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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Sherod, 37, an unemployed Negro laborer, piled his wife and nine children, aged two to 18, into his 1958 secondhand Buick. Though his license had been revoked, Sherod drove recklessly from their tenement flat in Jersey City to a restaurant in Newark, N.J., where his wife worked as a waitress. There, Sherod got into a drunken argument with his wife, hustled the children out to the car. Moments later, he returned wielding a knife, threatened his wife and hit her, forced her to accompany him to the car. Said Mrs. Sherod's sister, who also worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Death in the Families | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

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