Word: reeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Judge Hare addressed an allwhite, 18-member Selma grand jury investigating the March 9 murder of Boston's Rev. James J. Reeb. After the jury heard testimony from ten witnesses, Hare began his charge by reviewing Selma's problems for the past two years and attributing them all to the fact that a cabal of civil rights groups, the Justice Department and the Department of the Army had "selected Selma for assassination back in the fall...
...conspiring to destroy law and order and fomenting the racial strife that caused the death of his fellow preacher, James Reeb, King should now be indicted for murder...
...Reeb's death: I decry the eulogizing of any man, ordained or not, who has been killed while advancing the cause of mob rule in defiance...
...Whether Reeb's goals were right or wrong, it is still an American's right to travel where he wants, to speak what he believes, and to fight for what he feels is right, whether or not he happens to be a resident of the state where he travels. For, above all, we are Americans first and state citizens second, and should never be labeled "outsiders" in this country...
Protests. At Reeb's death, telegraph wires burned across the country with expressions of outrage. The A.F.L.C.I.O. was "appalled." The American Jewish Committee protested the "shameful exhibition of brutality." The United Steelworkers Union wired Governor Wallace, accusing him and his "storm troopers" of cold violence...