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...defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested him to take a seat elsewhere; and the two key prosecution witnesses-Negro Leroy Moton, 20, who was riding in the car with Viola Liuzzo on the night of the murder, and FBI Informer Gary Thomas Rowe, 34, who was in the car with the accused killers...
Overcome. Leroy Moton took the stand and told how he and Mrs. Liuzzo got into the Liuzzo car on March 25 and left Selma just after 7:30 p.m. At about 8 o'clock, Moton was "fiddling with the radio dial, and she was humming We Shall Overcome,'" when "a car pulled up beside us and shot into the car two or three times." When the car came to a stop down the road, Moton shut off the ignition, turned off the lights and waited for five minutes. Soon "a car came back," shone its lights...
...four cruised around Selma, Rowe said, and finding no outlet for Klansmanship, headed out on Highway 80. On the highway, the Klansmen spotted Mrs. Liuzzo driving a car in which the only passenger was a Negro youth, Leroy Moton...
...cast is practically the same as that which held sway on Broadway for almost a solid year in '42. Tod Duncan acts and sings a human, impressive Porgy, and Etta Moton, while lacking some of the physical characteristics needed to show Boss as the walking bundle of sex the composer intended her to be, has the voice and acting ability to make up for her weaknesses...
Died. Dr. Robert Russa Moton, 72, famed Negro educator, great & good friend of Booker T. Washington, whom he succeeded (1915) as president of Tuskegee Institute; exactly five years after his retirement; in Capahosic, Va. He annually compiled national lynching figures, widely publicized them. His score...