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II.Comprehension questions.

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1. Why did the Klan decide to organize a terrorist act against Marvin Kramer?

2. Who was involved in the plan?

3. What was each if the men responsible for?

4. What was Rollie Wedge like?

5. How was the usual operation carried out?

6. How was that operation different?

7. What were the consequences of the terrorist act?

8. Why was Sam arrested?

9. Why was Sam terrified?

10. How did the police know that Sam was involved?

11. What steps did Clovis Brazelton make to win the case?

12. Why was the first trial abandoned?

13. What was the second trial like?

14. Why wasn’t Rollie’s name mentioned?

15. Why did the second trial ended with the jury undecided?

16. How did the explosion change Marvin’s life?

17. Why wasn’t the third trial held?

18. How had the situation changed by the 1970s?

19. What two events influenced inactive Kramer bombing case?

20. what kind of a deal was Dogan offered?

21. Why was there another trial 12 years after the bombing?

22. How was it different from previous trials?

23. What kind of speech did McAllister make?

24. What was the verdict?

 

III. Reading between the lines.

What is implied?

 

1. When he returned to bed, Sam told his wife nothing. She didn’t ask.

2. The Cayhall family’s connections with the Klan went back many years.

3. Marvin had paid for the rebuilding of a black church.

4. Rollie was committed to the struggle for white power.

5. Sam’s cup shook in his hand, but Rollie’s was steady.

6. Sam preferred not to handle the explosives.

7. Wedge wanted the to know that he was in the area, watching the trial, and watching them.

8. All white juries were rare.

 

 

IV. Topics for discussion.

a. Do you think that Sam really want to kill Marvin and the twins?

b. In what way do you think Rollie Wedge manage to keep Sam and Dogan silent?

c. What do you think made Sharon Culpepper vote Sam and Dogan guilty during the second trial?

d. In what way do you think the rest of the jury tried to make her change he mind?

e. How is it possible to make your speech convincing during the t

 

 

 

Activities.

Fill in the correct names.

Sam Cayhall Jeremiah Dogan Marvin Kramer   Rollie Wedge Clovis Brazelton David McAllister

1. … was a Jewish lawyer who supported civil rights movement.

2. … Mississippi Klan leader.

3. … is on death row.

4. … was Cayhall’s and Dogan’s lawyer during the first trials.

5. … was very good at explosives.

6. … became District Attorney in Greenville in 1979.

 

Use the correct tense form.

1. Rollie’s father was in the construction industry, and he (teach) his son how to use explosives.

2. Sam (hit) the brakes hard, and the car (stop). He (try) the engine, but it

(not start). Sam (shake) with fear.

3. “Trust me, Sam, I (do) this before. We (get) an all-white jury.” Brazelton

promised.

4. Sam (walk) toward the Kramer office the ground (shake) so hard he (fall).

5. By the late 1970s many things (change).

6. McAllister told the jury how, as a child in Greenville, he (grow) with Jewish friends and (play) with black kids too.

7. Marvin decided to go to the third floor to find an old file which might help him with the case he (prepare).

8. Marvin (lead) protests against whites only facilities. He (accuse) officials of racism. He (pay)for the rebuilding of a black church.

 


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