Will the Nov 3rd Grand Jury Indict Sandy Smith's Murderers?

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WILL THE NOV. 3rd GRAND JURY
INDICT SANDY SMITH'S MURDERERS?
Beautiful Sandy Smith was shot in the head and cut down in the prime of life, along with four
other labor activists on Nov. 3,1979.
SANDY SMITH was born Dec. 25,1950.
SANDY LIVED in Greensboro.
SANDY STUDIED at Bennett College. She was president of the student body and a leader of
Youth Organized for Black Unity.
SANDY WORKED as a spinner in Cone Mills' "Revolution" textile mill.
SANDY ORGANIZED the Revolution Organizing Committee made up of hundreds of textile
workers demanding union representation at the plant.
SANDY FOUGHT oppression and harrassment of women in the mills.
SANDY DEMANDED quality education for all, an end to police brutality and freedom for the
Wilmington 10.
SANDY LED the North Carolina Communist Workers Party and the Greensboro Chapter of
the African Liberation Support Committee.
SANDY'S DEATH and that of four other demonstrators on Nov. 3,1979 cries out for justice.
WiH the Nov. 3rd Grand Jury indict Sandy Smith's murderers?
A federal grand jury in Winston-Salem, under the direction of
the U.S. Department of Justice, is currently investigating civil rights
violations in the deaths of Sandy and the other anti-Klan demonstrators and the wounding of several other people in the Greensboro Massacre.
A year after November 3, six Klan and Nazis, the only ones to
be tried out of a caravan with about 35 participants, were acquitted
in spite of tv videotapes showing them making the fatal assault. The
trial not only failed to convict the visible assassins, but it treated all
evidence of the role of government agencies in the planning and
carrying out of the killings as "off-limits."
The question now is whether history will repeat itself: Will
federal and local law enforcement agencies and Klan and Nazis be
turned loose again by the grand jury?
Consider these facts: ABOUT THE F.B.I.
FACT 1 Andrew Pelczar of the North Carolina FBI admitted the
FBI was investigating the Communist Workers Party, to
which the slain anti-Klan demonstrators belonged, in the
weeks before Nov. 3rd (Durham Sun, 11 /6/79)
FACT 2 The Washington Office of the FBI contradicted Pelczar
and denied the CWP had been under investigation. (Village Voice, 6/2/80)
FACT 3 The same Andrew Pelczar told a news conference only
days after Nov. 3rd that the FBI had no anticipation prior to
Nov. 3rd that violence might occur in Greensboro. (Channel 2, WFMY videotape)
FACT 4 Klansman Joe Grady has testified before the Grand Jury
that prior to Nov. 3rd he warned an FBI agent that there
might be trouble in Greensboro. (Greensboro Daily News,
June 10,1982)
FACT 5 Ed Dawson, Klansman and police informant who organized the Klan for November 3, admitted that he spoke to
the FBI in Greensboro during his preparations for November 3. (Institute for Southern Studies Report, "The Third of
November")
FACT 6 A woman textile worker who knew Sandy Smith has told
the Justice Dept. that a few weeks prior to Nov. 3rd a law
enforcement official showed her pictures of Sandy Smith
and others killed and wounded in the Greensboro Massacre and asked her to identify them.
REASONABLE CONCLUSION: The FBI is lying when they say
they did not expect violence Nov. 3rd. The FBI was surveilling
the people killed, but tried to cover it up. The FBI was in touch
with the Klan prior to Nov. 3rd.
Will the Grand Jury pursue the indictments of those FBI officials involved in the Greensboro Massacre?
SANDY SMITH
in particular, will the Grand Jury investigate the roles of Andrew
Pelczar, Robert Pence and Thomas Brereton — all FBI officials in a
position to supply many new facts about Nov. 3rd? (Brereton "oriented" the Grand Jurors at the opening of the investigation in
March 1982.)
Will the Grand Jury probe the relationship of Ed Dawson —
former FBI informant — with the FBI in the period around Nov. 3rd?
Consider these facts:
ABOUT THE GREENSBORO POLICE DEPT.
FACT 1 The Greensboro Police Department asked Ed Dawson —
Klansman, long-time police informant for them and former
FBI informant—to investigate the activities of the Klan
around the anti-Klan march. Dawson subsequently recruited for, organized and led the mostly out of town Klan
and Nazis to the march origin, where the killings occurred.
(Institute for Southern Studies Report, (ISS) "The Third of
November")
FACT 2 The starting point of the march was not publicized. It was
known only to the Greensboro police, who wrote it in the
parade permit granted to the demonstrators. The permit
also had an unprecedented stipulation that the marchers
were to have no firearms. Dawson obtained a copy of the
parade permit from the Greensboro police. (ISS)
FACT 3 Weeks before Nov. 3rd Dawson communicated with the
GPD that the Klan was planning to confront the marchers.
Hours before the attack, Dawson informed the police that
the Klan and Nazis were gathered at Brent Fletcher's
house and "everyone has a gun." (ISS)
FACT 4 Greensboro Police Department officer Jerry Cooper's unmarked squad car followed the Klan/Nazi caravan from
its rendezvous site to the march site, in constant communication by radio with the police Tactical Squad, and photographed the shootings but did not attempt to stop them.
(ISS)
FACT 5 Dawson was never indicted nor called to testify at the
1980 Klan/Nazi murder trial and claims the Greensboro
police tried to coerce him not to respond to a defense
subpoena. (ISS)
FACT 6 No police were present at Morningside Homes to protect
the demonstrators or the community. (ISS)
REASONABLE CONCLUSION: The Greensboro Police Department had informant Ed Dawson on their payroll not to prevent
an act of Klan violence, but to help precipitate it.
The Greensboro police deliberately allowed the shootings
to occur.