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...year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen to pepper the pants of any welfare worker who wants to check up on just how much he possesses...
Morrisroe, critically wounded by a second shotgun blast seconds after Daniels was slain, is under treatment in a Chicago hospital and was unable to appear a court as a witness. The defense claimed that the priest also was armed with a gun. Officers, however, found no weapon at the scene of the shooting except the shotgun which Coleman used...
Housewife Viola Liuzzo was gunned down last March as she drove down U.S. 80 to pick up Selma-to-Montgomery marchers. There, too, last week shotgun blasts killed a 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire and critically wounded a Catholic priest on a street in Hayneville (pop. 800). Both were civil rights workers...
Standing near the doorway was Tom Coleman, 55, a state highway engineer and part-time deputy sheriff, who had come to investigate the owner's complaint that the rights workers were causing a disturbance. Coleman carried a .12gauge automatic shotgun. According to one of the girls, Ruby Sales, 20, Coleman shouted at them as they approached the store: "Get off my goddam property before I blow your goddam brains out, you black bastards!" With that, she said, he opened fire...
...crowd grew, Minikus' partner radioed for help and Minikus drew his revolver. Then, the officer reported later, Frye jumped in front of him and shouted, "Go ahead, kill me!" A backup patrolman arrived and, with shotgun at the ready, held the crowd at bay while Minikus and his partner hustled Frye, a brother and their mother off to the station. Frye later pleaded guilty to drunken driving; his brother pleaded guilty to battery and interfering with officers; but their mother pleaded not guilty to a charge of interfering with an officer...