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A2 AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN I FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,2013
MORE OF TODAY’S TOP NEWS
Justice at last: Alabama
clears ‘Scottsboro Boys’
Blacks win pardons,
posthumously, in
notorious 1931 case.
By Phillip Rawls
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, ALA. - Al-
abama’s parole board
wrote a new ending for
the infamous “Scottsboro
Boys” rape case Thurs-
day by approving posthu-
mous pardons more than
80 years after the arrests.
The board made the
unanimous decision
during a hearing in Mont-
gomery for three black
men whose convictions
were never overturned in
a case that came to sym-
bolize. racial injustice in
the Deep South in the
1930s.
“Today, the Scotts-
boro Boys have finally re-
ceived justice,” Gov. Rob-
ert Bentley said.
Nine black males were
falsely accused of rap-
ing two white women on
a train in northeast Ala-
bama in 1931. The men
were convicted by all-
white juries, and all but
the youngest defendant
was sentenced to death.
The state senator who
got a law enacted to per-
mit posthumous pardons
said the Scottsboro Boys’
lives were ruined by a jus-
tice system that ignored
evidence, and that it was
time to right a wrong.
“We’re certainly a dif-
ferent state in the 21st
century than we were,”
Republican Sen. Arthur
Orr of Decatur, a sponsor
of the legislation that led
to the pardons, said in a
telephone interview. “To-
day is the final chapter -
and it ends on a bright-
er note - of a very trag-
Sheila Washington, director of the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center, and
Alabama state Sen. Arthur Orr celebrate in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday as the parole
board pardons three of the Scottsboro Boys. The three were among nine men falsely
accused of having raped two white women in 1931. amanda sowards/Montgomery advertiser
ic chapter in our history.”
The founder of the
Scottsboro Boys Muse-
um in Scottsboro, She-
lia Washington, said the
pardons “give the history
books a new ending - not
guilty.”
The Scottsboro Boys
case became a symbokof
the tragedies wrought by
racial injustice. Their ap-
peals resulted in U.S. Su-
preme Court rulings that
criminal defendants are
entitled to effective coun-
sel and that blacks can’t
be systematically exclud-
ed from criminal juries.
The case inspired
songs, books and films.
A Broadway musical was
staged in 2010, the same
year a museum dedicat-
ed to the case opened in
Scottsboro.
Five of the men’s con-
victions were overturned
in 1937 after one of the al-
leged victims recanted
her story. One defendant,
Clarence Norris, received
a pardon before his death
in 1976. At the time, he
was the only Scottsboro
Boy known to be alive.
In April, the Alabama
Legislatufe passed Orr’s
bill to allow the parole
board to issue posthu-
mous pardons for old cas-
es where the convictions
involved racial discrimi-
nation.
The three Scottsboro
Boys considered by the
parole board on Thurs-
day were Haywood Pat-
terson, Charles Weems
and Andy Wright.
The board said the oth-
er five - Qlen Montgom-
ery, Ozie Powell, Willie
Roberson, Eugene Wil-
liams and Roy Wright -
weren’t eligible under the
new law because their
convictions were over-
turned on appeal and the
charges dropped.
Washington said some
of the Scottsboro Boys
changed their names and
started new lives. The
museum has found the
graves of four of the nine.
The New York Times
contributed to this article.
This Boeing 747 cargo plane sits on a runway at Jabara
airport in Wichita, Kan., where its pilot mistakenly landed it
Thursday, jaime green /wichita eagle
Large plane lands
at wrong airport
ByJoshua Freed
and Roxana Hegeman
Associated Press
WICHITA, KAN.-Mo-
ments after touching
down, the pilot of a car-
go -hauling j umbo j et
seemed confused in his
exchanges with air traffic
controllers who had guid-
ed his Boeing 747 toward
a Kansas Air Force base.
When puzzled control-
lers told the pilot that he
was 9 miles north of his
intended destination, he
made an unusual admis-
sion. “Uh, yes, sir, we just
landed at the other air-
port.”
His calm, understat-
ed response belied the
dangers of the situation:
A mammoth jet had just
landed on the wrong
stretch of concrete, miles
from its planned path,
in the dark. The runway
just happened to be long
enough.
As he tried to sort out
the situation over the ra-
dio, the pilot could be
heard mixing up east
and west in his notes, ac-
knowledging he could not
read his own handwrit-
ing and getting distract-
ed from the conversation
by “looking at something
else.”
The 747, flown by a
two-person crew with
no passengers, intend-
ed to touch down late
Wednesday at McConnell
Air Force Base in Wichi-
ta, where it was supposed
to deliver parts for Boe-
ing’s new 787 Dreamliner
to a nearby company that
makes large sections of
the next-generation j et? .
Instead, the car-
go plane landed to the
north, at the smaller Col.
James Jabara Airport.
The jet took off again
Thursday and within min-
utes landed at its original
destination.
The plane flew into
an area where there are
three airports with sim-
ilar runway configura-
tions: the Air Force base,
the Jabara airfield and a
third facility in between
called Beech Airport.
That could help ex-
plain the mistake. Pilots
also say it can be tough to
tell a long runway from a
shorter one on final ap-
proach.
Jabara’s 6,100-foot run-
way is toward the low end
of what Boeing recom-
mends for the 747. Ho;w
much runway the plane
needs varies depending
on weather, the weight of
the loaded plane and the
airport’s elevation. .
The Federal Aviation
Administration planned
to investigate whether
the pilot followed con-
trollers’ instructions or
violated any federal regu-
lations.
Astronomers: Monster cosmic blast spared Earth
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Astron-
omers call it the mon-
ster. It was the biggest
and brightest cosmic ex-
plosion ever witnessed.
Had it’been closer,' Earth
would have been toast.
Orbiting telescopes
got the fireworks show
of a lifetime last spring
when they spotted what
is known as a gamma ray
burst in a far-off galaxy.
The only bigger dis-
play astronomers know
of was the Big Bang - and
no one, of course,.was
around to witness that.
“This burst was a once-
in-a-century cosmic
event,” NASA astrophys-
ics chief Paul Hertz said
Thursday.
But because this blast
was 3.7 billion light-
years away, mankind was
spared.
In fact, no one on
Earth could even see the
cosmic explosion with
the naked eye.
CORRECTION
■ A photo caption that
appeared on the front
page of Monday’s Race
Week special section mis-
identified Lotus Fl Team
driver Romain Grosjean,
who was on the right side
of the photo.
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