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...covered the riots, marches and other news in Los Angeles, Detroit, Birmingham, Jackson, Miss., and Danville, Va. Five years ago in Harlem, where he was born in 1938, a brick slammed into Terry's chest and left him gasping on the pavement. In 1963, he was with Medgar Evers the night before Evers was killed at his home in Jackson. For the past 22 months, Terry has been in our Saigon bureau, reporting the war in Viet Nam. Yet of all his assignments, says Terry, "the most fascinating - and in some ways frustrating - was reporting the new black militancy...
...shadows around this house at night," he says. The house is also equipped with three Remington riot guns, one for the use of guests. Huie, a crack shot, also has a riot gun fastened to the front seat of his car. "I try to be prudent, remembering how Medgar Evers was murdered," he says, referring to the Mississippi civil rights leader who was shot in the back while returning home one night...
...want to go to Washington to fight for more jobs, better schools, more federal money for all our people," pledged Charles Evers, as he stumped his Mississippi district seeking its congressional seat. Carrying his fight to the people via TV, the brother of murdered Medgar Evers insisted: "I want to represent all the people of Mississippi." But the face on the tube was black, and in deepest Dixie, Evers was defeating himself. The votes came flooding in last week to a patently predictable...
...husband made it as close as Arlington [National Cemetery]," Medgar Evers' widow Myrlie said in Mississippi last week. "Maybe Charles will go all the way to Washington...
That attraction didn't take hold in The Times They are A-Changin'. Dylan's songs hadn't broken out of the coal mines ("Hollis Brown"), the transatlantic love ("Boots of Spanish Leather"), the simple, indignant protests (Medgar Evers's death). Although there was a diamond highway with nobody on it, he held to the crowded folk road, the old-style rambling around. On the back of the album, however, in "11 Outlined Epitaphs" he announced the passing of that earlier Bob Dylan. Guthrie was dead. Dylan was free, "without ghosts/by my side/ t betray my childishness/ t leadeth...