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Carpenter, from the first generation of film-school babies, was fusing two favorite old movies: Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, with Sheriff John Wayne and his ragtag deputies holding off a jail raid, and George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which the zombies attack a house in a cemetery and just keep on coming. He also laced his movie with references to Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford and Sergio Leone movies. As he did in his next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year...
...slayings were especially sinister. On Sunday, June 21, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were headed to Meridian, Miss., in their station wagon. Outside Philadelphia, they were stopped by deputy sheriff Cecil Price, a Klansman, who put them in jail. According to testimony in the 1967 trial, Price plotted with Killen to release the three men that night, then have them tailed by Price, Killen and other Klansmen. The conspirators abducted the civil rights workers, whom Killen had allegedly ordered two Klansmen to shoot. The three bodies were buried on a nearby farm, where they were found a month and a half...
Neshoba County sheriff Larry Myers said last week that there would eventually be more arrests. "It's satisfying to know they got one," says Chaney's mother Fannie Chaney, 82, in New Jersey, "but they need to get 'em all." Said Billy Wayne Posey, one of those convicted in the 1967 federal trial: "This is like a nightmare." It's also a day of reckoning that mothers like Goodman and Chaney feel is long overdue. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/ Philadelphia and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York
...Woods, private and public lands abut each other, and the only way to know the difference is to consult maps issued by the state or look for NO TRESPASSING signs. Landowners routinely find unauthorized hunters on their property. Etiquette calls for asking the interloper to leave or phoning the sheriff or game warden. Physical confrontations are extremely rare...
...SHERIFF-ELECT OF DALLAS COUNTY Deep in the heart of Bush-Cheney country, Lupe Valdez bested a heavily funded Republican to become not only the county's first female sheriff but also the first Hispanic lesbian Democrat to hold the office...