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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE POOR AMIDST PROSPERITY | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Alabama Jury Acquits Slayer of ETS Student | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: ALABAMA Death in the Black Belt | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: ALABAMA Death in the Black Belt | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trigger of Hate | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

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