in the Philippines, and were taking apart the device while curious onlookers watched. Escape-motor canting-angle tests for Project Mercury were completed at Wallops Island. Tests were conducted in 5-degree increments between 10 degrees to 30 degrees, and visually it appeared stability was better at the larger angle. A sniper attempted to shoot Virginia Governor J. Lindsay Almond outside the Executive Mansion in Richmond. The Governor was unhurt, and the would-be assassin was not found. Born: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, songwriter/musician; in Indianapolis Brian Setzer, American rock musician for the band Stray Cats; in Massapequa, New York Died: Leonard Shockley, 17, became the last juvenile to be executed in the United States. Shockley, who was 16 when he committed a murder by cutting the throat of a shopkeeper, was put to death in the gas chamber at the Maryland State Penitentiary at . For nearly 40 years, he would also be the last person to be executed for a crime committed as a minor. On February 4, 1999, Sean Sellers would be put to death in Oklahoma for a 1985 murder committed when he was 16. April 11, 1959 (Saturday) William H. Pickering, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, announced America's plans for a manned lunar mission "within the next 5 to 10 years". Speaking to a group of Caltech alumni, Pickering said that the Nova rocket, once perfected, would "be able to transport two or three men to the moon and return them to earth." April 12, 1959 (Sunday) The body of former Haitian presidential candidate Clement Jumelle was hijacked from the funeral procession in Port-au-Prince. It has been speculated that Haitian dictator François Duvalier wanted to use the brain in a voodoo ceremony. The myth of the Chinese word for "crisis" was perpetuated by Senator John F. Kennedy, who said, "When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters—one represents danger and the other represents opportunity." Tests were in progress at Langley in which an aluminium honeycomb structure was used partially to absorb the Mercury spacecraft impact load. Robert R. Gilruth, Project Mercury Director, had stated his belief of this requirement on January 16, 1959. Space Task Group conducted the second full-scale beach abort test on Wallops Island. A deliberate thrust misalignment of was programed into the escape combination. Lift-off was effected cleanly, and a slow pitch started during the burning of the escape rocket motor. The