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Michael Goodwin (born October 12, 1942) is a former American labor union leader. Born in Staten Island, Goodwin began working as an organizer for the Office and Professional Employees International Union in 1967. In 1977, he became secretary-treasurer of the union's local 153, and then in 1979, he was elected as a vice president of the ...
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Edgar Ray Killen (January 10, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.
Though Michael Lloyd Self, a local sex offender, wrote a confession, he contended that police officers forced him to do so at gunpoint. Self was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975. In 1976, two of the officers who took his confession were arrested for numerous bank robberies and sentenced to 30–50 years.
Police arrested Lemon for burglary and fighting responding officers. Due to injuries sustained during his arrest, he was transported to Bon Secours Hospital. After Lemon's handcuffs were removed during a medical examination, he fled the scene and was fatally shot in the back outside the building by an officer assigned to guard him.
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Goodwin, now 45, of Eliot, Maine, was fired from the Portsmouth Police Department in 2015 after being accused of exercising undue influence to get an elderly, mentally impaired woman to leave most ...
A Southern California man has been arrested and charged with murder after he allegedly beat a woman to death with a fire ... 26, a bartender, is accused of approaching Tatum Goodwin, 27, as she ...