Roby Heard, 1921-1960.
Note: This is a blog post from 2010.
This is something I wrote in 2002 at the request of Det. Rick Jackson of the LAPD’s cold case unit. Jackson said that the “murder book” for 1960 was missing and that the department had no information the case, so I pulled this together from news accounts.
There was some speculation at the time of the killing that Heard had been assaulted by a couple of young self-styled Nazis who were attacked while picketing a Sammy Davis Jr. performance, but that theory was eventually abandoned. The case was eventually closed by the LAPD, and as I recall it was based on what was aired on an old TV program. One website attributes the killing to Clarence Best.
March 25, 2011: Site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire / Photograph by Eve Golden
Above, baseball and ostriches. Below, the Rev. G.W. Woodbey, an African American minister described in The Times as a rabid radical, is convicted of speaking on a street corner without a license. 
The Methodist Episcopal congregation, formed from a merger of the Centennial and Central churches, planned a wonderful new building at 22nd Street and Union. Although the congregation studied the idea of a new location, the members finally decided there was no better place than the one they had.
Note: This is an encore post from 2006.
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