On this day in conspiracies

General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters cables Washington advising that further data could be secured by assuring the Japanese scientists their information would stay in intelligence channels and not be used as war-crimes evidence.

Awakened by barking dogs in the early morning, McDaniel reports seeing the creature a second time, walking unhurriedly along the railroad tracks near his house. He says he does not shoot at it. This second sighting reignites public interest and is often marked as the peak of the Enfield mania.

The Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives) announces the results of forensic tests: the paper, ink, glue, and bindings all contain materials of postwar manufacture. The diaries are declared forgeries. Two senior Stern editors resign.

The boys' bodies are found in a water-filled drainage ditch in the Robin Hood Hills woods, less than a day after they were reported missing. They had been bound and killed; the brutality of the scene shocks the community and drives an intense search for suspects.