MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1995
Atlanta – Southern Baptists will be asked this week to apologize for racism and slavery, repent and seek forgiveness. A resolution on racial reconciliation was recommended unanimously Sunday by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Resolutions Committee. It will be presented Tuesday afternoon to delegates attending the SBC’S annual meeting here at the Georgia Dome. The issue of slavery has never been dealt with publicly by the Southern Baptist Convention, which was formed in 1845 after Baptists in the North refused to appoint a Georgia slaveholder as a missionary.
50 years ago — 1970
Santa Monica, Calif. – Hippie guru Charles Manson appeared in court Thursday to answer to an eighth charge of murder and proclaimed his innocence in front of television cameras. Manson was brought into Santa Monica Superior Court for a hearing on an indictment for murder in the slaying of musician Gary Hinman. Before the session began, he admitted he “felt a little nervous,” but added, “I have no guilt.” Turning to face waiting cameras and addressing the expected television audience, Manson said: “You’re the jury. You’re the courts. You’re the whole thing. If you stand for it, if you contribute to it, you’re part of it. It’s just as much your fault as anyone else’s.”
75 years ago — 1945
Eddy Arnold, young new star of WSM’S Grand Ole Opry, will be in Memphis broadcasting and selling war bonds all day Friday over station WMPS.
100 years ago — 1920
Washington – Children may not be transported as parcel post, First Assistant Postmaster General Koons ruled today, in-passing on two applications received at the Washington city post office for the transportation of children through the mails. Mr. Koons ruled that children clearly do not come within the classification of “harmless live animals which do not require food or water while in transit.” One 9-year-old girl entered the main post office there and asked that she be sent to Kentucky. A parent of a 3-year-old child made application for the transportation of that child by parcel post.
125 years ago — 1895
The Utopian Society will hold another of its debates on the topic “Have We Reason to Believe our Government Will Endure?” this afternoon. The Memphis Military Institute will take the affirmative side of the argument. Public invited.