Monthly News Headlines: “After murdering his wife and mother in their homes, a former alter-boy and Eagle Scout perched atop a 27-story tower at the University of Texas, and killed 14 people, wounding 32 others. In Chicago, 4,000 National Guardsmen were called in to deal with shootings between police and Negro snipers. In Cleveland, a young Black mother was killed by police, triggering a series of riots.” Sound familiar? No this wasn’t just on the news… it was the summer of 1966.
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