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Four Die in Klan-Leftist Shootout

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Title	Four Die in Klan-Leftist Shootout
Date	1979-11-04
Creator	Scism, Jack
Biographical/historical note	Jack Scism was a staff writer for the Greensboro Daily News in 1980. He served as as city editor and senior business correspondent for its successor publication, the Greensboro News and Record until his retirement in 1996.
Subject headings	Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics	Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This November 4, 1979 article by Jack Scism of the Greensboro Daily News is the first coverage by the newspaper of the shooting deaths of five Communist Workers Party (CWP) members at a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. Scism includes a brief history of confrontation between the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and CWP (as the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO) at the time), as well as a chronology of the events of November 3, 1979. Killed at the rally were Sandra Smith, James M. Waller, Cesar Vinson Cauce, William E. Samson, and Michael Nathans (who died on November 5). Fourteen KKK members (Michael Euguene Clinton, Rayford Milano Caudle, Harold Dean Flowers, Billy Joe Franklin, Terry Wayne Hartsoe, Lawrence Gene Morgan, David Wayne Matthews, Lee Joseph McClain, Lisford Carl Napier, Sr., Coleman Blair Pridmore, Jerry Paul Smith, Roy Clinton Toney, and Roland Wayne Wood) were arrested for murder, while Nelson Johnson and one fellow CWP member were charged with inciting to riot. The article includes some community reaction as well as a two photographs and a map of the scene.
Type	Text
Original format	clippings
Original dimensions	4213 x 2372
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Daily News
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Source collection	Misc. Coll. -- James A. Armfield Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	GHM_Misc. Coll.JArmfield.1229
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884367497

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