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...newly wed wife Jennifer to field a barrage of frantic calls from Carnahan, who finally asked the university police to confiscate Taborsky's notes. The university, concerned that Taborsky's recalcitrance might set a precedent, filed criminal charges, accusing him of grand theft of trade secrets. Says Noreen Segrest, the school's general counsel: "It is irrelevant to us who invented [the process...
...spent hours in the downtown Macon County Courthouse helping some 40 Negro would-be voters to register. That night, when he went to nearby Wilson's Standard Oil service station to buy gas and use the men's room, he got into an argument with Attendant Marvin Segrest, 67, with whom he had quarreled several times previously. Segrest went to a desk drawer, pulled out a gun, and fired twice. Younge fell dead with a .38 slug near his left...
...Segrest was arrested, and District Attorney Tom Young described him as a "very quiet type of man" who had no record of Negro baiting. Young insisted that the murder was "not a civil rights homicide," pointed out that Younge was holding a golf club in his hand when shot. Tuskegee students noisily disagreed; groups as large as 1,500 marched through Tuskegee singing freedom songs and demanding the death penalty for Segrest. Civil rights leaders asked Lyndon Johnson to send federal marshals to protect Negro lives and rights, and Mayor Charles M. Keever, calling the situation "very dangerous," said that...
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