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Johnson's activism has made for a turbulent personal life. In Montgomery, Johnson and his family were unwelcome at their neighborhood Baptist church and subjected to threatening letters and telephone calls. Two years ago, Johnson's son Johnny, 27, killed himself with a shotgun. Some friends thought the adopted Johnny's longstanding emotional problems could be traced to harassment by his Montgomery schoolmates...
...Berkowitz was to fancy as a source of the commands to kill. Carr, 64, a frail, grizzled man who operates a telephone answering service from his home and maintains an astonishing arsenal of guns (he said he has a .22 automatic, .32 revolver, .38 revolver, .30-06 rifle, .410 shotgun and .357 magnum), suspected that Berkowitz sent the anonymous threatening letters that complained about the howling of Carr's black Labrador retriever Harvey...
...witness to the agony of cancer, I am bewildered that Laetrile is banned [June 20]. Can it not be administered in conjunction with our presently prescribed treatments? What harm is one more pellet in our already shotgun approach to curing cancer...
...growing number of black leaders, including Chicago's Jesse Jackson and New York Mayoral Candidate Percy Sutton, are trying to organize blacks in community crusades against crime. Last week people in Harlem led police to two youths who had used a sawed-off shotgun to kill a taxi driver. Says Lewis Mitrano, assistant district attorney in Philadelphia: "The black community is increasingly supporting the efforts of police because it's the black community that suffers most from youth crime and violence. This attitude has done more to combat crime than all the federal funds that have gone into social projects...
...acre cotton and peanut farm in Vienna, Ga. (pronounced Vy-anna), that had been in the family for five generations. Before Jody, Vienna's most notable native son was Democratic Senator Walter George, who held his seat for 34 years; Powell has a hand-me-down shotgun that George once owned...