Word: murderously
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After the 1964 nightrider slaying of Lemuel Penn, a Negro educator from Washington, D.C., a Georgia jury wasted little time acquitting Klansmen Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers of murder. Despite the verdict, the Justice Department went ahead and built its own case by dusting off an obscure anticonspiracy law dating back to Reconstruction days. Last week, in the small U.S. District Court in Athens, Ga., that law brought Sims and Myers to trial...
...United States." Though the law was intended to encourage Negro voting, the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, April 8) recently opened the way for the trial by interpreting it to cover any attempt to block a citizen's right to interstate travel; at the time of his murder, Penn, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, was driving home after training at Fort Benning...
From other witnesses, Buford elicited testimony to show that the murder was the climax of "a broader conspiracy" among the three defendants and other Klansmen: they plotted to terrorize Negroes throughout the Athens area. Earlier in 1964, police officials testified, Sims pistol-whipped an elderly Negro. A Negro garage attendant told of being set upon at about the same time by 18 hooded Klansmen and beaten with a strap by one whom he made out to be Sims. On another occasion, a witness related, shots were fired at a Negro apartment building from three carloads of whites, Turner and Myers...
Guns, Revolvers & Clubs. Even after the Penn murder, a group of Athens rowdies traveled to nearby Taliaferro County, where they beat and shot at a one-legged Negro farmer, after halting his car on a country road. Taliaferro Sheriff Milton Moore identified Sims and Myers as two of the whites, and the jury was shown weapons seized from their cars: six sawed-off shotguns, four .38-cal. revolvers, a .22-cal. rifle, a length of heavy chain, and several wooden clubs bearing carved swastikas or the letters...
...Genet's imagination. Genet makes the erotically impossible possible. He creates nuns in black lace panties, bare-breasted prostitutes with the flowing tails of ponies. But the whores, pimps, sadists and lesbians who people his plays are also his army of revenge marshaled against the world. The ritual murder of a white woman in The Blacks is a Negro act only insofar as it contains the death wish of the outcast for the society that excludes...