buckley praises police of selma/Hailed by 5,000 Police Here as he Cites ‘Restraint’—New York Times, April 5 “The protests continued to pour in today—from the NAACP, CORE and a State Supreme Court Justice—deploring the inaction of Mayor Wagner and Police Commissioner Murphy in the face of William Buckley’s blast at civil rights demonstrators before an audience of 6,000 City policemen.”—New York Post, April 6. “Large, disquieting issues are stirred by the ovation some 6,000 New York policemen accorded a defense of the Selma police force—and an attack on Martin Luther King—delivered by William Buckley Jr., the noted thunderer of right-wing extremism. . . . The ordeals of police service in these times in no way justify the salvos of applause that greeted the impassioned apologia for the Selma possemen recited by Buckley [in his] spirited whitewash of Southern police terrorism.”—New York Post editorial, April 6.
“protests pour in on buckley speech”—New York World-Telegram, April 6.Roy Wilkins . . .asked Mayor Wagner yesterday to rebuke the almost 6,000 policemen that cheered Sunday. . . .” New York Herald Tribune, April 6.I. D. Robbins, candidate for mayor in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, called for the ouster of Police Commissioner Michael Murphy for permitting Buckley … a rabble rousing right-wing extremist . . . to address the breakfast.”—World-Telegram, April 6.
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