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News Diary: Jordan, MLK — Comparable Trauma

Paul Turner’s excellent piece today on the assassination of Martin Luther King and its impact on Memphis prompted me to relive an unfortunate and similar experience. Vernon Jordan, then director of the National Urban League, was severely wounded by a racist sniper in my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, late on the night of May 29, 1980. I was then a regional editor at the News-Sentinel, an afternoon newspaper in a two-paper town. Jordan survived the shooting and credited a Fort Wayne surgeon, Dr. Jeffrey Towles, with saving his life/Gary Graham, News Diary. More here

SR Blog Roundup:
*Executive sessions in Whoville/Rich Roesler, Eye On Olympia
*Dog park's popularity not unnoticed/Rebecca Mack, Hard 7
*The Scientology revolution/David Laird, Community Comment
*Elvis Costello is not coming to Big Easy/Isamu Jordan, Sound Wave
*Friday's quickie political briefing/Jim Camden, Spin Control 2.0



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.