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...lady pictured in your July 4 issue with President Tubman of Liberia is Mrs. Sophia Dunbar Cooper, ex-wife of Liberia's Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce. We are enclosing a photo of Mrs. Tubman...
Liberia's diplomatic set had gathered at the Executive Mansion to celebrate President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening...
...cops who overpowered the gunman had no trouble identifying him: he was a ballistics specialist on the force before being sacked last year. Dunbar was also, it seemed, a member of the Independent True Whig Party, which lost out to Tubman's True Whig Party in the elections last month. Police rounded up 28 opposition-party stalwarts and set out to find David Coleman, their national chairman. At Coleman's rubber farm 30 miles from Monrovia, the posse was greeted with a volley of machine-gun fire. Two of the expedition were killed, four others wounded. The cops...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...
After a month's tour of the U.S., Liberia's popular, Bible-quoting 18th President, William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 58, sailed from Manhattan for Haiti. From there he will proceed to Jamaica before heading home for West Africa. While in the U.S., he picked up nine honorary degrees, was a White House guest of President Eisenhower, highlighted his visit with a foray into Georgia, the homeland of his ancestors. In Atlanta, he was welcomed by the city's white mayor but failed to meet the man who had invited him to the state, Governor Herman Talmadge...