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Essex' Mother Blames SocietyCorCuiDo1duEa:EelErrEMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — The awaken white America to the Funeral services are scheduled not hate white men, “he hatedmother of Mark J. Essex says injustices that blacks suffer, for Saturday morning, with the what the white man stood for,society was responsible for the then some good will come of Rev. W.A. Chambers, a close the white system. He knewdeath of her son, identified by it,” she said. family friend, officiating. whites, he went to school withpolice as the New Orleans sni- Mrs. Essex and her husband “We must cease provoking whites, he dated a white girl •per. have scheduled a news confer- people to the point that they and then he told me that heThe shooting in which her son enee today. must seek revenge to get even didn’t know why blacks datedJlie ailUUllllg Ul wuivii iici ouu cuvc luuaj, mjluoi. ivtwigv uvr £,^1, . ——- ---- „ -was killed and six other per- Essex, a 23-year-old black, with society,” Essex’ father ’white girls because they’re nosons died by sniper fire is a was shot to death by police on said Wednesday as he and his different than black girls and‘clear signal for White Amer- the roof of the DownTown How- wife spoke with newsmen for they’re not as beautiful.”vital Signal 1U1 niliic 1 U1C lUUl Ul UlC -I-'VVVII iunuica to get off the seat of its ard Johnson's hotel in New Or- the first time since their son She described her son as a pants and do something,” Mrs. leans after sniper fire erupted was identified as the slain sni- good boy, a gentle man, alwayshelpful.Mark Essex told newsmen at the hotel Sunday. per. neipiui. ^Wednesday. Essex’ body is to be returned “I blame society,” he said. Her son’s troubles started in____ • *. v - , /~t..“If this terrible thing will here from New Orleans today. Mrs. Essex said her son did the Navy, which, she said,“brainwashed” him. naShe said her son returned1 ~T-■ fr P 1 /x lt;rj /--I o I l 11 home last October to thinkXX Llllt X JXaC1.XLS VX IXXLlj' about the injustices a black Pman receives in the service.” ^ She said he was harassed withWASHINGTON (AP) — After Lawyers for the six other conspiracy, burglary and im- petty annoyances and “racist hearing the prosecution de- men charged with Hunt de- planting microphones and mistreatment.”scribe an alleged campaign of dined to say what impact his telephone taps in the Watergate She said the youth and hisespionage against the Demo- plea would have on their offices. friends were stopped repeatedlycratic party, former White clients. The other defendants are by Navy police, forced to showHouse consultant E, Howard After hearing the plea, to James W. McCord Jr., former identification and evenHunt has pleaded guilty to ’Mnich the prosecution agreed, security coordinator for the searched at times. He took athree charges growing out of U.S. Dist. Court Judge John J. Nixon re-election committee; part-time job in a Navy clubthe break-in at Democratic na- Siri.ca recessed, court overnight G. Gordon Liddy, former gener- and was forced to ask^ep^tional headquarters. - to consider whether to accept al counsel for the Committee mission to do part of his ’lob?*Government attorneys said the plea. for the Re-election of the Presi- that white sailors did freely,the operation was ordered by Hunt, a former CIA agent, dent; and Bernard L. Barker, she said,top officials of President Nix- pleaded guilty to charges of Frank A. Sturgis, Eugenio R. “It was just these little thingson’s re-election campaign com- conspiracy, burglary and wire- Martinez and Virgilio Gonzalez, on top of one another thatmittee, and included wiretapp- tapping. Sirica will decide whe- former CIA operatives. made Jimmy do what he did.”ing and bugging of Democratic ther three similar chargesoffices as well as attempts to against Hunt will be dropped. ^ The cry Of the wolf changed his life. It may change yours,eavesdrop on the headquarters Hunt and the other defend- Jfc| s jj;of Sen. George McGovern. tints are charged variously with internationalproductiohs
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Ottawa Herald
Ottawa, Kansas, US
Thu, Jan 11, 1973
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