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Charge of Harassment. What particularly seemed to enrage the police at the Algiers Motel, according to the Negroes Hersey interviewed, was the presence of two young white prostitutes. Senak, said a witness, ripped the clothes off one with the barrel of his shotgun and ordered the other to undress before the officers. He demanded to know why they preferred Negroes as clients. "What's wrong with us, you nigger lovers?" Another cop then chimed in: "We're going to fill up the Detroit River with all you pimps and whores...
Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is about to sell the farm out from under them and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there until her father appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again...
...into bewilderment, then horror and panic. A priest appeared, thrust a rosary into Kennedy's hands, which closed on it. Someone cried: "He doesn't need a priest, for God's sake, he needs a doctor!" The cleric was shoved aside. A hatless young policeman rushed in carrying a shotgun. "We don't need guns! We need a doctor...
...what happens is that, after the assassination, this assassin rushes out of the rooming house and what does he do? He does a very amazing, unusual thing. He takes a suitcase and very carefully props it up in front of a store. And in this suitcase there is a shotgun, very carefully left. And what is on it is Mr. James Earl Ray's fingerprints...
There was a typically tragic progression to some deaths. Mrs. Hattie Johnson of Cincinnati was chatting with James Smith, a caretaker, at the doorway to a store when his shotgun discharged and killed her. Charged with manslaughter, he said youths approached to loot the store, and his gun went off in the scuffle. All involved were Negroes; yet rumors that Mrs. Johnson was killed by a "white honky cop" sparked a riot. Noel Wright, 30, a white University of Cincinnati graduate student, was yanked from his car, beaten and fatally stabbed while his wife was savaged by Negro girls...