Word: mcdanal
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...miles away, Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, dressed in nightgown and slippers, was talking to a friend on the telephone. Her truck-driver husband was away on a night run. There were sounds of footsteps on the porch and men's voices demanding to be let in. She screamed for the friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn...
They threatened to return and bomb Mrs. McDanal's neat white house, or burn it down, "if we hear anything else." Then the neighbors piled into their 16 cars, having no more advice to dispense that night, and rode home to their beds...