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greensboro set to mark deadly anniversary

Published Nov. 3, 2009
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Question......

I want to know if anyone remember the incidents that happened that day in Greensboro back in 1979,and did you have any relatives that were living in Greensboro or anywhere in the Triad at that time?

For me,I fondly remember it when I was in junior-high school back in 1979,when it was first mention on the news.....It was around Noonish on November 3,1979 when WRAL interrupted regular scheduled programming to bring you this special report from at the time Action News 5......and the main anchor Charlie Gaddy broke out with local news about the announcement of several people killed in a clash between Nazi radicals and Klansmen and innocent folks......

And for the record back in 1979,WRAL was an ABC-TV affiliate

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This was also mentioned during a live broadcast from WFMY (Channel 2)out of Greensboro that first rushed the story too. WFMY had live coverage of this.....where the incidents occured. I remember fondly during Channel 2's 6:00PM broadcast when Lee Kinard broke out with the main story and the events of that day

I remember the event. Didn't know any locals.

We moved here in the 80's so we hadn't heard about that.

Praying for anyone with loss though, cause every anniversary the wound opens again I'm sure.

God bless.

RB

>I fondly remember it<

??? I marvel at that

I remember it, and thought then and now how it had NOTHING to do with Greensboro. They were prepared for gunfire on both sides, with the marchers firing the first shot, as I recall from then, and the guy dying being a doctor and having thrown his life away for what appeared to be a nothing demonstration. Just a waste all around. Then, others come capitalize or utilize the event for their own purposes, and again, it had nothing to do with Greensboro. I could not relate to anyone in the story other than the innocent citizens of greensboro and NC. Had not it been for the words COMMUNIST & KKK, we wouldn't be talking about it now. Had it been a shooting at a wedding, we would not be talking about the montagues and capulets.

Haven't seen the story, but I'd be surprised if the city itself was wanting to recognize an event that has nothing to do with the city itself, and nothing worth celebrating. Keep strife alive!

DJ, 'nuff said.

I was six, and in SC. I do not ever remember hearing about this.

Which is surprising....the town I came from in SC was full of the costume wearing idgits.

nope

I didn't live in NC at the time. However I will never forget the KKK walking the streets in sanford handing out pamphlets when we first moved here(1984). I did not like it and was scared too death.

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