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...present, noting random instances of anti-Semitic atrocity. She mentions the Nazis only in anticipation, and millenium-old progroms accumulate a terribly immediate horror from the comparison. "The Germans were not alone in their fury." Finally, she narrates in stoical understand language the Mississippi murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and poses devastatingly the question: "Can we say/ Now we have heard enough? Can we say the history is done...
Sklar wrote his last play in 1946 and swore he'd never write another. But, says the program, he found the subject so provocative ("it simply demanded this form") that he set to work dramatizing the murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner...
...Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, who, along with 15 other local whites, last week was ordered to stand trial in a federal court on Sept. 26 in connection with the killing of the three rights workers. "Oh, yes," said King, "you're the one who had Schwerner and the other fel lows in jail?" "Yes, sir," said Price with a touch of pride...
Barred from the sidewalk, King held a memorial service in the street. "We all know this county, where Andrew Goodman, James Chancy and Michael Schwerner were brutally murdered," he began. Turning halfway toward Price, he said: "And I believe in my heart that the murderers are some where around me at this moment." "They're right behind you," chuckled a white onlooker, to roars of delight from fellow townsmen. Said King, "I'm not afraid of any man. Before I will be a slave, I will be dead in my grave." Shouted a chorus of whites...
...case of Jimmy Lee Jackson, the Justice Department should seek to prosecute his killer under Section 242, Title 18 of the U.S. Code of 1950. Those suspected of slaying Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were indicted under this law. But Section 242 alone is no remedy; it entails only a one year sentence, can be applied only against state officials, and the final decision still comes from a Southern jury...