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Posted on Friday, July 4, 2008
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/230440/
100 YEARS AGO
July 4, 1908 FORT SMITH — A written statement made by one of the prisoners of the county jail corroborates the statement of Elijah Skaggs that an attempt on the part of the prisoners was made to hang him. It is stated that he was tried by a kangaroo court composed of the prisoners, and sentenced to be hanged. He was then bound, taken to the top of a cell, a rope was tied around his neck and he was pushed off. He fell on his head and suffered a broken jaw. 50 YEARS AGO
July 4, 1958 Chancellor Lee Ward went on television last night 24 hours after Gov. Faubus and issued a scathing answer to the governor’s speech on “outside” interference. The governor, said Judge Ward, should start worrying about his opposition in Arkansas and not about the “outsiders.” He said the governor was trying to distract the voters from the record of his administration with the racial issue. “So Orval Faubus went the way of the demagogue,” Ward said. Judge Ward charged that Mr. Faubus “is trying to salvage another phony issue out of the great tragedy he created.” 25 YEARS AGO
July 4, 1983 United States Senator David Pryor said that in the face of social problems and the threat of nuclear war, America is attempting to “rediscover its soul.” Speaking at a “patriotic worship service” at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Pryor said the Fourth of July holiday is a time for the county to “look into the mirror” as a people. “Much of what we see is not pretty. We wonder if we have put our priorities in the right place,” he said. “We wonder if in our time and in our generation, we might go about things differently.” 10 YEARS AGO
July 4, 1998 J. D. Drew became a St. Louis Cardinal yesterday. For now, he’s an Arkansas Traveler. Drew, 22, a former Florida State All-America outfielder who refused to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies after the 1997 draft, signed a $ 7 million, four-year contract with the Cardinals that is a record for a drafted player.