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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1968
Page
12
William W. Thomas, a former Augusta County teacher, was acquitted in Staunton Circuit Court after a pistol slaying at an ice cream store. The bodies of Mrs Hevener and Mrs Carolyn H Perry were found in the store back room. the verdict followed testimony placing Thomas near the crime scene late at night.
President Johnson signed a landmark open housing bill as a federal task force begins enforcement. The act prohibits discrimination in 80 percent of housing sales and rentals by 1970 and creates a federal crime for threats or violence against civil rights exercises.
A mistrial was declared in the case of 17 year old Robert L. Williams charged with murder in the December 12 shooting of Jack P. Salmon. Defense revealed Williams was a juvenile and no pretrial report existed. Judge Robe rt S Wahab ordered no new trial date. The article also notes Virginia’s Longwood College origins.
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