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Federal and county grand juries had investigated the killings, but no criminal charges were filed against anyone. Ordinarily that would have ended matters. But not for Constance Slaughter, 35, the first black woman to graduate from the University of Mississippi Law School. Out of her determined investigation came the civil suit demanding $13.8 million from Mississippi, the city of Jackson and the 43 city police and highway patrolmen for wrongful deaths and injuries...
...show that there had been indiscriminate gunfire, Connie Slaughter and other attorneys from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law established in court that at least 200 shots were fired during the 29-second barrage. All 43 lawmen admitted that they had fired; only three claimed to have seen any sign of the third-floor sniper who supposedly prompted the fusillade. But although the dead and most of the wounded were on the ground, none of the patrolmen would admit having aimed below the third floor of the dormitory...
Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee approved the egg industry adjustment act, which would require each producer to slaughter a percentage of his hens. The bloodletting could be ordered only after eggs had sold below the cost of production for three straight months, and only upon approval by two-thirds of the nation's producers in a referendum. Compliance would be enforced with fines of up to $5,000. Such drastic measures are warranted, argues Committee Chairman Herman Talmadge of Georgia, to avoid a rash of chicken-farm bankruptcies. "They have been selling eggs below the cost of production...
...Shelf. The splendid set pieces of the book explain the intricate classic art of building a log cabin, notch by hand-hewn notch, the principles of stone chimney construction, the shingles split from the white oak log with wedges, go-devil, maul and froe. And how to feed up, slaughter, dress out, pepper cure, smoke, cook and eat a hog, with two opinions about what one does with the ears, which are gristly. Not to mention a dissertation on moonshining as a fine art-by men who practiced it well...
WILLIAM CODY killed 4280 buffalo in 1868, thus managing at the same time to feed the white men who were running a railroad through the plains and deprived the Plains Indians of their food supply. The buffalo slaughter wasn't the first atrocity committed by Europeans against the native American. When you consider the French wars against the Indians in New York and Canada, and Lord Jeffrey Amherst's gift of smallpox-infested blankets to his Indian friends, it was not the greatest. In fact, in Arthur Kopit's Indians Buffalo Bill even shows remorse for the slaughter. "I didn...