Word: arsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they had fired. However, neither the local nor the federal grand juries felt compelled to consider charges under the perjury or "false declaration" laws, Instead, they turned the shell casings over to the FBI. Before recessing, however, the county grand jury indicted a young black named Ernest Kyles for arson and inciting to riot...
...quell it, people are shot at random, evidence is suppressed, and a kangaroo tribunal returns indictments against the victims while clearing the killers. This is what happened during the summer and early fall at Kent: a grand jury cleared the Guardsmen, while indicting 25 students on charges of riot, arson, and unlawful assembly. The report-including a passage which stated that the responsibility for the shootings lay with the students, faculty, and Administration of the University-was published. It seemed likely that the students would be tried and sentenced and the matter forgotten...
...remember the draft board assaults, these men and their accomplices did do violence. They terrorized the personnel, committed arson, tore up property, poured blood around, and generally acted like hoodlums and vandals. I hold that violence, like virginity and pregnancy, is not subject to degree...
...rage of riot, arson and disorder eventually reached a point at which the central government was forced to acknowledge it openly. Warsaw television showed a 2½-minute film segment of overturned autos and charred buildings in Gdansk-but no protesting workers. Premier Józef Cyrankiewicz appeared on TV prime time to deplore the riots and to admit "a number of dead in the teens." The toll was undoubtedly higher; the first nongovernment estimate was at least 20 killed and 700 injured. Among the dead were "officials," meaning police. Indirectly, the Premier indicated that some of the demonstrators were...
...They are David Fine, 18; Leo Burt, 22; Dwight Armstrong, 19, and his brother Karleton, 24, a former Wisconsin student. Black Militant H. Rap Brown, 27, made the list after he failed to appear before a Maryland court last May for trial on charges of inciting to riot and arson during a 1967 demonstration. The longest search has been for Cameron Bishop, 28, charged with the 1969 dynamiting of electric power lines that supplied Colorado defense plants...