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Kenya. Dr. Werthessen, from San Antonio's Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, made an aerial trip to Kibwezi, on Kenya's equatorial highlands. There he joined four of Hoi-man's associates, led by Dr. Henry C. McGill Jr., on the happy hunting grounds of the dog-faced baboon (Papio anubis). They hired a trapper with native bushwhackers to collect baboons...
...year-old Mayor William B. Hartsfield did not need to wait for his police to act before he knew the real criminals: "Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of these cross burners and dynamiters who sneak about in the dark." Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish to take the law into their own hands...
...Ralph McGill, the Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, described the incident as a "harvest of defiance of courts and the encouragement of citizens to defy the law on the part of many Southern politicians." He warned that "it is not possible to preach lawlessness and then restrict it. To be sure, no one said go bomb a Jewish Temple or a school. But let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish to take the law into their hands...
...overt act of this and other bombings in the South during recent months is a product of two trends. One, as McGill and others point out, is the high-minded, quasi-legal defiance of the Supreme Court decisions by Southern political leaders. Their actions lead to violent defiance of law and order by those who lack the intelligence to act in a legal manner. As McGill observed, "You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story.... When the wolves of hate are loosed...
...McGill ended his first pronouncement against the bombers with these words: "For a long time now it has been needful for all Americans to stand up and be counted on the side of law, and the due process of law--even when to do so goes against personal beliefs and emotions. It is late. But there is yet time...