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White Devil. When the first police did arrive, there followed an inane conversation between a sheriff's deputy, Major Marion M. Binning, and a tall, slender man, later identified as Samuel Upton, whom Binning took to be in charge. "Are you the spokesman for the white, Caucasian race?" asked Upton. "No." "Who is?" "I don't know." "Is he on his way?" "I guess he is." "We'll wait...
More police appeared and took up positions at either end of the street, where the demonstrators had parked three cars so as to block the intersections. A deputy approached Upton and his men-all dressed in somber, single-breasted suits and some wearing crimson bow ties-who were now lined up across one end of the street, and requested that the cars be moved. "You white devil," Upton shouted, "either you or I are going to die today!" Another cop moved to penetrate the line of blacks. Someone grabbed him. There was a scuffle, and then shots...
...equally unclear whether the blacks were armed; the police have recovered no weapons other than their own. Some police admit shooting at the blacks, and one theory is that the two officers who were killed were shot accidentally by fellow cops. More likely, once the fighting started some of Upton's men grabbed guns from the police, then turned the weapons on them. Both dead policemen, Deputy Ralph Hancock and Deputy DeWayne Wilder, were shot with police guns; so were Upton and Thomas Davis, who were also killed. Of the 31 injured, 14 were police. Twelve blacks were also...
Both blacks and whites are still puzzling over the background and intent of Upton's group. From Chicago, Elijah Muhammad, head of the Black Muslim movement, denied any knowledge of it. No one has any idea what the blacks had in mind. But their legacy is a senseless renewal of racial hatred in Baton Rouge...
...defender of private business interests, and only extreme New Dealers dared attack it. An early FDA bill calling for identification of product contents during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that the Wagner-Hatfield proposal, which called for guaranteed educational control of 25 per cent...