Martha Woodall was a staff writer for the Greensboro Record in 1981.
Subject headings
Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics
Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This November 5, 1979, article by Martha Woodall of the Greensboro Record reports on Greensboro Police Chief W.E. Swing's defense of his department's actions related to the shooting of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. Swing states that officers had minimized their presence in order to keep from instigating "an incident" after having been warned by rally organizers to stay away. He also says that cars were on the way to the area, but that the shootings began before they were scheduled to arrive. Swing offers his opinion that the surveillance officers following the KKK members were not initially aware that the Klansmen were armed, and makes no comment on how a group of KKK members were able to escape without being intercepted, citing the ongoing investigation.
