- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Swing defends police
- Creator:
- Woodall, Martha
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Daily News
- Date of Original:
- 1979-11-05
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- clippings (information artifacts)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This November 5, 1979, article by Martha Woodall of the Greensboro Record reports on Greensboro Police Chief W.E. Swing's defense of his department's actions related to the shooting of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. Swing states that officers had minimized their presence in order to keep from instigating "an incident" after having been warned by rally organizers to stay away. He also says that cars were on the way to the area, but that the shootings began before they were scheduled to arrive. Swing offers his opinion that the surveillance officers following the KKK members were not initially aware that the Klansmen were armed, and makes no comment on how a group of KKK members were able to escape without being intercepted, citing the ongoing investigation.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/140
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Original Collection:
- CRG
Misc. Coll. -- James A. Armfield Papers - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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