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...crack of a sniper's bullet-and sometimes simply the bang of a firecracker or the pop of a light bulb-brought forth fantastic fusillades from police and National Guard rifles, shotguns, machine guns and pistols. Four-year-old Tonia Blanding was shot dead in an apartment when lawmen saw her uncle strike a match to light a cigarette, mistook the flare for a sniper's muzzle flash, and poured bullets through the window...
...continued very high throughout the area. In Newark, police and National Guardsmen were accused of deliberately smashing windows of stores bearing the legend "Soul Brother"-a sign of Negro ownership. In one case, each letter of "soul" was stitched with bullets. Often, when snipers fired from rooftops or windows, lawmen responded by riddling the entire building with withering fusillades, despite commands to "know your target before firing." Mrs. Eloise Spellman, 41, mother of eleven, died when she stood up from her living room couch just as a police barrage began...
...Justice Department has proposed voluntary guidelines modeled on a system used in Omaha. At the outbreak of a riot, police relay a "Code 30" to newsmen; they, in turn, hold up riot bulletins for 30 minutes-usually enough time for lawmen to establish control. During the news gap, police provide at least as much information on the riot as newsmen could gather in so short a time. The Justice Department has also asked for less inflammatory language in riot coverage and greater care in substantiating the facts...
...plot that launched a thousand westerns starts with the town's God, fearing merchants up to their sleeve garters in fear and frustration. The black hats are many and merciless, the lawmen feckless and few. The community antes up for its own gunmen, and the action begins. Now, in real life and modern dress, the city of Houston is playing out the old melodrama...
...night newspapers that flourished on the Western frontier. Their exuberant, quarrelsome editors are now a forgotten breed. But, as Author John Myers Myers (The Alamo, San Francisco's Reign of Terror) makes clear, they were as much a fixture of the 19th century Western scene as outlaws and lawmen. Some Westerners were as passionate about putting out a paper as others were about accumulating cattle or prospecting for gold...