Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, worried officials prevailed upon Presidential Candidate George Wallace to avoid a scheduled appearance that might have ignited the tense community. The rites in Boston's Roxbury district included a mural showing Malcolm "ripping the whiteness from the faces of black people who are discovering their own beauty," while his other hand spat fire at "the symbols of white America-the flag, the White House and the false God of Christianity as it is now practiced...
Died. Joe B. Brown, 59, Dallas district judge who presided over Jack Ruby's 1964 trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; of a heart attack; in Dallas. An easygoing Texan, Brown drew criticism for permitting noisy spats between lawyers and letting cameramen record the verdict on live TV; more serious, he entertained so much questionable testimony that a higher court later struck down the decision and ordered a retrial away from Dallas...
Iowa's John Culver detected in his Second Congressional District a similar sentiment: "Although they don't like to see our power muscle-bound in a nuclear age," he said, "I think the people here are inclined to favor Johnson's policy...
Illinois' Ninth District embraces Chicago's Gold Coast as well as the city's crowded West Side tenements. In both neighborhoods, Representative Sidney Yates encountered uneasiness with the war. "But, to use a hackneyed phrase," Yates declared, "they don't want peace without honor...
...will almost certainly never defend a Klansman or anyone else again. If he is found insane, that means at least temporary disbarment. If sane, he will probably get a ten-year rap for the kidnaping, which means permanent disbarment. Moreover, if he manages to get his conviction reversed, Pascagoula District Attorney Donald Cumbest fully intends to bring as many other charges against Buckley as he can find. First on the list: an alleged attempt by Buckley to fix the jury that eventually found him guilty. Says the angry Cumbest: "These people have been terrorizing, kidnaping and murdering...