Word: liuzzo
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Last March 26, Rowe was one of four men arrested in connection with the senseless highway slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, 39, a Detroit white woman who had gone to Alabama for the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery...
...applaud the President's high purpose and sympathize with his anger, but I deplore his mentioning in a news conference the names of the four suspects in the Alabama murder of Mrs. Liuzzo [April 2]. The right of the accused to their own day in court, represented by counsel, is at least as important as the right to assemble and petition or the right to vote. Legal guilt must be proved in a courtroom, not announced from a speaker's platform...
...Secret Six." Such groups were held responsible for the mutilation and murder of three civil rights workers who were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi last June, for the killing of Washington, D.C., Educator Lemuel Penn in Georgia last July, and for the death of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in Selma last month...
...some peculiar reason seem to be rural service-station attendants. Most members, in any case, are deluded rednecks whose only skill is sharpshooting. That the FBI has infiltrated deeply into their ranks is indicated by the speed with which agents rounded up the four suspected killers of Mrs. Liuzzo...
Crushing the Klan is tougher than infiltrating it. Local Southern juries ordinarily let Klansmen off no matter what the accusation. The only federal charge that can be leveled in most cases-such as in the Liuzzo murder-deals with "denying the civil rights" of the victim, and the maximum penalty for the crime is only ten years in prison. Even though Congress might now enact legislation outlawing the Klan, the deeper problem is that the law alone can never erase the Klan mentality...