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Only five hours after he delivered this warning-and affirmation of faith in his country-Vernon Jordan, 44, president of the National Urban League and one of the nation's foremost black leaders, drove back to the Marriott Inn where he was staying in Fort Wayne, Ind. As he stepped from the fire-engine red Pontiac Grand Prix, a burst of rifle shots shattered the muggy night. Jordan slumped against the trunk of the car, then collapsed on the pavement, his head resting near the left taillight. He was alive, but he had been grievously wounded by two bullets...
Still police did not rule out the possibility that the shooting had a racist motivation. Indeed, Coleman told police that while she and Jordan were returning to "ELLS the Marriott Inn, three white youths in a car had taunted them. Police doubted that the youths had time enough to race to the motel and shoot Jordan...
Among the first suspects to be questioned by police in Fort Wayne was an unidentified white man who had made abusive comments about Jordan at the Marriott bar the night of the shooting. Police officials quickly concluded, however, that the man had nothing to do with the case. Next, police sought to question Jon Thompson Douglas, 40, a welder from Grabill, a small town about ten miles northeast of Fort Wayne. The morning after Jordan was shot, Allen County deputy sheriffs arrested Douglas for operating a motorcycle while drunk and confiscated three unloaded rifles, including a Remington .30-06, that...
...received no hint that he might be the target of violence in Fort Wayne. He had gone there to be the guest of honor at a $17.50-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the local Urban League. He arrived Wednesday afternoon, checked into ground-floor Room 180 at the Marriott and held a half-hour press conference at which he described Carter's presidency as "an Administration of promises made and promises unkept...
...handsome, two-story white frame house on tree-lined Lafayette Esplanade in a racially mixed neighborhood in south central Fort Wayne. For two hours or so, Coleman told police, they drank coffee and chatted. Shortly after 2 a.m., Coleman drove Jordan back to the Marriott, where he was gunned down...