Word: gunfighting
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...purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after the gunfight, she bought an airplane ticket in nearby San Francisco for a flight to Los Angeles...
...scene required the leading man to enter a boudoir where Actress Karen Black, 27, reclined in a costume consisting of nothing but makeup. Absolutely not, said Johnny Cash, 38, Nashville's country-and-western singer, in Hollywood for his first starring film role in A Gunfight. "How could I do that and then record an album of hymns?" he demanded. To spare Johnny that moral crisis, Karen's topography was concealed...
Mystic Murderer. The pattern began to crystallize last summer, when Cleveland police were lured into an ambush led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans, a black mystic. Last month he was sentenced to death for the murder of three policemen and one civilian killed in the gunfight. In recent weeks, there have been shooting incidents involving police and snipers in Cairo, Ill., Portland, Ore., and Sacramento, Calif. Police were attacked by black snipers outside a Detroit church this spring and at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. In Chicago, two white policemen were fired on after another cop shot a black...
...upheaval, which began with an ambush by blacks on police, was markedly different from other major outbreaks. Violence was directed toward people, not property, and there were more white casualties than Negro. Three whites and four Negroes were killed, twelve whites and three blacks wounded in the ghetto gunfight. The report blamed the violence on "a small and well-equipped army of black extremists." Fred ("Ahmed") Evans, leader of the ambush, has been sentenced to the electric chair for the deaths of three police and a civilian...
Newton was accused of killing a cop in a gunfight, for which he could have gone to the gas chamber. Last week, instead, he was found guilty of manslaughter, and now he faces two to 15 years in prison. Though there were only a few racial outbursts to mark the court's finding, no one in Oakland was taking threats by Black Panthers with anything but seriousness...