Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTON, MISS. A shotgun blast struck five Negroes as they left a voter-registration meeting. None were seriously hurt. A white service station attendant was charged with the shooting...
...sticks and jabbing with electric cattle prods, some 50 Alabama state troopers drove more than 300 Negro demonstrators from the lawn of Etowah County Courthouse. The Negroes had gathered to protest the arrest of 396 demonstrators during a freedom march on segregated downtown stores the day before. Later a shotgun blast slammed into a state patrol car as it cruised a Negro section of the city. The troopers inside were not injured...
...hospital in Winston-Salem, 20 miles away. State troopers had joined Lexington police and firemen by then. Using fire hoses, they drove away the crowd. Next day seven young Lexington Negroes and twelve whites were arrested. Police said the Negroes were armed with a zip gun, a shotgun and a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle...
...ville," express fervent approval of everything from a girl to a chopper with the word"outstandin'." Top-ranking visitors often hitch rides on their flights to get in a few personal licks at the Viet Cong. Brigadier General Joseph Stilwell Jr., son of "Vinegar Joe," frequently rides shotgun in Slavich's own chopper. Once, with Stilwell aboard, Slavich had to make an emergency landing in a Red-infested area. "I was scared to death," said Slavich. "I'm glad the Viet Cong didn't come along, because I know damn well that General Stilwell would have...
...shotgun approach has not worked, and it will not work. Integration cannot be solved with injunctions, troops or demonstrations. Men cannot be forced to change their minds. The human heart cannot be beaten into shape...