The Commercial Appeal

MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

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25 years ago — 1998

Prosecutor­s and Criminal Court Judge Joe Brown are sparring anew over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassinat­ion, this round focusing on the arrest of a man who claims knowledge of a murder plot. James C. Green was pulled over by Memphis police this week and arrested on a fugitive charge unrelated to the King case as he was driving to meet a CBS network news crew doing a piece on the 1968 assassinat­ion. Green, 51, of Springvill­e, Tenn., claims — despite conflictin­g evidence — that he was hired to kill confessed assassin James Earl Ray moments after King was shot April 4, 1968, at the

Lorraine Motel.

50 years ago — 1973

City attorneys filed a motion in federal court yesterday citing the loss of about 7,000 public school students this year as justificat­ion of withholdin­g $255,000 from the city school budget. The allotted funds have been withheld from the Memphis Board of Education since Oct. 17, 1972, when the board signed a school busing contract at that cost.

75 years ago — 1948

Add Old Sol to the list of missing persons. Memphis has been short-changed out of 65 percent of the sunshine it could have expected this month,

Weather Bureau records showed yesterday. Since Feb. 1, the sun has shone only 96 hours out of a possible 272 hours, or 35 percent.

100 years ago — 1923

Game Warden J.E. Perry yesterday inspected the Memphis Cold Storage plant and found 473 wild ducks, two geese and 350 quail put in storage by Memphis huntsmen.

125 years ago — 1898

L.P. Miles, The Commercial Appeal’s staff correspond­ent in Havana, Cuba, reports everything quiet in Havana. Divers are taking out bodies from the wrecked battleship Maine.

 ?? THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES ?? Feb. 28, 2008: University of Memphis Army ROTC member, from left, Dorian Umberger of Millington shields her face from wind and debris while Jaquane Jones of Memphis and Matt Williams of Colliervil­le watch a CH-47 Chinook helicopter touch down on Memorial Field on the U of M campus. The vehicle was picking up members of the ROTC program to transport them to Camp Mccain in Grenada, Miss., for the annual Joint Field Training Exercise Viking Tornado. After landing, the massive craft attracted a large audience of university students and employees who were allowed to board the helicopter and take a look around.
THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES Feb. 28, 2008: University of Memphis Army ROTC member, from left, Dorian Umberger of Millington shields her face from wind and debris while Jaquane Jones of Memphis and Matt Williams of Colliervil­le watch a CH-47 Chinook helicopter touch down on Memorial Field on the U of M campus. The vehicle was picking up members of the ROTC program to transport them to Camp Mccain in Grenada, Miss., for the annual Joint Field Training Exercise Viking Tornado. After landing, the massive craft attracted a large audience of university students and employees who were allowed to board the helicopter and take a look around.

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