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Sims, 43, an Athens machinist, and Myers, 26, a textile worker, showed no emotion when U.S. Attorney Floyd Buford, a Georgia native, accused them of "actively participating" in the slaying. His chief witness, ex-Klansman Thomas "Big Tom" Stephens, a truck driver, related that a garage operator told him the night of the slaying that Sims and Myers "was out chasin' a nigger car with D.C. tags on it." Stephens also testified that he later heard the pair "discuss a shootin'," adding: "I heard one say he tried to get the other one not to kill...
From other witnesses, Buford elicited testimony to show that the murder was the climax of "a broader conspiracy" among the three defendants and other Klansmen: they plotted to terrorize Negroes throughout the Athens area. Earlier in 1964, police officials testified, Sims pistol-whipped an elderly Negro. A Negro garage attendant told of being set upon at about the same time by 18 hooded Klansmen and beaten with a strap by one whom he made out to be Sims. On another occasion, a witness related, shots were fired at a Negro apartment building from three carloads of whites, Turner and Myers...
Hooker's opponent for the Democratic nomination is Buford Ellington, 58, who resigned in January as President Johnson's Office of Emergency Planning chief. During an earlier term as Governor, Ellington backed Johnson for President at the 1960 Democratic Convention, and the two have often exchanged visits and swapped breeding bulls. In his political views, however, Hooker is closer to Johnson, supports medicare, a Tennessee state minimum wage law and repeal of 14(b)-none of which especially appeal to Ellington. Hooker last week accepted the Tennessee co-chairmanship of the National Lawyers Committee for the President...
...Johnson moved through a noisy, fetid hall where one group of Negroes sat on the floor eating cold pork and beans and raw carrots. He was greeted with cries of "Water! Water! Give us drinking water!" Outside, Johnson, plainly moved by their plight, told Office of Emergency Planning Director Buford Ellington: "You've got to give them some water in there." L.B.J. then asked Mayor Schiro to get every Coca-Cola, Seven-Up and Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in town to rush soft drinks to the school-and advised the mayor to make personally sure that the bottles were...
...Swore in an old friend, Tennessee's former Governor Buford Ellington, 57, as director of the Office of Emergency Planning. Ellington had already been sworn in once, but Johnson decided that his first oath taking had been insufficiently publicized, ordered another ceremony. The President announced that Ellington would also act as a liaison with state Governors, and that all 50 Governors will be invited to Washington soon for a conference "about the various problems that face...