GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
April 21, 1982 Bl
Cameramen: Klan Shooting Looked Planned
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WINSTON-SALEM — Two television
photographers told a federal grand jury
Tuesday the Nov. 3, 1979, shooting deaths
of five anti-Klan demonstrators in Greensboro resembled a well-planned military ma-
"I told them that it looked like a planned
operation, executed like a military operation," said Jim Waters of WFMY-TV in
Greensboro, after spending an hour with the
grand jury. "I even used the words that it
almost looked like a military hit squad."
Ed Boyd of WTVD in Durham, who testi
fied for 45 minutes Tuesday, said he gave a
similar statement to the grand jury.
"Right after the shootings, I was thinking, hey, this is nothing but a set-up," Boyd
said after his testimony. "I used to be pretty good in math, and one and one make
two."
Both men videotaped the shooting that
erupted just prior to a "Death to the Klan"
march held in a southeast Greensboro housing project and organized by the Communist
Workers Party.
They said they responded to questions
from U.S. Justice Department attorneys
who asked for their overall impressions of
the gunfire that left five CWP members
dead. , *
Waters said he was surprised by the
open-ended nature of the questioning.
"I was really pleased that the Justice
Department attorneys did not try to restrict
my answers at all," Waters said. "I was
really pleased with the way the questions
were worded. They gave me plenty of opportunity to explain myself."
Waters and Boyd were among three television photographers who were subpoenaed
to testify before the grand jury. The
21-member panel is investigating whether
federal civil rights laws were violated during the Nov. 3 incident.
-The photographers are the first known
witnesses, other than two FBI agents, to
speak to the grand jury since it was impaneled March 22. They also were the first to
publicly comment on the proceedings, which
are held in secret.
Videotapes taken by the two men are believed to have been shown to the grand jury
during previous sessions at the Federal
Building in Winston-Salem. Both men were
interviewed by the government prior to
their testimony.
The Nov. 3 shootings occurred when a
caravan of Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazi Par-
