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...State police, under the direction of the notorious Col. Al Lingo, the Alabama director of public safety who first used cattle prods to break up civil rights demonstrations, are by far the largest and most formidable policing force in either city. The troopers are supplemented by "conservation officers," a ragtag band of rednecks, mostly from rural areas, who are anxious to beat the hell out of any Negroes they can lay hands...
Head It Off. Colonel Al Lingo was in Selma too-this time with 500 state troopers, leaving only about 250 to attend to the rest of Alabama's law-enforcement requirements. FBI agents drifted unobtrusively into town. Straw-bossing federal activities was John Doar, Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of civil rights. As a personal mediator sent by President Johnson came LeRoy Collins, onetime Democratic Governor of Florida, now chairman of the Community Relations Service, which was established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collins' orders from Johnson were to head off trouble at all costs...
Mapping the Route. Mediator LeRoy Collins provided an answer-of sorts. He had conferred with Selma's Mayor Smitherman, with Top Trooper Al Lingo and Sheriff Clark. They were willing to let the civil rights marchers cross the bridge to the point on Highway 80 where the Sunday march ended in disaster. Then the troopers would turn King and his followers back-and King would leave peaceably. Lingo even drew a rough map of the route that the marchers would be permitted to take. Collins, in turn, showed the map to King, who reluctantly fell in with the plan...
...Bridge. Finally, Martin Luther King arrived, having committed himself to the deal proposed by Collins and approved by Smitherman, Lingo and Clark. His unsuspecting listeners settled into a respectful hush as he spoke of his "painful and difficult decision." Said King with great emotion: "I have made my choice. I have got to march. I do not know what lies ahead of us. There may be beatings, jailings, tear gas. But I would rather die on the highways of Alabama than make a butchery of my conscience! There is nothing more tragic in all this world than to know right...
With a plunking background and a beat that makes it sound somehow like a lilting dirge, that bit of drifter's lingo is the hottest item on the current top pop charts. Out less than two months, King of the Road passed the three-quarters of a million sales mark last week, is fourth and soaring on this week's Billboard listing. The lyrics, music and vocal are all by a personable young man named Roger Miller, 29. He is no new Beatle, but he has got what they call something. Raised in Oklahoma on a farm...