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Married. Orville Enoch Hodge, 60, former Illinois state auditor and gubernatorial hopeful who in 1956 went to jail for embezzling $1,450,000 in public funds, was paroled in 1963 to make a new life as an Oldsmobile salesman; and Viola Coombs, 61, a home-town secretary; both for the second time; in Granite City...
Housewife Viola Liuzzo was gunned down last March as she drove down U.S. 80 to pick up Selma-to-Montgomery marchers. There, too, last week shotgun blasts killed a 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire and critically wounded a Catholic priest on a street in Hayneville (pop. 800). Both were civil rights workers...
Died. Matthew Hobson Murphy Jr., 51, Alabama attorney and self-styled "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan who last May defended Collie Leroy Wilkins, one of the three Klansmen charged with the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; near Tuscaloosa...
...days reported 647 Negro enrollments, Sumter was dropped. Alabama's Dallas County, home of Selma and of Sheriff Jim Clark, was a surefire candidate for the list. Another notorious "dead-end county," in Justice Department parlance, was Alabama's Lowndes, where a white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, was murdered last spring-and where, until March, not a single Negro was registered. Top priority went to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish...
...Viola Liuzzo drove away from the red light, the four men followed in their car. At one point, "Gene Thomas reached over and got his revolver out from between the seats and said, 'Get your pistols, cousins,' and I drew my pistol...