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...then hops back to his first gubernatorial campaign, slowing down to fill in some background before taking off with his infamous 1963 inaugural speech: "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" From here the film whirls through key moments in Wallace's career: blocking the door at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from entering; ordering the use of tear gas and billy clubs to oppose Martin Luther King's march from Selma; and falsely blaming Black Muslims for the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four young girls. Frankenheimer is particularly adept at capturing the mayhem...
There are no bad places to stump. So 1998 Republican Alabama Governor hopeful and Houston Rocket forward Charles Barkley, on trial last week for punching a guy in a bar (he won the case), used his time on the stand for gubernatorial trash talk. Among Sir Charles' policy statements...
...suspects, like a lot of young men, spent their weekdays working or looking for jobs, their nights chasing girls, drinking beer and raiding the fridge before bed. Weekends were reserved mostly for playing hoops. The Hollis brothers, whose father is a disabled Air Force veteran, moved to Flint from Alabama two years ago. "They aren't angels, but they are good kids," says John Hollis, 45, uncle to Adrian and Anthony. "Those other kids weren't angels either or they wouldn't have been here in Flint...
...died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights veteran who was in Alabama at the time: "It was one of the darkest hours of the civil rights movement...
...ORLEANS: As Hurricane Danny slowly makes its way towards coastal Mississippi and Alabama, inhabitants along the coast are preparing for a bumpy ride. Danny, which was upgraded today from a tropical storm to a hurricane, has already pounded Louisiana's Grand Isle with winds up to 75 mph and storm tides as high as six feet. Heavy wind damage was reported on the island, but so far, no one has been injured, local authorities said. The island's 2,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate. The storm is currently located about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans...