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<br />Larry Pollard life story
<br />s nearly unimaginable
<br />)pe.
<br />I is the person who
<br />d the outlandish "owl
<br />ibout the death of ICath-
<br />arson. Last week, he sat
<br />the far tight of the front
<br />)urtroum 1, as Judge
<br />Hudson found convicted
<br />r Michael Peterson
<br />ible for the wrongful
<br />his wife.
<br />1, I would learn, had
<br />J -white paper copies of
<br />athleen Peterson's
<br />?hotos tucked in his
<br />:n court, he looked iso-
<br />e 55- year -old business -
<br />)rney and three -time
<br />trolinn legislative candi-
<br />looked quite like his
<br />er, Forrest Pollard.
<br />It Pollard, at 53, was also
<br />;e news once, in another
<br />ial criminal case. April
<br />—a huge headline in the
<br />Morning Herald:
<br />,ES ALLEN SLAIN IN
<br />- Pollard in jail; No Bond
<br />" The attorney was,
<br />with the first - degree
<br />if Allen.
<br />voting occurred outside
<br />ome in Hope Valley.
<br />'orest Pollard's ex -wife
<br />vis.Pollard, mother of
<br />rear -old Larry. Earlier, in
<br />call, the child had told
<br />bat his mother was at
<br />try club. Hours after -
<br />e man who accompanied
<br />dead on arrival at Duke
<br />)urthouse hallway Fri -
<br />oke with Pollard about
<br />xible events: "It's a difff-
<br />g to live through," he
<br />:er: "You have your ups
<br />ns in life, you deal with
<br />id you go ahead,"
<br />,led as a death penalty
<br />t a jury convicted For -
<br />ard of manslaughter.
<br />illy, lie claimed Ile shot
<br />vice, to protect himself .
<br />i struggle. When Forrest
<br />testified, he said, when
<br />)out the second shot: "I
<br />of my mind."
<br />edge called it "a brutal
<br />" and sentenced him to
<br />Pollard said his father
<br />By was paroled and died
<br />ig our talk, while Pollard
<br />:d what happened long
<br />expressed strong empa-
<br />Mike Peterson's children.
<br />nagine how the girls feel,
<br />no that will go with them
<br />:est of their lives. If it is
<br />A [that Peterson mur-
<br />athleenj, it's unfair to
<br />am with that burden.
<br />are, we have brought
<br />acts (the owl. theory) to
<br />)solutely certain...."
<br />•n, I asked if he felt his
<br />lid not get justice-
<br />: that somehow motivat-
<br />today. "No," Pollard
<br />-d. "I've never said I did
<br />k my father committed
<br />ne. In my father's case,
<br />was served."
<br />aver, Pollard said: "It's ...
<br />ie stronger. Made me able
<br />other things, and given
<br />courage to stand up in
<br />-titular instance and say
<br />)elieve."
<br />e's more. Dec. 17,1968, in
<br />rham Sun, another giant
<br />e: "Airport Plane Crash
<br />Ilia Pollard." One of Pol-
<br />der brothers piloted the
<br />lane. Pollard, then at
<br />ad driven his mother to
<br />Mark Schultz, Metro editor Money matters
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<br />en caskets in some of the graves former N,C. bIutual Life Insur- dential Options for Substance
<br />Council approves restoration have collapsed, leaving deep once Co. executive and local his- Abusers to do the initial work
<br />of historic black graveyard rectangular indentations in the Durham's who was active a The c very also agreed to spend
<br />ground. Durham's civil rights move- $850 every three months for the
<br />A group called Friends of ment next year to maintain the.3.8;'.
<br />BY BEN EVANS The cemetery's supporters Geer Cemetery, which formed The group later requested acre property on Colonial'Street
<br />bevans@hemidsun.com; 419 -6600 hope the maintenance will help last year, initially had hoped to that the city pay for the cleanup, near Avondale Drive in the Duke.
<br />Geer Cemetery — Durham's galvanize efforts to restore and organize a community cleanup citing a statelaw,theitnuthpri es Park neighborhood. ;1
<br />major burial round for black preserve the historic site, and arrange for regular mainte- cities tdi.maiatain or take over "After that, we would have
<br />residentd until around 1940 —Is The property has no known nonce. The response was good, cemeteries whose owners have find funding. In other words }'
<br />slated to be cleaned no for the owner and has been - unattended but special concerns involved in died or are unknown. they're giving us a year to find
<br />First time since 1991 after the for decades, its headstones and cleaning a cemetery without dis- Earlier this month, the coon- out how we might find more
<br />City Council approved nearly gravesites overgrown with turbing the graves complicated oil voted unanimously to hire the
<br />$14,260 to pay for the project, scrub trees and brush. Old wood- the effort, said Kelly Bryant, a nonprofit group Tliangle Resi-
<br />A DATABASE FOR POSTERITY I HERITAGE PROJECT
<br />Karen Glynn (right) tries to help Florence Gilliard date a Gilliard family photo during a Durham Civil Rights Heritage
<br />Project event Monday at St. Josephs AME Church. Glynn is a visual materials archivist at the Rare Bollk.
<br />Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. , f
<br />� Civil rights snapshots
<br />At St. Joseph's AME,
<br />details reawaken in oral
<br />histories, photographs
<br />BY CHRISTOPHER KIRICPATRICIC
<br />cklrkpatrickithemidsun.com; 419-6636
<br />Three black students sat at the whites-
<br />only counter at Tanner's Fruit Drinks &
<br />Sandwich Shop, also known as Tanner's
<br />Orange Juice, in downtown Durham. They
<br />demanded service,
<br />Instead, they were arrested, among the
<br />first student sit -in arrests in Durham
<br />County. The year was 1960 and the month
<br />February, the same month and year of the
<br />famous Woolworth's lunch- counter sit -in
<br />In Greensboro that sparked a movement
<br />across the South to defeat Jim Crow seg-
<br />regation.
<br />A lunch counter sit -in at Durham's
<br />Royal Ice Cream Co. had taken place three
<br />years earlier. But it was Greensboro's stu-
<br />dent sit -in on Feb. 1, 1960, that inspired the
<br />region, In Durham, students started a rou-
<br />tine of marching from North Carolina Col-
<br />lege — now N.C. Central University — to
<br />downtown to stage sit -ins and protests.
<br />John Edwards, the past chairman of the
<br />Durham Committee on the Affairs of
<br />Black People and one of the three students
<br />arrested that day at the orange juice shop,
<br />remembered Durham's student move-
<br />ment oil Monday, Martin Luther Icing Jr.
<br />He spoke at St Joseph's AME church at
<br />2521 Fayetteville St. as part of the
<br />Durham Civil Rights Heritage Project.
<br />Anyone could walls though the complex to
<br />look at old photos and listen to oral histo-
<br />ries. Or they could and still can add their
<br />photos and documents to the collection by
<br />calling Lynn Richardson at the Durham
<br />County Public Library at 560 -0100.
<br />The aim is to build a database of the era
<br />for research and posterity to be housed at
<br />the Durham County Public Library. Sev-
<br />eral more collection events will be sched-
<br />uled, but the exact dates are not yet avail-
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<br />"r` w Glynn (left)
<br />�r 13 and Gilliard
<br />? examine
<br />another of
<br />Gilliard's old
<br />s family pho-
<br />tos. The aim
<br />of the Civil
<br />Rights Her-
<br />itage Project
<br />is to build a
<br />database of
<br />the era for
<br />N research and
<br />posterity at
<br />the Durham
<br />�as71r flk j' County
<br />Public
<br />Library.
<br />so donors don't have to surrender actual
<br />materials.
<br />On Monday, the oral histories provided
<br />the kinds of details often lost in more
<br />sweeping analyses provided by historians
<br />or in textbooks.
<br />The student movement grew and
<br />included the local barbershops and beau-
<br />ty colleges, school of nursing, Hillside and
<br />Merrick -Moore high schools and others.
<br />Students targeted the segregated lunch
<br />counters and public accommodations at
<br />the ICress, Woolworth's and Walgreen's
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<br />suspect
<br />Out of hospital; into
<br />jail for man shot by
<br />officer he's accused
<br />of pistol- whipping
<br />BY ERIC OLSON .
<br />eolsonWheraldsuncom; 419 -6647
<br />A Durham man accused of pis-
<br />tol- whipping a Durham police
<br />officer and who was shot several
<br />times by that officer Saturday
<br />was released from the hospital
<br />and jailed on a $1:5 million bond
<br />Monday afternoon.
<br />Ricky Franklin Swindell Jr., 22,
<br />of 2836 Chapel Hill Road, Apt. 30-
<br />I, was taken to the Durhnm Coun-
<br />ty Jail on charges of assault with
<br />deadly weapon with intent to kill
<br />inflicting serious injury, assault
<br />with deadly weapon on a govern-
<br />ment official,
<br />possession of a
<br />firearm by a a ,%
<br />convicted felon k
<br />and possession
<br />with Intent to
<br />manufacture,
<br />sell or deliver
<br />schedule II nar-
<br />cotics. SWINDELL
<br />Durham Coun-
<br />ty Magistrate Angel Foster set
<br />Swindell's bond at $1.5 million
<br />secured. He is scheduled to
<br />appear at 9 a.m. today in Durham
<br />District Court.
<br />Meanwhile, Durham police
<br />Chief Steve Chalmers said Mon -
<br />day night that authorities are con-
<br />sidering federal charges against
<br />Swindell.
<br />"Right now, we are discussing
<br />the course of action that we are
<br />going to take," Chalmers said.
<br />"We are discussing the possibili-
<br />ty of federal prosecution in this
<br />case."
<br />In addition, State Bureau of
<br />Investigation agents are looping
<br />into the incident, which is stan-
<br />dard procedure in any shooting
<br />involving an officer.
<br />Cpl. J.N. Cates Jr. was
<br />patrolling the Valley Terrace
<br />Apartments, 2836 Chapel Hill
<br />Road, around 11:30 a.m. Saturday
<br />in response to complaints about
<br />possible drug activity, police said.
<br />Cates said he confronted a man
<br />behaving in a suspicious manner,
<br />but the man fled. After a brief
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