Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, June 16, 1967

Prisoner Gassing

The Fulton County Grand Jury was scheduled today to investigate the alleged use of tear gas to obtain admission of petty theft from eight prisoners. The inmates were reportedly sprayed with tear gas in a basement storage room after the mother of a 17-year-old prisoner said her son had been forced to participate in an illegal sex act and had been robbed.

Station Honored

Atlanta radio station WSB was cited by Southern Presbyterians Wednesday for “the oldest continuous religious program in the world,” the Sunday morning broadcast for 45 years of services at the city’s First Presbyterian Church.

Wallace Ultimatum

Sargent Shriver, director of the nation’s poverty program, has given Gov. Lurleen Wallace until today to state her reason for vetoing the controversial $400,000 grant to a Black (soil) Belt farmers’ cooperative. The grant was approved May 15 by the Office of Economic Opportunity but Gov. Wallace vetoed it June 8 in a telegram.

This story was originally published June 15, 2017 at 4:41 PM with the headline "Looking Back."