A CALL FOR
JUSTICE IN GREENSBORO i
We wish lo express our concern for justice in the case of the Greensboro Massacre.
March 22nd a federal grand jury was convened in Norlh Carolina to consider indictments in conjunction with the 1979 killings of James Waller, Bill Sampson, Sandi Smith, Michael Nathan and Cesar Cauce.
We feel that it is particularly critical at this moment that the public watch carefully to ensure that this grand jury
pursue its duties in a responsible way and that the process of justice is neither limited nor distorted.
On November 3, 1979 five anU-Klan demonstrators were brutally killed, nine others injured and a black community terrorized by Ku Klux Klan and Nazi members in Greensboro, North Carolina. One year later, gunmen
seen on nation-wide TV casually shooting demonstrators were acquitted of all charges. Newspaper reports meanwhile had revealed that:
1) Bernard Butkovich, a full-time agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of the U.S.
Treasury Dept., had participated in Nazi planning meetings to prepare for the attack;
2) Edward Dawson, paid Greensboro police informer and former FBI informant, had recruited for, organiz-
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Since the acquittal, our voices and those of others have been raised to demand federal civil rights charges be
brought against those responsible for the killings.
We feel that the federal grand Jury is a response to the groundswell of support from Greensboro
Further we know the history
tivists not favorable to the goverr
made a McCarthy-like witchhunt
views that are unpopular with the
constitutiortal and human rights.
We ask all who read this to observe carefully as this crucial grand jury proceeds. In the midst of mounting
Klan racist and anti-Semitic violence and increasing attemp's by government to silence those who wish to speak
out for their rights we see North Carolina as a testing ground for justice in the 1980's.
t abuses of grand juries used to punish political, religious and social ac-
Therefore we wish to express our concern that this grand jury not be
ass, intimidate and indict the very victims of the attack simply for holding
it administration. This would be a severe violation of civil liberties and
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