This Week In '66 - Hairspray Hazards

 

With Lynn Peril

The Sioux nations continues their claim, filed in 1923, for payment for the U.S. Government’s theft of the Black Hills; Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow tries to sell the gun used to kill JFK; and a surprising and disturbing litany of hair spray-related injuries and death. 

“Beautiful?” Student Life (Logan, Utah), February 27, 1963, 2. 

“Flaming Truth,” Star-Gazette (Elmira, New York), September 24, 1966, 6.

“Girls Now Rat and Tease–For Hairdos, That Is!” Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg, Massachusetts), March 22, 1963, 3. 

United States. National Commission on Product Safety, Hearings, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 1970, 709.

“Indian Group to Pray for Land Return,” The Daily Plainsman (Huron, South Dakota), February 17, 1966, 1. 

Jimison, Susan, “Hairspray Bursts into Flames and Burns Beauty to a Crisp!” Weekly World News, September 1, 1992, 45. 

“Judge Rules Government Has Right to Oswald Guns,” The Wichita Eagle, February 22, 1966, 15. 

“Man arrested after wife set on fire,” The News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana), October 27, 2016, 83. 

Miller, Joy, “Far Out Hairstyles of Today Nothing New, Author Reports,” News Herald (Point Clinton, OH), December 2, 1965, 4. 

“Sioux Ask $70 Million for Black Hills,” The Wichita Eagle, February 21, 1966, 6. 

Steger, W.C., “Ladies Beware When Spraying Your Hair,” Safety Review, Volume 28, Number 7, July 1971, 6. 

“‘Teasing’ Needed for Bouffant Coiffures,” The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts), May 25, 1962, 13. 

“Woman’s Hair Erupts in Flames As Spray Ignites,” The Fresno Bee, February 20, 1966, 1.