Word: headines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square had been dug. "Throw 'em in," shouted the crowd. Sheriff Lauderdale warned them: "I'm still in charge, and I'm going to see they are buried right." While the dirt was shoveled in some members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round Up," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You," "Bye, Bye, Blackbirds." Finally Hernando went home to breakfast. Same day five other Negroes were executed- one at Tupelo, Miss, for murder; two at Raleigh, N. C. for murder; one for murder...
...months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride.* The Paramount audience that day suddenly found itself strangely affected, listened as it would have listened to an old familiar ballad. For the last time Billy Hill's cowboy coaxed his steers-into...