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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.
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Full text | / 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. |