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...BOBBY HOSEA Faux O.J helps earn Fox its top movie rating to date...
Still to come: The O.J. Simpson Story, the movie the Fox network will aerate television with on Tuesday, after delaying the broadcast until a jury was sequestered--as though it mattered. The film, as shocking in its revelations as an old calendar, stars Bobby (China Beach) Hosea as O.J., Jessica (One Life to Live) Tuck as Nicole and David (The O.J. Simpson Story) Roberson as A.C. Cowlings. The docudrama opens with the Simpson kids' Akita, Kato, looking to fetch help back to the site of the carnage, the most suspenseful moment of the whole thing. Faithful to the public record...
When he joined Dr. King's cause, he became the negotiator with white sheriffs and FBI agents. S.C.L.C. veteran Hosea Williams says, "I would go into a town and rile up the blacks and make the whites say, 'What will these crazy niggers do next?' and then in would come nice little Andy saying, 'There are some points we would like to discuss with you.' " When Williams called Young an Uncle Tom, "he jumped on me physically, right in front of Dr. King...
Their hair was grayer, their faces more lined, but here they all came, marching proudly out of history and onto the newest battlefield of racial conflict. Coretta King, Hosea Williams, Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young -- some of them had demonstrated with Martin Luther King in Montgomery, and some in Selma, and some in Washington, and now they had gathered with more than 20,000 supporters to march through Cumming, in Forsyth County, Ga., to protest the immutable racism there and the resurgence of racism elsewhere. And though King had been shot down 19 years ago, this was the week for observing...
...some in Klansmen's sheets, some in military fatigues, who greeted them with rocks, bottles, clots of mud and chants of "Go home, niggers!" Four of the 90-odd marchers were injured, and eight attackers were arrested before the march broke off. "It is amazing," said Atlanta City Councilman Hosea Williams, who was hit twice by flying stones, "that this kind of racial violence can happen in this country...