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Then, one night in nearby Marion, 50 state troopers and a band of rednecks routed 400 Negro demonstrators. In the fight, a young woodcutter named Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach; he died eight days later, after declaring that a state trooper had gunned...
Massive overdoses of barbiturates were the technique, and it was often the nurses who gave the injections. Children were fed a treat as well as a treatment: poison mixed with marmalade. Patients who resisted had stomach tubes forced down their throats, or were given lethal enemas. But many were literally killed with kindness by the motherly defendants, who spoon-fed them, urging them cheerfully to take their medicine. "They obeyed me," recalled Margarete Tunkowski, 54, charged with 200 murders, "because I always performed my duty with love...
...clay soil outside Marion, Ala. One night last month Jackson, 26, joined a Negro demonstration in Marion. When cops began breaking it up, he and some other Negroes sought refuge in a cafe. State police went in after them. In the melee Jackson was shot in the stomach, and died eight days later...
Jimmy Lee Jackson was shot in the stomach two weeks ago; he died last Friday morning. His death will probably prove, for the ten thousandth time, that it is not a crime for a white man to kill a Negro (or a civil rights worker) in the Deep South...
...came in saying, 'If you don't live here, get out.' Two of them hit me on my head. They knocked me down and started beating me on the floor." Jackson attacked the men who were beating his mother, and one of the troopers fired a revolver into his stomach. The wounded man fled from the cafe, ran half a block, and was overtaken and beaten in front of the post office. He died in a Selma hospital...