Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entrance doors to the 1968 convention barricaded, too. As co-chairman of the Georgia Loyal National Democratic Delegation, he came to the convention as a member of a minor insurgent group. But the Loyal Democrats won the credentials away from another Georgia delegation, dominated by party regulars, including Lester Maddox...
Onetime Georgia Governor Lester Maddox no longer sells fried chicken; now he dishes out country ham. That about sums up the hokey singing-and-comedy act that Maddox, 61, tried out on patrons of Mr. P's Supper Club in Sanford, Fla. The man who in 1964 waved a pistol at blacks who tried to desegregate his Atlanta restaurant told a few corny jokes, played the harmonica and belted out Casey Jones and Dixie in a gravelly baritone. The crowd loved it. One reason, perhaps, was that Maddox's fellow songster and guitar accompanist was Bobby Lee Fears...
...Turner Joy and the USS Maddox, the two U.S. destroyers which invaded North Vietnamese waters in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, were on NSA assignment...
William G. Maddox '79, who is coordinating a used book and record sale for the farm workers in the union this week, said the support group hopes to raise between $500 and $1000 for the organizing drive...
...support group hopes students will donate books and records for the sale, Maddox added...