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...hard enough to keep up with Johnny Unitas by himself, but when he has receivers like Raymond Berry, Jimmy Orr, Lenny Moore, John Mackey and outstanding rookie Jay Perkins of Alabama, not even the likes of Leroy Mitchell can keep up the pace...
Made to honor Professor Mabel K. Whiteside, who herself plays the role of a Priest of Dionysus, the film will be introduced and will carry commentary by William Yandell Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, emeritus, at Harvard; former Director of the Harvard Summer School; and currently University Professor at The American University...
...rights has left deep imprints, especially in the South. There were the marchers streaming over Selma's Pettus Bridge on their way to Montgomery, Ala., after having been stopped by tear gas and cattle prods the day before. There was the blank puzzlement on the faces of Collie Leroy Wilkins and his two accomplices after their conviction for violating the civil rights of Selma Marcher Viola Liuzzo, after they had been previously acquitted of murdering her. There were the pictures of Negro voters forming a long line outside an Alabama coun- try store to vote for the first time...
Last-Ditch Verdict. Soon after Selma came Johnson's finest hour of putting down lawlessness: the trial of the three Klansmen for gunning down Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo on Route 80 after the march. A Lowndes County jury had acquitted Collie Leroy Wilkins, though an FBI informant testified that he saw Wilkins commit the murder...
Half a dozen or so central characters, wearing both the blue and the grey, move forward to the conflict. On the Confederate side, the standouts are General Forrest, a bombastic, semiliterate slave trader who leads a ferocious cavalry charge, and Captain Hamilton LeRoy Acox, a mild Georgian who, though weary of war, wields a mighty sword in a lunatic moment at Fort Pillow...