Word: liuzzo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third puzzling revelation of the week, Birmingham detectives disclosed that they had also questioned about the bombing two former Klan members: Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., 33, and Eugene Thomas, 54, who served ten years in prison for their part in the Liuzzo killing. They too wanted to switch the subject, to the Liuzzo shooting. For the first time, they claimed that Rowe killed the woman. Rowe has admitted being present at the murder, but insists that he only pretended to shoot a pistol at her, while Wil kins fired the fatal shot. But Wilkins and Thomas waited for twelve years...
...Freedom Riders at a Birmingham bus depot in 1961. He tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went off at a Birmingham church, killing four young black girls in 1963. His testimony sent two Klansmen to prison in connection with the murder near Selma, Ala., of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist from Detroit, in 1965. Then, to protect Rowe from Klansmen's revenge, the Justice Department gave him a different identity and helped him make a new life at an undisclosed location in the Southeast...
...former Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Don Meredith as Rowe, and will be completed within three weeks. But NBC has not yet decided when it will be aired. Said one Justice Department official of the controversy over Rowe: "It's unadulterated crap, all of it. He didn't shoot Liuzzo. He didn't kill a black. He didn't bomb the church...
...John Kennedy. Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Lee Harvey Ornald. Malcolm X. Diem, Nhu, George Lincoln Rockwell, Refect TrujilluHendrik Verwoerd, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reed and Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were among the best known...
...instrument of his zealotry. He exaggerated the domestic Communist menace while for years curiously neglecting organized crime. His men were swift to find the bodies of Andrew Goodman, James Chancy and Michael Schwerner after they were killed in Philadelphia, Miss., and to solve the Klan killing of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in Alabama; yet they seemed slow otherwise to enforce the cause of civil rights. When Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that Southern FBI offices were unsympathetic to blacks, Hoover called him "the most notorious liar in the country...