse 13-10 in this year's Sugar Bowl. | |||||||
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