100 years ago
June 23, 1919
• Hospitality and friendship and welcome, the good old Southern brand of it, was what the officers and men of the 142nd Field Artillery felt when they arrived in Little Rock from Camp Pike yesterday afternoon to be the guests of the city upon their return from France. And Little Rock citizens, thousands upon thousands of them, lined Main street and Tenth street and filled the City park to see the home boys again for the first time since their departure for the war zone.
50 years ago
June 23, 1969
WASHINGTON -- Senator J. William Fulbright (Dem., Ark.), declaring that President Nixon had "confirmed my fears he was not going to change the Johnson policy," announced Sunday that he soon would start a new round of public hearings on Vietnam. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that Mr. Nixon's speech at the Air Force Academy and the subsequent meeting at Midway with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu only showed that the president was committed to the same policies as the administration of former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
25 years ago
June 23, 1994
• A C-130 from Little Rock Air Force Base on Friday transported to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the first six Haitians to qualify for U.S. asylum under President Clinton's new Haitian political refugee plan. Officials deployed two C-130s and 74 airmen from LRAFB to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay between June 6-13 to help the Coast Guard and Navy implement Clinton's plan. The six Haitians came from 35 refugees picked up by a Coast Guard cutter June 16 from rickety boats off their homeland. Officials took them to a hospital ship in Kingston, Jamaica, that serves as a floating migrant processing center. U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service officials there deemed six of the Haitians to be political refugees and sent them to Guantanamo Bay on Friday, said Maj. Jamie Roach, a spokesman for the U.S. Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Va. The refugees will stay at Guantanamo Bay until officials find sponsors for them in the United States, Roach said. Clinton announced the change in U.S. policy -- the "Haitian Migrant Operation" -- May 8, Roach said. Coast Guard officials until last week sent Haitian refugees back to Haiti.
10 years ago
June 23, 2009
• A nonprofit group that works with the National Park Service worries that the pastoral setting of Pea Ridge National Military Park will eventually be beset by development that brought new subdivisions and businesses to other parts of Benton County over the past few years. But protective measures such as zoning rules and conservation easements would keep industrial buildings or fast food restaurants from popping up along the battlefield's boundary, according to a report released today by the National Parks Conservation Association. The association believes preserving the landscape, views and sounds that Civil War soldiers experienced during the battle at Pea Ridge in March 1862 is important to America's story.
Metro on 06/23/2019