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100 years ago

Nov. 6, 1917

PINE BLUFF -- D. Minor, aged 23 years, a white farmer, who lives at Gethsemane, in the northern part of Jefferson county, was shot from ambush and instantly killed, as he was riding along the road near his home last night. One of the five shots also killed his horse. Deputies Sheriff J. L. McBurnett, Wes Baldwin, and Henry Williams went to the scene and returned this morning with Anthony Wright, a negro, who is charged with the killing. The negro insisted that he knows nothing of the crime and said he was at a church at the time of the shooting.

50 years ago

Nov. 6, 1967

MAGNOLIA -- Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said here Sunday that Senator John L. McClellan was attempting to distort the findings of a Senate subcommittee investigating racial disturbances by fixing the blame for riots on "agitators." Wilkins spoke before a capacity crowd of 700 at the Columbia High School auditorium at the close of the annual 2-day state NAACP conference. Wilkins said that McClellan, as chairman of the subcommittee now investigating riots, was "trying to find a way of pinning them on agitators," when the real causes were rooted in "the three areas of housing, jobs and schools."

25 years ago

Nov. 6, 1992

• Sammy Laverne Ford, 17, was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night in what may have been revenge for the drive-by slaying of a "Crips" gang member earlier in the day, a witness said Thursday. Ford was wearing a red shirt and hood -- colors associated with "Bloods" gang members -- when he was shot three times in the upper body in the 2000 block of Valentine Street, the witness said. Ford died at Arkansas Children's Hospital about an hour after the 8:40 p.m. shooting, police said. About eight hours earlier, William Guyon III, 24, had been fatally shot at 1410 Marshall St., police said.

10 years ago

Nov. 6, 2007

• A 59-year-old Little Rock man who claimed he was seduced into providing child pornography to an imprisoned Hot Springs child-killer was sentenced to five years of probation Monday. Bryan Keith Gray pleaded guilty to all charges in August. The two Class B felony counts of computer child pornography and a single C-felony charge of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child carries a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison. The judge also fined Gray $500, sentenced him to 30 days in jail and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

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