Lewis Pitts explains how the prosecuting attorney selected jurors for the State Trial for the November 3rd, 1979 shootings: From the News & Record article, Blame for shooting shared, report says: […] The all-white jury in the state criminal trial was caused by a “problematic jury selection process.” Before 1986, defense attorneys and prosecutors could […]
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[Video] Our Justice System
June 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Tags: 11/03/79 · African American · CWP · excerpt · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · KKK · Lewis Pitts · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · State Trial · video
[Video] Sure We Paid, But We’ve Got Nothing To Apoligize For
June 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment
After the defendants in the shootings were twice acquitted in state and federal trials, a civil trial found that Klansmen, Nazis and members of the Greensboro Police Department were jointly liable for the wrongful death of one of the five CWP members killed. Instead of appealing the decision, the city of Greensboro decided to to […]
Tags: 11/03/79 · civil trial · excerpt · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Jim Melvin · KKK · mayor · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · verdict · video
[Video] Greensboro’s Child – The Opening
May 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment
A preview of the first couple of minutes of Greensboro’s Child. It’s hard to believe that I started this documentary back in ’97. I was an amateur, in college, holding a mic and pointing a camera at an interviewee, with a light kit set up in no particular order and no clue as to the […]
Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · excerpt · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · Kwame Cannon · Screenings · The GTRC · video · Willena Cannon