Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said youths approached to loot the store, and his gun went off in the scuffle. All involved were Negroes; yet rumors that Mrs. Johnson was killed by a "white honky cop" sparked a riot. Noel Wright, 30, a white University of Cincinnati graduate student, was yanked from his car, beaten and fatally stabbed while his wife was savaged by Negro girls...
Some Negroes were victims of roaming predators. Rudolph Hargett, 18, a Negro Air Force recruit home on leave in Jacksonville, Fla., was astride his bicycle when he was shot in the head by a .22-rifle bullet that apparently came from a car full of night-riding whites. The Rev. George E. McKinney, 50, and his 16-year-old son were crossing the street not far from their home in Kansas City when both were shot down either by an unknown sniper or by police gunfire...
Some of the deaths were caused by the natural hazards of insurrection. Negro Construction Worker Harold Bentley, 34, was walking close to a smoldering Washington building when a wall collapsed on him. Lois T. Majette, 20, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a police cruiser on the way to Baltimore's riot scene. In all, despite disorders in 168 communities, only six lives were taken by rioters' anger...
...registered in Gait's name. It had been parked near a public-housing project since the morning after King's assassination. The killer is believed to have escaped in a white Mustang, and the FBI clearly thought that this was the assassin's car. It had been bought in Birmingham for $2,000 cash...
However, to make an overnight trip from Memphis to Atlanta-382 miles-in so conspicuous a car being sought by police would be almost as bold a move as the shooting itself. Adding to the confusion was a new report that there had been two white Mustangs parked near the rooming house on Memphis' South Main Street, the origin of the single fatal bullet...