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Buddy Cochran held
for grand jury action
AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) —
Buddy Cochran was bound over
to a grand jury Wednesday on
eight counts of aggravated as
sault with an automobile at a Ku
Klux Klan rally in President
Carter’s home town of Plains
July 2.
One charge of aggravated as
sault was dropped Wednesday
when testimony before State
Court Judge George Ellis Jr.
showed Gene Wiggins Jr., 10, of
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AMERICUS, GA.—Buddy Cochran, who is accused of running his car into the speaker’s
platform at a July 1 K.K.K. rally in Plains, Ga., walks into the chourhouse in Americus.
The hearing is an attempt by Cochran’s lawyers to get Justice of the Peace J.W. Sothwell
removed from the case. Southwell had set bail for Cochran at $210,000 or SIO,OOO per count.
(AP)
Mrs. King says film
judgment is premature
ATLANTA (AP) - Although
several civil rights leaders have
criticized an unfinished film
about the late Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., his widow, Co
retta Scott King, says judgment
at present is premature.
“There have been many
changes during the filming
process of ‘King,’ and there will
be many during the editing
process,” Mrs. King said in a
statement issued through a
spokesman Wednesday.
However, several associates
of the slain civil rights leader
said the film is distorted and
should be sharply revised, and
urged supporters to oppose its
production, scheduled to be
aired on NBC early next year.
The Rev. Hosea Williams, a
former King aide, said the film
“defamed” the slain civil rights
leader.
“The most damaging thing
they have about the whole mov
ie is they have a white man
leading Martin Luther King Jr.
around by the nose,” said Wil
liams, a member of the Georgia
House of Representatives.
Tyrone Brooks, a spokesman
for the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, said
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Americus was injured after the
sportscar plowed through a
crowd and rammed into the
speakers’s platform at the ral
ly, injuring 29 other persons.
Meanwhile, Dist. Atty. Claude
Morris said he was “holding” 12
other counts of aggravated
assault. He said those com
plaints are signed by persons
living outside Sumter County,
and he may bring them before
the grand jury when it convenes
black leaders were concerned
that the roles of the Rev. Jesse
Jackson of Chicago and the
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who
succeeded King as head of the
SCLC, were downplayed and in
accurate.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, act
ing president of the SCLC, said
he and Mrs. King were worried
about the film’s accuracy, and
had suggested changes.
Lowery also said black
writers, producers and direc-
Black fraternity
honors Dr. King
ATLANTA (AP) - Dr. Mar
tin Luther King Jr. and former
U.S. Transportation Secretary
William Coleman have been
presented awards by Alpha Phi
Alpha, the nation’s largest
black fraternity.
Coretta Scott King accepted
the Paul Robeson award for her
late husband, and Coleman, a
Philadelphia lawyer, received
the Alpha Award of Merit from
the group as it wound up its
convention Wednesday night.
on Aug. 22.
Earlier Wednesday, Superior
Court Judge William F. Blanks
reduced Cochran’s bond from
$210,000 to $50,000. Cochran, a
tractor mechanic, was returned
to the Sumter County jail.
Ellis sat in for Justice of the
Peace John Southwell in
Wednesday’s later hearing.
Southwell disqualified himself
from the case Tuesday. Last
month, he said the crash was
tors should be hired to work on
the project.
“A film about the black com
munity ought to involve the
black community,” he said.
Mrs. King said in her state
ment: “No one has seen
(scriptwriter) Abby Mann’s
film ‘King’ in its entirety be
cause the film has not been done
in the first cut...‘King’ is a
drama and not a documentary,
and therefore it should be
judged as such.”
The fraternity’s general pres
ident, James R. Williams of
Akron, Ohio, also presented
awards to two business leaders
— Frank Borman and Thomas
K. Edenfield.
Borman, the chief executive
of Eastern Airlines, was given
the Equal Opportunity Award
and Edenfield, a vice president
of General Electric Co., re
ceived Alpha’s Recognition
Award.
“the most uncalled-for thing
I’ve ever had run through my
office.”
During testimony before Ellis
Wednesday, Thomas Holloway
of Americus told the court he
saw the sleek car push its way
through the crowd and crash
into the speakers’ stand.
“I saw state patrolmen pull
Cochran from the car,” Hollo
way said. “I saw him taken out
of the car by an officer, hand
cuffed and placed in a squad car
and driven off toward Ame
ricus.”
Another witness, Al Stock, 28,
of Ellaville, said he and his wife
were struck by Cochran’s car
and wound up on top of it. “I
threw my wife off and rolled off
myself,” he said.
Stock told the court his wife
had “a broken leg and was there
in the hospital in Americus in
traction for nine days and then
they put a cast on her.”
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Dayton firemen are shown at the scene of a reported
house fire on the city’s east side Wednesday evening.
Although it turned out to be a false alarm, it marked the
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 11,1977
Firemen return to job
first response to an alarm since Monday morning when
the smoke eaters walked out after contract talks with the
city bogged down. (AP)