Word: scimitar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the possibility of a Communist conspiracy in the King murder, but has also complained bitterly about the sheriff's unusually strict guard over Ray. Some of his protests were dutifully echoed by Defense Detective Renfro Hays. Like good courthouse reporters anywhere, Roy Hamilton of the Memphis Press-Scimitar and Charles Edmundson of the Memphis Commercial Appeal printed the complaints...
...rancorous Memphis garbage strike that led to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. ended last week, but all was not peaceful. Negroes started picketing the two daily newspapers, the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar, in protest against their coverage of the strike. Handbills were distributed listing grievances against the papers. A boycott was mounted to prevent Negroes from buying the papers T placing ads in them. "They are racist papers," complained the strike's leader, the Rev. James Lawson. "They have attacked and vilified Martin Luther King. They have to share responsibility for his death...
...editors of the two papers both owned by Scripps-Howard, it is almost incomprehensible that they are the targets of such criticism. Ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregation in the schools they have urged upholding the law of the land. Press-Scimitar Editor Edward J. Meeman was a champion of Negro rights from the 1930s until he retired in the early '60s. Both current editors Frank Ahlgren of the Commercial Appeal and Charles Schneider of the Press-Scimitar, are members of the city's biracial commission, which has tried to smooth the way for peaceful...
Died. Edward J. Meeman, 77, editor from 1931 to 1962 of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, who championed the TVA against private power owners and spent 20 years fighting Memphis Political Boss Edward H. Crump ("May his machine be cast into the junk heap"), finally won the engagement in 1948 when the Press-Scimitar's backing, against Crump's bitter opposition, helped put Estes Kefauver in the Senate; of a heart attack; near Memphis...
Meltless Memory. Before the broadcast, the children talk most of all about the Wicked Witch of the West-and when they do, they quiver. "I'm scared of the witch," said a five-year-old girl. By the time the hideous chick with the black eyebrows and the scimitar nose appears on the screen, three-year-olds will whinny, "Mommy, I'm scared," while barely articulate one-year-olds chant "Scared! Scared...