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Last week in Florence, the trial of nine state highway patrolmen on federal charges of civil rights violations connected with the shooting ended after eight days. The nine were singled out after an FBI investigation of the case. Defense and prosecution testimony produced deeply conflicting versions of the violence. The disturbances were touched off by the refusal of a white bowling alley to admit Negroes. This led to demonstrations by students at South Carolina State College and adjacent Claflin College, both predominantly Negro institutions. Three nights of rioting, arson and sniping followed, and the National Guard was called...
...Warning. Police witnesses said that 66 highway patrolmen were attacked by a "thundering" mob of 150 to 200 State College students near the campus. The students threw rocks, bottles and other objects and, said some cops, fired guns. Only then did the police open fire. Testified Police Captain Jesse Spell: "I am positive that we couldn't have stopped the group if we hadn't fired...
...back up these men." Referring to a SNCC organizer who had been in Orangeburg during the incident, Taylor told the jury to "show our disapproval of militants coming into South Carolina and inciting students." After less than an hour and a half, the jury decided that the highway patrolmen had only done what was expected of them, and found all nine innocent...
About 200 National Guardsmen were in the city Thursday, along with local and county officers and state highway patrolmen...
...patrolmen were ordered inside of Memorial Hall to receive instructions. Fifteen minutes later, the police formed a long double line at the west door of Mem Hall. Shortly before five, an officer gave the order to march, and the people marched into the Yard behind the buses carrying State Police...