Title	Swing defends police
Date	1979-11-05
Creator	Woodall, Martha
Biographical/historical note	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.
Type	Text
Original format	clippings
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Daily News
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Source collection	Misc. Coll. -- James A. Armfield Papers
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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.1252
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	884367583

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