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...began one hot July night in 1963. Two white attendants at the Mo-Jo gas station, just outside Port St. Joe, were robbed, taken into the woods, told to lie down and then shot dead. Police learned that earlier in the evening a group of black men and women had been arguing with the attendants about using a whites-only restroom. Pitts and Lee, who were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Twelve Years to Justice | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...Raiford. The state gave them $100 each. Pitts said he harbored "bitterness" but not "hatred." Said Lee just before he got out: "I won't believe it until I'm 300 miles away from this place." Back at Port St. Joe, the present owner of the Mo-Jo said, "If they were innocent, they never would have been convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Twelve Years to Justice | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

Invitaiton from the Academy were originally sent to Kuo Mo-Jo, head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese responded favorably to the invitation in the fail and the trip was arranged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Hosts Chinese Group: | 12/5/1972 | See Source »

...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Washburn Prize for 1957-58 to David Ted Roy '59 for his thesis entitled, "Kuo Mo-Jo: The Pre-Marxist Stage." The Prize is the income from the fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives Prizes to Five From Washburn, Conant Funds | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...knew what had been said. The speech was in Chinese. It might just as well have been in Urdu. To the delegates it was important only that it had been made by a Communist, China's Kuo Mo-jo.* The seekers after "peace"-of the Soviet-Russian variety-perfectly exemplified a lesson of the great Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: to an artificial stimulus, they had made a conditioned response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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