Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups in Eugene had not requested help from Anita Bryant. One such organization, known as VOICE, announced that it would stick to political arguments and not raise issues of God and motherhood in its repeal efforts. "We are against any select group having their conduct protected," said VOICE Campaign Worker Michelle Barton...
...least in part, to a religious conversion that he underwent while in custody. He had been visited in prison, at the behest of one court-appointed psychiatrist, by a Pentecostalist known as "Sister Smith"-Ollie Smith, 58, a beautician who serves part time as a volunteer prison worker. According to in camera testimony obtained by the New York Daily News, the psychiatrist described Berkowitz as "ecstatic, radiant, quoting Scripture right and left" after their talks. He also said that Berkowitz saw the guilty plea as a way to confess his "sins" and to avoid stirring up his personal demons again...
Like a giant slice of orange rind, the scaffolding pulled away from the cement that had been laid the previous day, and hurtled to the ground. Said Katie Robinson, a worker's wife: "When the scaffold began to fall from one end, 12 or 15 men were trying to find a way off, and they walked back one way and then they turned around, and I thought they were going to try to jump. But then it all came down and the safety net wrapped around the men. I could see them all bundled up inside, and they fell...
Stretcher-bearers and emergency workers were confronted with tons of debris−steel, concrete and boards−piled 6 to 10 ft. high on the floor of the tower. "There was so much stuff on the ground you couldn't see the bodies," said Construction Worker Bill Hess. Rescuers worked frantically for six hours to pull apart the debris, but found no survivors...
Most of the dead workers had come from nearby West Virginia farms, and their families gathered that afternoon at a local firehouse, a drab concrete building that was serving as a makeshift morgue. One worker at the tower, Robert Steele, 35, lost ten members of his family−four brothers, three uncles and three cousins. Friends and relatives consoled each other as Red Cross workers called out the victims' names. A young pregnant woman, waiting to identify her husband's body, sobbed on her mother's shoulder. At dusk, small groups of workers and relatives gathered solemnly...