John Wicker was a Greensboro Record staff writer who covered the Novemeber 3, 1979 Death to the Klan march that took place in Greensboro and left five of the protesters dead.
Subject headings
Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics
Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This November 6, 1979, article by Jim Wicker of the Greensboro Record reports on the ongoing investigation into the shootings of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. Defendants had been meeting with their attorneys, and would be allowed visitors soon. Police said that one suspect was still at large, that they were still seeking one suspect vehicle in the case, and that videotapes of news footage of the incident had been obtained from local media. Rayford Milano Caudle, Michael Euguene Clinton, Harold Dean Flowers, Billy Joe Franklin, Terry Wayne Hartsoe, Lawrence Gene Morgan, David Wayne Matthews, Claude McBride, Lee Joseph McClain, Lisford Carl Napier, Sr., Coleman Blair Pridmore, Jerry Paul Smith, Roy Clinton Toney, and Roland Wayne Wood were charged in the murders of Sandra Smith, James M. Waller, Cesar Vinson Cauce, Willam E. Samson, and Michael Nathans.
