Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enacted during Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three of its former members accused of killing a Negro, should pay damages...
Members of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, who took the case to the federal courts, asked for $1,000,000 in punitive damages. Judge Cox held that the three defendants were unquestionably responsible for "the dastardly act"; as a matter of law, he said, no reasonable person could dispute their liability. The jury of eight Negroes and four whites then called for $21,500 actual damages, plus $1,000,000 punitive damages. Said Attorney Martha Wood: "We hope that an award of this size will deter such acts in the future...
...government is putting pressure on Sweden and France to stop granting asylum to deserters, Cox said, noting that the American pressure was becoming increasingly embarrassing for everyone...
...Cox said that he was going to participate in a movement to ask that general amnesty be granted to all American "political prisoners," including deserters, to allow them to return to this country...
...noted that President Andrew Johnson gave such an amnesty in 1868 to the former soldiers of the Confederate States of America. "Certainly, if we can take back men who bore arms against their country, we can take back men who objected to an immoral war," Cox said...