Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Over 1000 Indians gathered at Gordon, Neb., in March 1972 to protest the death of Raymond Yellow Thunder. Yellow Thunder, a resident of the Pine Ridge reservation, was found dead in Gordon on February 20. The autopsy showed Yellow Thunder died of a cerebral hemorrhage, but AIM requested, and obtained, a Federal grand jury to investigate the death. Reliable reports said a few white youths had harrassed Yellow Thunder, forced him to dance in front of others, and threw him out in the cold. This incident occurred a week before he was found dead...
...Four days after AIM arrived in Gordon, 300 Indians left Gordon and headed for Wounded Knee, 40 miles north. The demonstrators stormed the museum at the historic site, causing $50,000 damage. The militants claimed that James Czywczynski, owner of the museum, touched off the incident when he allegedly roughed up an 11-year-old Sioux boy. Czywczynski, like most Pine Ridge residents who own businesses, is white...
...GORDON G. POWER...
...West wild again. Rustlers prowl the prairies in pickup trucks, absconding with unbranded cattle, which they then sell for $100 to $500 a head. Sometimes they kill and dress steers on the spot; at least three of the animals have been slain by bow and arrow. Says California Rancher Gordon Garland: "Cattle theft in the foothills has increased so much in recent months that ranchers are now forced to carry guns to protect their own physical well-being." Another leathery son of the soil advises: "When you catch some slob stealing, shoot...
...closed session, McCord told the Senators that most of his information implicating higher officials came from G. Gordon Liddy, a former White House aide and re-election committee official who had also been convicted in the Watergate bugging. Other such information, he said, came from a former White House consultant, E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had pleaded guilty in the Watergate operation. Thus McCord's charges were based on "hearsay" that is not admissible evidence in a courtroom but was nevertheless invaluable to the committee, which is interested in the ethics of the political spying as much...