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Aurtusta Vol. 4 Black Leaders See Conspiracy in Shooting Mrs. Martin Luther King A 23-year-old Black man who said he was sent to Atlanta on a mission “and it's partly accomplished” was ordered held for a grand jury on murder charges Monday in the slaying of Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. Short, boyish-looking Marcus Wayne Chenault of Dayton, Ohio, said during a 15-minute arraignment in City Court: “My name is Servant Jacob. I’m a Hebrew. I was sent here on a purpose and it’s partly accomplished.” He admitted carrying two pistols into Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church Sunday and when asked if he shot anyone Chenault replied, “I assume that I shot someone.” Judge E.T. Brock ordered him bound over to the Fulton County grand jury on two counts of murder in the deaths of Mrs. King and a church deacon, Edward Boykin, 69, and a charge of aggravated assault in the wounding of another member of the church. The shootings erupted during church services Sunday, shortly after 11 a.m., and scattered about SOO members of the congregation in panic. Deacon James Kemp of The Ebenezer Baptist Church told the News-Review by telephone Sunday that shortly after the services started he (Chenault) just got up and started shooting. “We caught him before he got out of the church. He had two guns. He emptied both of them. And after he emptied them, he continued to snap. Sijr\ / t’dikMPRMFMi a \IWK.r WL JL ittM w- 4 rtMm <£» ™ ?■ * --■ -•■<■ H _ rW’’*^''!-■* U -fc-BL. ® "*'fl i. P nk. ini - • ; iv JHHMwMW o Mr* Ek ' w ' KTb" * PtjW ’3^ l V r The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has selected what its membership of more than 100 publishers consider to be the top 50 national Black NEWSMAKERS OF THE YEAR. Twenty-one of them are shown above. Top row, left to right: Tom Bradley who was elected Mayor of Los Angeles, Congressman Louis Stokes of Cleveland who headed the Congressional Black Caucus last year. Symbolically, he represents all the Black Congressmen as Newsmakers. Hon. Damon J. Keith, federal judge for the Eastern District of Michigan for his $4 million decision against Detroit; Hank Aaron, homerun king; Mayor Maynard Jackson who was elected mayor of Atlanta; Mayor Coleman A. Young elected mayor of Detroit; Dr. Leon H. Sullivan secured funds for Continuation of his OIC; Second Row: H.R. Crawford, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for housing management; Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP; Dr. Gloria E.A. Toote, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for equal opportunity; Commissioner Benjamin Hooks of the Federal Communications Commission; Vonetta McGee for starring in Shaft in Africa; Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League; Jesse Hill, Jr., who was elected president of the Atlanta Life, also heads the Atlanta Inquirer; Third Row: State Senator Mervyn Dymally of California; Mayor Doris Davis of Compton, Calif.; Willie L. Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the California Assembly; H. Naylor Fitzhugh, vice president of Pepsi-Cola; Col. T.D. McNeal, president of the Board of Police Commissioners of St. Louis, Mo.; Joseph W.B. Clark, director of Public Safety, St Louis, Mo., Dr. Katheryn Favors, assistant superintendent of schools Berkley, Calif. I | NATIONAL BLACK NCWt SERVICE ’ MEMBER illite*' ’ 4 If rOw * J '4-> -v 9HM ■ v - Y << o Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. with son, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,’ and wife, Coretta, in 1958. • • After we saw that he was out of bullets, we caught him.” One woman nearby said she heard Chenault plead, “Don’t hit me. Please don’t hit me. They did it to me in the Army.” The choir was singing the Lord’s Prayer. The Reverend Clavin Morris, who was presiding over the service said Chenault stood up and shouted, “You must stop this. I’m tired of all this.” Brock refused to allow bond for Chenault. His attorney entered pleas of no contest to all of the charges, but Brock refused to accept them and instead entered innocent pleas. P.O. Box 953 The brief arraignment took place under tight security at Atlanta Police headquarters. Chenault, dressed in a light grey suit with a blue shirt, broke into a grin as he entered the courtroom accompanied by his attorney and detectives. Randy Bacote, a Black Atlanta attorney who represented Chenault, told newsmen after the hearing that Chenault “belives he is Jacob in person” and that “his god” sent him on a mission to Atlanta. The mission, Bacote said, “was to confront Martin Luther King, Sr.,” but he added that Chenault “stated THE PEOPLE’S PAPER that he was not able to do tliat because Mr. King was seated on another side of the church.” Bacote explained that “the connotation I’m putting on ’confrontation’ means he (Chenault) wanted to see him I can't determine what he had in his mind.” The attorney also said that by calling himself a Hebrew, C henault was describing himself as “a Black follower of the God of Jacob, as distinguished from the Jew.” He said Chenault “no longer recognizes his family in Dayton. He says he is now serving Jacob, and being a servant of Jacob, he has no Augusta. Georgia earthly parents.” Bacote, wearing a dark brown suit with his hair shaved close to his head, said he had not determined what line of defense he would use. and would not comment when asked if the plea might be temporary insanity. Chenault was identified as the assailant during the arraignment hearing by the Rev. Calvin Morris, who was on the pulpit when the firing began. “Can you see the person in the courtroom?” he was asked. “I do, sir,” Morris replied in a calm voice “This gentleman here.” The only other witness was Police Sgt. Berlyn Compton, who said that when he arrived at the church, bystanders were restraining Chenault. Compton said in an interview that despite speculation of a conspiracy in the skyings, “thus far, there is nothing to lead us to believe he acted in concert with any other person. We are still investigating.” Black leaders said Sunday the killings were part of a conspiracy to assasinate civil rights leaders. Columbus, Ohio police who searched Chenault’s apartment Sunday said they found a list of civil rights leaders apparently marked for death. Compton said Atlanta detectives were aware of the names on the list but did not intend to disclose them. Funeral services for Mrs. King were held Wednesday at 11 a.m. Hinton Resigns From Pilgrim James M. Hinton, Jr., a member of the Board of Directors and Third Vice President of Administration - General Counsel, has resigned from Pilgrim Health & Life Insurance Company. “The Hinton family has been identified with Pilgrim for more than fifty years and Jim Hinton and his late father have made tremendous contributions to this / 5 iff fr H ¥ 'JU f i I ; W t 11 i I IfIHMI (Left to right) State Representative Albert W. Thompson of Columbus, Ga., Gubernatorial Candidate, State Senator Harry Jackson and State Representative R.A. Dent of Augusta pose, prior to meeting with Black leaders to help boost the candidate’s bid to become Governor. .....- V'' < I jLj W|hK If L-~ .11 I M ■ ■ fe. I £ U us Er ■r I wLI, I rl Mr. and Mrs. Milton Olive Jr. (top right) visiting with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Evans of Augusta. The Olives were in Augusta for the dedication of a Fort Gordon facility to be named for their son. Fort Gordon honored the memory of a Medal of Honor winner- in dedication ceremonies for a new post housing area Monday. Olive Terrace, a tract containing 122 units for noncommissioned officers, is being named in honor of Private First Class Milton L. Olive 111, the first Black man to win the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam. The new housing, along with 78 new units for officers, is made up of three and four bedroom duplex apartments and was built at a cost of $4.2 million dollars by Community Science Technology Development Corporation of Newport Beach, California. The dedication ceremony was headed by Major General Charles R. Myer with PFC Olive’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Olive Jr. of Chicago, attending. The young soldier was killed community and to the Pilgrim,” said Ed Mclntyre Vice President of Public Relations. “I am sure that the community will miss the leadership that Hinton has offered to so many organizations and agencies throughout the CSRA. “Hinton did not inform us of his immediate plans,” Mclntyre said. July 3, 1974 No. 15 in October, 1965, when he fell on a Viet Cong grenade and saved the lives of fellow soldiers. At the time of his death PFC Olive was a member of Company B, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry in pursuit of Viet Cong guerrillas. He and four other soldiers were moving through the jungle together when a grenade was thrown in their midst. Olive saw the grenade, grabbed it in his hand, and fell on it to absorb the blast with his body. In addition to the Medal of Honor, PFC Olive was awarded the Military Merit Medal, the Gallantry Cross with Palm and the Purple Heart (Posthumous). Nineteen other permanent memorials have been erected to the memory of PFC Milton Lee Olive throughout the country. The 21st one is to be erected on July 4th, at Fort Campbell Kentucky when the Army ■ ♦ . . . • jy A ■MjF Jj v .. T4 .. PLANNING SESSION (L R) Livingston Wallace, Robert Darby, J. Philip Waring, Emory Russell and William Candley. Blacks Who Helped Build Augusta PARTI Imformation by Mrs. Nellie Waring The Bi-Centennial Commission will help this nation to observe its two hundredth birthday anniversary in 1976. Augusta’s Springfield Baptist Church, founded in 1787, will be ready because its own history almost parallels the life of the American Republic. This institution, rich in history and legend, has made notable achievements in the religious, social and civic life of the Augusta community. Springfield Baptist Church is the oldest Black Baptist Church in the United States. Its parent church, the Silve Bluff Baptist Church, originally had a white congregation. The early histories of the two churches are so closely interwoven that it appears the Springfield Baptist Church gradually emerged into a separate all Black Baptist Church from the Silver Bluff Church, or better known as the Dead River Baptist Church. Some of the early pastors claimed that the Augusta church was the Silver Bluff Church under a new name, while the Dead River Church contends it has proof to show that it is the mother church of all Black Baptist Churches in the United States. Springfield Baptist Church was organized the second Sunday in August, 1787, by Rev. Jesse Peters and George Leile. The had belonged to the Silver Bluff Church, but had been scattered along with others during the revolutionary War period. Rev. Peters served as pastor of the church until his death in 1814. Meanwile, services continued at the Silver Bluff Church which had been turned over to Blacks by the members of the SEE SPRINGFIELD PAGE 5 there dedicates its new gym to him. The others are the 10 Headstart projects in the county where he is buried at Lexington, Miss. The Milton Olive Elementary School is in Wyandanch, Long Island, New York. Olive Field, Fort Polk, Louisiana; Olive Field, Fort Benning, Georgia; Olive Theatre, Fort Knox, Kentucky; Olive Park, CHicago; The Milton Olive Child-Parent Training Center, 1339 South Pulaski Road Chicago; The Olive-Harvey Junton College, 10001 South Woodlawn, Chicago; A wing of the Terrace-Garden Nursing Home, 34th & Michigan Ave., Chicago and the Olive-Harvey Banquet Room, Macormiek Place in Chicago. Olive Terrace is located at the northwest corner of North Range Road and Third Avenue not far from the Gate Five entrance to Fort Gordon. |ln I I this | I Issue I Homes Burglarized See... .P. 2 Police Report Patty Hearst Tape Cont. 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