Word: dade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for Martin Luther King's killer spread in ever-widening circles. FBI and police investigators ran down leads in Memphis and Mexico, in Atlanta and Birmingham, in Dade County, Fla., Hamburg, Ark., and a dozen other localities...
...agent allowed that "hundreds" of individuals were being checked. One name that surfaced-apparently because of an FBI slip-was that of Eric Starve Gait, 36, of Birmingham. The FBI put out an advisory to police, requesting that Gait be located though not arrested. When word leaked out in Dade County, the FBI rescinded the request but continued to ask questions at Gait's last known address, a Birmingham rooming house...
...opportunities and continuing education. At Florida's huge Miami-Dade Junior College, 23,000 students are pursuing both academic courses and a host of vocational interests, ranging from fashion modeling for women to flight training for men. The school even has the nation's largest mortuary-science program-150 students-with facilities to work on five corpses at a time...
...Republicanism in Florida, as in much of the Old Confederacy, has become respectable. G.O.P. national tickets carried the state in 1952, 1956 and 1960 and came within 43,000 votes of winning in 1964. The conservative Democratic establishment, backed by the pulp, citrus, mineral and commercial interests north of Dade County and Miami, clung to power in state elections...
Armchair Detectives. Over and over, Foreman alluded to an alleged conspiracy between Miami police and Mossler's other relatives to railroad the defendants and get control of the estate. The jury, well aware that Dade County (Miami) police are currently under fire for various scandals, quickly got the hint. To cap it all, the defense produced 1) an ex-Mossler handyman who said that he had seen the financier cavorting half naked with three youths; 2) an insurance agent who owned a white convertible, and had once lived with Mossler; 3) police testimony that Interior Decorator Fred Weissel...