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Passing two highway patrol cars that had stopped a Volkswagen bus, Thomas slowed, then sped up. When Rowe argued again for turning back, Thomas replied, "I done told you, Baby Brother, you're in the big time now. We're gonna take that automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: The Trial | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...Miss." Thomas gained on Mrs. Liuzzo. "As we got almost even, Wilkins said, 'Give it some gas.' Gene sped up a little bit and put our auto immediately beside the driver. Wilkins put his arm out of the window approximately elbow distance, and just as we got even with the front window, there was the lady driving the automobile and she turned and looked around directly facing the automobile we were in. She looked directly at us. Just as she looked at us, Wilkins fired two shots through the window of the front of the auto mobile. Gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: The Trial | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

Struggle with a Pistol. The Klan car trailed Mrs. Liuzzo's for about 20 miles. Finally, as it sped past, the man sitting next to Rowe fired the shots that killed the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Informer | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...forced her to accompany him to the car. Said Mrs. Sherod's sister, who also worked in the restaurant: "He said he was going to kill the whole family and then come back and cut our throats." Half an hour later, Sherod, with his family in the car, sped down a highway, swerved across several lanes into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into a tractor truck. The truck driver and his helper were injured. Sherod and two of his children were seriously hurt. Sherod's wife and seven youngsters were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Death in the Families | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...other side of the world from Hanoi, Soviet jets also sped across the skies. Only 500 feet above the rooftops of West Berlin whooshed dozens of supersonic MIGs. They fired salvos of blanks from their cannon, shattered the sound barrier once every seven minutes, shook windows, walls, nerves and eardrums all over town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: A Simple Signpost | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

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