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...young Negro, the young Attorney General and the young Southern Governor were central figures last week in a national drama. It was a drama of conflict and violence. It saw U.S. marshals and martial law in Alabama. It saw cops with police dogs on patrol in Mississippi. It was the drama of the Freedom Riders, and it represented a new and massive assault against segregation in the U.S. South...
...white mansion on South Perry Street, John Patterson and his family had finished an informal dinner of charcoal-broiled steaks on the terrace. The Governor was following the progress of the riot by telephone. When Public Safety Director Floyd Mann phoned that the mob was growing, Patterson declared martial law, ordered Adjutant General Henry Graham, a National Guard major general, to lead his troops to the church. Then Patterson called Bobby Kennedy to report that the Guard had gone into action, but that the general could not guarantee the protection of Martin Luther King...
...were entitled to their U.S. Army pay from their capture until their dishonorable discharges. In January 1954, while all 21 turncoats were still in Redland, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson ordered the Army to give them dishonorable discharges. Normally, such a discharge is given only by court-martial, not by administrative decree. The total amount of back pay due Bell, Cowart and Griggs as a result of last week's Supreme Court decision...
...their country." But like it or not, the law was clear. Said the court: "In the armed forces, as everywhere else, there are good men and rascals, courageous men and cowards, honest men and cheats. But a soldier who has not received punishment from a duly constituted court-martial is entitled to the statutory pay . . . however ignoble a soldier...
...normal but for the heavy guards at every intersection and the orders blaring over the radio from the headquarters of peppery little Lieut. General Chang Do Yung, 38, chief of staff of the 600,000-man ROK army, who now declared himself "chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee." Proclaiming martial law, General Chang ordered the Cabinet arrested, halted all civil air flights, banned political parties, forbade meetings and decreed censorship for the newspapers...