Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jennye is the student editor of Labyrinth, the literary magazine at the school where 13 years ago paratroopers had to escort black children through white mobs into class. Today about 20% of the student body of 1,700 is black. Around the pond in front of Central High, blacks and whites chatter amiably, with little outward sign of the turmoil that stunned the nation...
...author of the letter was Jackie Kennedy. Her escort in the Maryland countryside was the dashing Roswell Gilpatric, at the time Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy Administration. On the day of their excursion, June 7, 1963, John Kennedy was 3,000 miles away in California watching a demonstration of naval weaponry. The next day he would leave for Honolulu, all part of a five-day presidential trip...
...TRIALS themselves are as "intimidating" as anything Dean May felt in the nasty November 19 demonstration. They are closed meetings, where only witnesses and one person for counsel are permitted. Three policemen escort each of the defendants through four sets of locked doors on the way to the trial. Each set of doors is carefully unlocked in front and then locked behind the defendant before the next set is opened. No press is allowed, even if the defendant asks for his testimony to be made public. Virtually all those charged in the political demonstrations of the past year have asked...