People’s Tribunal Condemns Cops

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Fifth Estate # 38, September 15-30, 1967

The worst thing one could say about the Algiers Motel Tribunal is that it was Recorder’s Court upside down. If the tribunal was biased and weighted against the four white defendants, Detroit Patrolman Robert Paille and Ronald August, National Guardsman …

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New Evidence in Leroy Killing

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Fifth Estate # 37, September 1-15, 1967

Editor’s note: Investigation of the murder of John Leroy reported in the last issue of the Fifth Estate is continuing. (See “Who Killed John Leroy?” FE  #36, August 15-31, 1967.) News editor Frank H. Joyce has talked with two of …

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Who Killed John Leroy?

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

Ronald Powell crouched inside the car. So did the other four men.

A New Detroit?

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Fifth Estate # 36, August 15-31, 1967

Curious. The same people who built the old Detroit, which the people burned down because apparently they didn’t like it much, have been selected to build the new Detroit.

Detroit Tries to Support Viet War

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Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967

The gentlemen of Grand Circus Park were not impressed. But then there wasn’t much to be impressed by. Less than 500 people marched down Woodward Avenue in the great Flag Day parade on June 14. The March was called by …

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Hippies Confront New Left

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Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967

On June 16, 1962 a group of students stimulated by the burgeoning protest movement of black young people in the south, met at Port Huron, Michigan.

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