Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flaw. On Feb. 28, 1961, Farmer Sam Thompson of Pearisburg spotted Ricky, a German shepherd, crouched over the mutilated carcass of a sheep. Furious. Thompson summoned a deputy sheriff to witness the sight, then blasted at Ricky with a 16-gauge shotgun. Bleeding, the dog loped away, turned up a bit later at the doorstep of his master, retired Mining Engineer James Laing, 61. Within the week, a Giles County court issued a warrant ordering that Laing be apprehended and brought before the court...
...moderator, Mr. Susskind tried to sustain the critical approach. "The movies represent a shotgun marriage of business and art," he jabbed, "in which art suffers. The power remains in the hands of the big studios, and they are more interested in stars, hits and money than in good films...
...unaware of or are unwilling to admit is that the system of oppression under which the black man in this country exists was established by and is maintained through the threat and actuality of physical violence. The means of keeping the black man in "his place" are varied: lynching, shotgun blasts, quiet murders, police brutality, and capital punishment. Every Negro in the South, as John Dollard once wrote, is under a kid of sentence of death. In Monroe, N.C. Robert F. Williams advocated meeting this white system of terror with Negro self-defense. What was the result? Federal intervention...
James Meredith knows what James Baldwin is writing about. Off for the holidays from the University of Mississippi campus, where he still suffers constant harassment from white students, Meredith last week visited Chicago-and scarcely had he arrived when he learned that several shotgun blasts had been fired at his father's home in Kosciusko, Miss...
Hazard's hopeless people, in the tradition of the desperate, have recently resorted to violence. At least two have been seriously wounded by shotgun blasts. Mine tipples have been dynamited or riddled with rifle fire. Railroad bridges were blown up. In the past three months, says a veteran mine operator. Hazard has experienced "the worst violence I've ever seen in the coal fields." The violence is not directed against management; neither is it against the United Mine Workers union...