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EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Highlights of a concert of sacred music written and performed by Duke Ellington from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York...
Paradoxically, when a Negro riot ensued during his first Memphis march a fortnight ago, and Loeb (along with Tennessee Governor Buford Ellington) responded with state troopers and National Guardsmen, King felt that his nonviolent philosophy had been besmirched and wanted to withdraw. Only at the urging of his aides in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference did he consent to return...
Even before King was pronounced dead, NBC and CBS deployed film crews to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Duke Ellington was playing a benefit for a Mississippi Negro college. As it began, the producer announced the news and cameras caught the stunned and horror-stricken faces in the audience. From Cleveland, CBS carried a film of tear-streaked Mayor Carl Stokes Negro as his constituents sang America. No less eloquent was an interview with Ben Branch, a King aide who had been with him at the time of the assassination and who was still too be numbed to respond...
Though relatively mild, the rampage panicked authorities. "We have a war!" cried Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman. Mayor Loeb slapped down a curfew, shuttered liquor stores, bars and entertainment places, and stopped the buses. Governor Buford Ellington rushed in 250 state troopers and 4,000 Tennessee National Guardsmen...
...sensitive question can bring an abrupt dismissal--he refuses to speculate on his political standing in Tennessee or whether he might endorse Robert Kennedy. But it would probably be difficult for Gore to challenge his state party's allegiance to the President. Southern Governors control their parties, and Buford Ellington of Tennessee has close personal and political ties to Lyndon Johnson...