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...Viola Liuzzo drove away from the red light, the four men followed in their car. At one point, "Gene Thomas reached over and got his revolver out from between the seats and said, 'Get your pistols, cousins,' and I drew my pistol...
Trujillo's end came in 1961 when four gunmen intercepted his car on a lonely road outside the capital and riddled him with shotgun and pistol fire. In the four years since, the Dominican Republic has suffered four coups and five changes of government, trying to find its way out of the political vacuum created by Trujillo's death. Democracy is still hardly more than a word in a land that has never known any law save force...
Died. Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones, 53, antic bandleader of the pistol-popping, whistle-shrieking, Bronx-cheering City Slickers during the 1940s and '50s, a square-jawed musical clown with airplane eyebrows and wildly checked suits, who was an unknown drummer when he formed the Slickers in 1942 and led them to success with rowdy parodies of sentimental hits (Black Magic, Cocktails for Two) until rock 'n' roll drowned him out in 1962; of emphysema; in Los Angeles...
Struggle with a Pistol. The Klan car trailed Mrs. Liuzzo's for about 20 miles. Finally, as it sped past, the man sitting next to Rowe fired the shots that killed the woman...
...this time, according to Rowe, he was under the impression that his companions intended only to frighten their victims or, at worst, to beat them up. When the killer began firing at Mrs. Liuzzo, Rowe struggled with his own pistol, but could not get it out of its holster in time, he told the jury. When the three tried-and-true Klansmen who were riding with him finally come to trial, Rowe will be the only eyewitness against them. The Negro youth in the car with Mrs. Liuzzo has said that he would have difficulty identifying the occupants...