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- On this day in 1973, a mix of fog and smoke blanketed the New Jersey Turnpike, setting off a chain of deadly collisions.
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New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) northbound approaching split into Western Spur and Eastern Spur in Newark. The Eastern Spur crosses the Passaic River on the Chaplain Washington Bridge, which honors Rev. John P. Washington who gave up his life jacket and died as the SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943. [18]
Oct 25, 1973 · NEWARK, Oct. 24—At least nine persons were killed and more than 40 injured in a series of collisions that sent 65 vehicles crashing and careening into each other in a heavy fog that swathed a...
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The New York of Assata Shakur’s childhood was a harsh place for Black girls. Race riots and white flight killed the economic and social boom known as the Harlem Renaissance, and an economic depression had settled over the Black communities in every borough of the city. Born on July 16, 1947, Shakur’s parents divorcedwhen she was young, and she spen...
Shakur enthusiastically helped open Black Panthers operations on the East Coast and volunteered to run their famous free breakfast program in New York. But according to her autobiography, she believed the Panthers were well-intentioned but terribly ignorant about American history. They knew, she claimed, a lot about socialism and radical politics, ...
Shortly before 1 a.m. on the morning of May 2, 1973, two full years into the BLA’s crime spree, New Jersey State Trooper James Harper stopped a speeding car with a broken tail light on the New Jersey Turnpike. During the stop, he asked the male driver of the vehicle to step out and, according to the later testimony of another officer who arrived as...
Throughout the nine-week trial, the courthouse was secured by a ring of deputies, who were themselves surrounded by “civil rights activists,” many of them armed and in attendance to protest each day. Ultimately, the jury found Shakur guilty as charged on both murder counts and all six assault charges. On hearing the verdict, Shakur called the jury ...
May 26, 2022 · Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member who was convicted in the 1973 shooting death of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, was freed Wednesday after nearly a half-century in prison.
On May 2, 1973, at about 12:45 a.m., [10] Acoli, along with Zayd Malik Shakur (born James F. Costan) and Assata Shakur (born JoAnne Chesimard), were stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick for driving with a broken tail light by State Trooper James Harper, backed up by Trooper Werner Foerster in a second patrol vehicle. [11]
Sep 29, 2014 · Sundiata Acoli, then known as Clark Edward Squire, was found guilty of murder in the 1973 shooting death of trooper Werner Foerster during a traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike.
May 21, 2018 · On May 2, 1973, Assata Shakur and two other BLA members were stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by New Jersey state troopers. After the officers discovered guns in their cars, a confrontation ensued, and Assata Shakur was shot, one state trooper suffered minor injuries, and another, Werner Forrester, was killed.
