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Vol. 10 Issue 2
March/April 1995
INSIDE
1994 Women's
Watchcare Network
Log
Women'sWatchcare
NetworkLog
he 1994 Women's Watchcare
Log marks the fifth year the
Women'sProjecthas monitored
bias-related incidents in Arkansas. We
believe that violence by white people
against people of color, by gentiles
against Jews or Protestants against
Catholics, by men against women, by
heterosexuals against gay men and
lesbians, etc., is institutionally
supported violence because the
perpetrating groups have power over
the institutions of our society and
control their policies, while the targeted
groups do not have access to full
institutional support for their lives.
As we prepare this log, the Judiciary
Committee of the Arkansas House of
Representatives is considering whether
or not to send a proposed Hate Crimes
Bill to the full House for a vote.
Those opposing this legislation voice
one of two reasons for doing so:
( 1) because they believe hate crimes
are no different from other crimes,
therefore enhanced penalties are not
necessary, or
(2) because it includes lesbians and
gay men and they think this will expose
their children to homosexuals.
Those opposing with the first
argument believe there is nothing
different about a crime committed out
of hatred. We believe there is a
Lynn Frost
difference in crimes where people are
attacked because they are part of a
group that is the target of bias and
discrimination.
We can only surmise the other
opponents believe that including sexual
orientation to describe a class of persons
to be protected by a hate crimes law
(along with race, religion, gender, etc.)
would somehow cause gay men and
lesbians to become more visible. Or
that the victims are not victims because
they "deserve" the crime based on their
sexuality.
In the February 1995 issue of Vanity
Fair magazine there is a 10-page article
detailing the brutal murders of eight
gay men in Texas since April of 1993.
Ten of the thirteen arrested in these
cases are teenagers.
In his confession to homicide
detectives, which filled 103pages when
it was transcribed, convicted murderer
Donald Aldrich said, "You could say I
got a little bit of pleasure out of it." He
decided to openly express his feelings
about gays, stating, "if I produced the
right air or the right attitude, knowing
how a lot of the cops felt towards
gays .. .it might get some of the charges
dropped ...I thought it might help me
get a lesser sentence or a lesser charge."
He miscalculated and as investigators
listened to Donald Aldrich, as they
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heard him laugh over the victim's
humiliation and suffering, and
watched Aldrich's body language,
they saw not a man who was
posturing but a man who truly had
difficulty understanding why the
victim really was a victim. As one
investigator
said, "He's
not
perceiving he's doing anything
wrong, because this is a fag. This is
not a store owner or a preacher. This
is a fag."
Most of the Texas murders,
precededby torture, were committed
by teenagers. These young men were .
not born with this kind of hate in
them. They learned to hate
homosexuals. Along with words like
"nigger," they learned words like
"fag" and "dyke." And where did
they learn this hatred? At home, in
school, and yes, even in church.
Warren Chisum, a state legislator
from Pampa, Texas, describes
homosexuality as "demeaning to the
natural nature of man. I mean,
animals don't do that."
In a nationwide study of 152
murders of homosexuals between
1992 and 1994, as reported in the
Boston Globe, December 21, 1994,
almost60% involved "extraordinary
violence" and "overkill." These
deaths were characterized
by
dismemberments,
multiple
stabbings and severe bludgeoning,
reflecting "extreme hatred or disgust
on the part of the perpetrator." The
study was done by a consortium of
23 anti-violence organizations in 30
states-including
the Women's
Project in Little Rock-and
coordinated by the New York City
Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence
Project. The report, culled from
police and news media reports,
blamed the excessively violent
killings on "messages of hate" and
intolerance toward gays.
The inevitable extension of this
rhetoric of hate is the violence of
hate. Children grow up believing it
is right to despise a particular group
of people, that they are justified in
harassing them on the street and, if
that escalates to even greater
violence, they often relish the
obvious terror they create in their
victims. They are emboldened by
the firm conviction that the Bible
and their Lord Jesus are on their
side. They are so sure of the rightness
of their cause that they do not even
bother to hide their identity, and
often brag about their deeds.
Itis importantto
rememberthat
hatecrimesare
not random
acts....Violence
and threatsof
violenceare a
key way to keep
peoplefrom
seekingtheirfull
civilrights.
We believe that crimes based on
hatred of the victim are equally
vicious and dehumanizingwhen they
happen to racial and religious
minorities, people with disabilities
and women. In 1993, the FBI found
7,684 hate crimes reported in a
survey of only 56% of the U.S.
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population. These statistics did not
include gender as one of the
motivating factors that can tum an
"ordinary" crime into a hate crime.
The Women's WatchcareNetwork
is one of the few groupsin the country
that documents gender-based
violence, and last year gender-based
violence was included in the crime
bill passed by Congress. It is included
in the proposed Arkansas legislation
as well. This is important in that it
forces us to take violence against
women more seriously in this society
where a rapist is more likelyto escape
conviction than a car thief.
It goes without saying that racial
violence continues to be a steady
pulse in this country. Also,according
. to the Anti-DefamationLeague, antisemitic acts increased by 10% last
year.
It is important to remember that
hate crimes are not random acts.
They target a person because of who
she or he is; because of what she or
he is taken to represent. As a result,
entire communities are terrorized,
provoking community unrest and
retaliatory crimes. Violence and
threats of violence are a key way to
keep people from seeking their full
civil rights.
We do this work because we
believe that all people's Ii ves should
be free from violence.
j
The1994
Women'sWatchcare
Networklog
A
documentation of sexist, racist,
homophobic and religious violence,
and the activities of the religious Right
and organized hate groups in Arkansas
Women's Project
2224 Main Street
Little Rock, AR 72206
(501) 372-5113
The Women's WatchcareNetwork
The Women's W atchcare Network, formed in 1989, is a statewide project made up of more than 200 volunteers
who bring their hope for social justice into the work of clipping newspaper reports of violence, organizing community
discussion groups, staffing data collection, and responding, often at considerable risk, to acts of violence against
people of color, Jews, Catholics, women, lesbians and gay men.
The Women's Watchcare Network has five purposes:
1. to monitor the activities of white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the activities of the religious
Right, and individual acts of racist, religious, sexist and anti-lesbian/gay violence;
2. to organize community responses to this violence in an effort to end it and create a society where all people
can live in wholeness and safety;
3. to work with communities to provide support for victims of biased violence;
4. to provide community education about the nature of biased violence and systemic oppression;
5. to work to change the institutions in this society that give us policies and values which create a climate
fostering such violence.
About The Women's WatchcareNetwork Log
The Women's Watchcare Network Log, published annually, is a documentation of sexist, racist, homophobic and
religious violence, the activities of the religious Right, and the activities of organized hate groups in Arkansas.
Our log only contains information that we can verify by naming the source. We have chosen this route to avoid
getting into the debate over the truthfulness of our information.
While this approach simplifies matters on one hand, it also means that if a victim of a hate crime is the source
of information (rather than a published report in a newspaper) and does not wish for his or her name to be divulged
at any time to any person, we are unable to use the information. This approach results in verifiable information but
also means that there are many incidents of bias violence that then go unreported by us.
The sources of information that we use for the log are all available to the public by reading newspapers, mailings
from groups that are being monitored, talking with police and prosecutors, and developing relationships with
community volunteers.
The Women's Watchcare Network is not an undercover network. We operate the Watchcare Network with the
assumption that our work is being monitored by others.
The 1994 Women's Watchcare Network Log • Page 2
All incidents are listed by the date of the first
report to appear in the media. The newspaper cited
most often is the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which
is listed as AD-G.
Sexist Murders of Women
We do not log cases of rape, incest, abduction,
battering or terroristic threatening of women. We do
not document murders of women where robbery or
drugs were the precipitating factors and we do not
document murders of women by other women.
This log reflects the murders of 69 Arkansas
women and girls in 1994. This represents a 27%
increase from 1993. Of the 69 women murdered, 42
were killed by men who were known to them.
Greenfield, January 5
Cara Be~ Hatley, 30, was shot in the head with
a semiautomatic weapon as she sat in her car.
According to police, Bart Evans, 34, shot Hatley
just as she and a friend, Teracia Traynom, 23, pulled
into his driveway. At the time of his arrest, Evans
said he shot Hatley because "she was a devil
worshiper." Police also reported that Evans said
Hatley had put a hex on him.
Evans received a 25-year prison sentence after
pleading guilty to first-degree murder. A prosecutor's
spokesman said a negotiated plea was arranged that
included the dismissal of one aggravated assault
charge for shooting at Traynom. Evans previously had
pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
1/5-9/29: Jonesboro Sun; AD-G; The Modem
News
Union Chapel, January 9
Felecia Payne, 29, was shot once in the abdomen
with a Mack 11, 9 mm handgun.
Michael Clemmons, 20, and Derrick Mitchell, 24,
were charged with first-degree murder, first-degree
battery, aggravated assault and being accomplices.
Mitchell was arrested at his home, where he was
found asleep with a Mack 11 with 16 rounds in a 30round clip and one round in the chamber. There was a
smoke grenade beside the bed.
Mitchell was sentenced to 40 years in prison for
first-degree murder, 20 years for first-degree battery,
and six years for aggravated assault.
1/9-1/12/94, 1/9-1/25/95: AD-G; Conway County
Petit Jean Country Headlight
Little Rock, January 10
The body of Teresa Grays, 28, was found in the
yard of a residence at 2026 18th St. She had been
stabbed once in the chest.
James Charles Williams, 39, was arrested and
charged with first-degree murder. Police confiscated a
7-inch knife they believe was used in the stabbing.
Neighbors reported hearing a woman screaming
and looked out their windows to see a woman lying on
the ground. Police followed a trail of blood to
Williams' room.
Williams told police that Grays had come to his
apartment to have sex in exchange for crack cocaine.
He claimed that she struck him once in the head with a
bottle during an argument.
Records show that Williams was convicted in
1984 for the stabbing death of his brother and
sentenced to 13 years in prison, but released in 1992
for good behavior.
1/10-1/11, 1/15:AD-G
West Memphis, January 24
Mary Stinnett, 35, was found dead in a vacant
apartment shortly after police received a call. The
caller told police two people were seen carrying what
looked like a body into the vacant apartment.
According to West Memphis police, William Harper,
also known as "William Shaw Cuai", was found guilty
and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
1/24: Evening Times
Houston, January 29
Kathleen Meredith, 38, was tied to her bed and
shot to death by her ex-husband, who then killed
himself.
Police found Meredith's body and the body of her
ex-husband, Richard Rogers, 26, at their home off
Arkansas 113. Kathleen Meredith was found with her
hands and legs tied to the bed and a bullet hole in her
right temple. Richard Rogers was found nearby with
a bullet hole under his chin in the throat area. He was
holding a .38-caliber pistol. Meredith and Rogers were
divorced in December 1993 and friends said that
Rogers had been causing problems for Meredith since
the divorce.
1/29-2/2: AD-G; Conway County Petit Jean
Country Headlight;
North Little Rock, January 30
Police found the body of Kendria LaShawn
The 1994 Women's Watcbcare Network Log • Page 3
Broadway, 17, at the home of her boyfriend.
Anthony Abernathy, 23, called police from a pay
phone a block from his residence and told them he and
his girlfriend had argued and she was hurt. Broadway
was dead when police and ambulance services got to
Abernathy's house.
After further investigation, police arrested
Abernathy and charged him with first-degree murder
in the apparent beating death of Broadway. Abernathy
confessed to hitting her with his fists and kicking her
with the steel-toed boots he was wearing.
During Abernathy's trial, an associate state
medical examiner said that Broadway died from
"multiple blunt-force injuries". He was convicted of
first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in
prison.
l/30-2/2,2/23-2/25/95: AD-G
Forrest City, February 1
Dallas Humphrey, 36, was shot once with a .22caliber pistol during a confrontation with an exboyfriend while visiting a friend's house ..
Bobby Sykes, 33, who shot himself in the back of
the head after shooting Humphrey was charged with
first-degree murder.
Police found Sykes lying on the kitchen floor with
a gun in his hand. He was taken to Memphis Regional
Medical Center where he was listed in critical
condition.
Sykes pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and
was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
1/31-2/1: AD-G; Times-Herald
Ozark, February 17
The body of Virginia Rains, 43, was found along
with two other bodies in the rubble of a burned house.
According to police, Rains' ex-husband, Bill
Rains, 57, shot her three times and shot George
Meador, 49, once with a small-caliber pistol before
setting her rental house on fire and apparently
committing suicide while the house burned.
Police found a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun
in the ashes of the house. Police also found letters in
which Rains detailed his plans to murder Virginia and
kill himself. These letters were addressed to several
relatives and a minister and were given to a relative to
mail if Rains failed to return to his home. The letters
made no mention of Meador.
Bill Rain's pickup truck was found 1 1/2 blocks
from the house. Meador' s car was found about four
The 1994 Women's Watchcare Network Log • Page 4
blocks from the house.
2/17-3/3: AD-G; Courier Democrat; Northwest
Arkansas Times; Country Headlight; Ozark Spectator
Jonesboro, February 22
Bridgett Ann Nosser, 23, was shot in the face
with a 16-gauge shotgun by her husband, James
Edward Nasser, 25.
According to police, the call was initially phoned
in to police as a suicide, but "evidence at the scene
depicted to officers that this may be other than
suicide."
Witnesses said Nasser and his wife had argued
before the shooting and Nasser threatened to "blow
her head off." Nasser told Detective Scott Roper he
thought the shotgun was not loaded.
Nasser pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and
was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
2/22-9/10: Jonesboro Sun
Little Rock, February 23
Tommie Wilbarger, 34, was shot with a .357caliber magnum by her ex-boyfriend.
Earl Edward Smith, 40, of Fordyce, gave a taped
statement to police admitting that he shot Wilbarger.
Police charged him with capital murder
According to police, Wilbarger left Geyer Springs
Elementary, where she was a teacher's aide, at
approximately 8:30 a.m with Smith and never
returned. Smith said he shot Wilbarger, left her body
in his car as he drove to Conway and back, checked
into a motel and went to a movie. He said he later
wrapped the body in motel bed linens and dumped it
in a bin at an apartment complex.
When police searched the dumpster in which
Smith said he had disposed of Wilbarger' s body, they
found it had already been emptied. Police had to sift
through 300,000 pounds of soggy garbage at a landfill
over several days to locate parts of Wilbarger's body.
Smith pleaded guilty and was sentenced under a
conditional plea agreement to serve life in prison for a
reduced charge of first-degree murder.
2/23-8/31, 1/15: AD-G
Lewisville, February 23
May Dell Robinson, 70s, died from stab wounds
to the back of the head in her home. She had also been
strangled according to police investigators.
According to the county sheriff, there was no sign
of forced entry and nothing was missing from the
home. Police surmise that Robinson allowed someone
in her home that night to use the telephone and felt
comfortable doing so.
Eddie Gilbert, who lived with Robinson during
the past year, called police about 10:45 p.m. after he
found Robinson's body on the living room floor.
Gilbert's name was removed from a list of suspects
after he passed a polygraph test.
Police are still waiting information from the state
Crime Laboratory.
2/23-3/2: AD-G; Texarkana Gazette
Marko Donnell Humphrey, 15, confessed to
killing Ford and was charged with first-degree
murder. Police also charged Humphrey with firstdegree battery for shooting another girl in the leg.
Reportedly, Ford and the boy had been arguing
earlier and as Ford and another girl walked down the
street about two blocks from the boy's home,
Humphrey began shooting.
3/8-11: AD-G; Augusta Advocate; Brinkley
Argus; Newport Daily Independent; Daily Citizen;
McCrory Leader
Springdale, February 24
The body of Cynthia Joan Beal, 39, was found in
a drainage ditch. According to police, she had been
strangled, stabbed and beaten.
Due to decomposition of the body, the medical
examiner was unable to determine which of the
injuries caused Beal' s death or whether she had been
sexually assaulted. Police said the stab wounds had
been caused by a small knife, possibly a pocket knife.
Beal had been reported missing to the Rogers
Police Department December 7th; she had not been
seen alive since Nov. 30th. Beal was identified by her
fingerprints.
Chief Gary Payne said police have a suspect who
is an acquaintance of Beal.
2/15-23: AD-G; Northwest Arkansas Morning
News; The Morning News; Northwest Arkansas
Times; Benton County Daily Record
Hot Springs, March 8
The nude badly decomposed body of Lisa
Grizzard, 17, was found by four boys near a shallow
creek behind a school.
Grizzard was last seen by her mother in October
and reported as a runaway. The decomposition of the
body was so advanced that determining the cause of
death proved difficult. Police said there were no leads,
suspects or motives in Grizzard's death.
3/8-4/1: AD-G; The Sentinel-Record
Fayetteville, March 6
Joyce Sue Smith, 26, was killed with a .22caliber pistol by Michael Wayne Sheeler, 36.
When police arrived, Sheeler, who said he didn't
know the gun was loaded, was trying to give
cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Smith. Police
charged him with second-degree-murder and bond
was set at $25,000.
Witness reports said Smith and Sheeler exchanged
heated words during a "beer-drinking" game.
Sheeler was sentenced to 10 years in prison after
he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
3/6-8/31: AD-G,· Northwest Arkansas Times; The
Morning News; The Northwest Arkansas Morning
News
Augusta, March 8
Shinika Ford, 13, was shot once in the back with
a 9 mm pistol and pronounced dead at the scene.
Hope, March 15
Elizabeth Cheryl Smith, 28, was shot by her
husband, Vincent Lee Smith, 31, who then shot and
killed himself.
The couple's 10-year-old son heard the shots and
called a neighbor, who found the bodies.
3/14-3/15: AD-G; Hope Star
Little Rock, March 16
The body of Sunday Stanfield, 30, was found by
her brother in the basement of an unoccupied house
with two gunshot wounds to the head.
Billy Pike, 40, also known as Bill Charles
Phillips, was arrested and charged with capital
murder. According to an eyewitness, Pike had been
smoking crack before he killed Stanfield. He accused
her of taking money from him, and beat her with the
butt of a pistol. The witness told police Pike said,
"Bitch, you're going to serve me," and then raped
Stanfield and forced her to perform oral sex.
Pike was convicted in 1984 of manslaughter in the
shooting death of Samuel Goodman and served 2 1/2
years of an eight year sentence. In 1987, Pike was
acquitted of a first-degree murder charge in another
shooting.
3/16-5/3, 1/15: AD-G
The 1994 Women's Watchcare Network Log • Page 5
Newport. April 13
Pamela K. Adams, 25, died from a single
gunshot wound to the right side of the head from a
.410-gauge shotgun.
Daniel J. McFadden, 18, Adam's boyfriend, was
charged with first-degree murder in Adams' death.
Officers recovered the gun at Adams' home.
4/13-14: AD-G, Newport Daily Independent
Hot Springs, April 18
Geraldine Brizendine, 37, and her fiance, Robert
Wallace, 39, were shot and killed by Paul Hauser,
34,with a 9mm handgun.
Hauser, who was Brizendine's ex-boyfriend,
apparently rammed his car into the back of the car
Brizendine and Wallace were in, causing it to spin in
the roadway. He then approached the car and shot
Wallace as he got out of the car. Hauser shot
Brizendine several times as she sat in the passenger
seat.
Hauser then walked into the woods and killed
himself. According to Hauser's father, Hauser had
been in love with Brizendine and was very upset that
she was planning to marry another man.
4/18-19: AD-G; The Sentinel-Record
Little Rock, April 28
The body of Geneva Watson, 42, was found in a
bedroom closet of her home by a friend.
Bobbie Jordan told police that she became
worried when she had not heard from Watson for an
entire day, and went to Watson's house. Jordan said
she knew something was wrong when she found her
friend's house in a mess.
Police believe Watson was strangled and found no
sign of forced entry. Police also said Watson's 1984
280ZX was missing. It was later found in a parking lot
at 16th and Izard Streets.
A warrant was issued for James Bennie "J.B" Lay,
43, on charges of capital murder in Watson's death.
4/28-5/8, 1/15: AD-G
Mountain Home, May 1
Elsie Slead, 53, was shot by her husband with a
.22-caliber handgun at the couple's home.
According to police, Eldon L. Slead, 69, shot his
wife and then shot himself several hours later.
5/1:AD-G
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Campbell, MO, May 4
Mary Benefield, 68, was shot with a .38-caliber
revolver.
Police found Benefield's body and the body of
Clifford Redmon, 73, in Benefield' s 1984 GMC van.
Benefield's body was found slumped over the driver's
seat with her head laying in the floor.
According to a resident of the nearby apartments,
the two were sitting in the van with the engine running
when she saw the light come on inside the van. She
said, "All at once, the man sitting in the passenger seat
pulled out a gun from someplace and shot the woman.
Then right afterwards, he put the gun up to his head
and shot himself."
Police said several people had seen the couple
earlier in the evening arguing and Redmon had pulled
a knife on Benefield.
5/4: Piggott Times
Fort Smith, May 4
Marcia Sims, 21, was strangled to death.
Police charged her husband, John Sims, 25, and
Alan Doering, 30, with capital murder. According to
police, Sims offered Doering $15,000 to assist him in
killing his wife. Capt. J.C. Ryder said Sims planned
the murder to collect his wife's life insurance policy,
of which he was the primary beneficiary.
Sims initially told police that he came home and
found his wife's body partially clothed on the bed, but
police found no evidence of forced entry. In an
affidavit, Sims told police that insurance money was
the reason for the murder. Doering admitted aiding
Sims in relocating the body after the murder.
John Sims and Alan Doering are scheduled for
trial April 10, 1995.
5/4-5/12: AD-G; Southwest Times Record; Times
Record
Fort Smith, May 4
The body of Gloria Ward, 51, was found
bludgeoned to death in an alley near an abandoned
building by police. The Sebastian County coroner said
Ward suffered bruises on her head, back and upper
body consistent with a beating.
Police charged Scotty "Scooter" McDaniel
Thomas, 45, Ward's boyfriend, with first-degree
murder after he allegedly used a cab to try to dispose
of Ward's body. A witness said Ward and Thomas
argued just hours before the body was found.
Thomas pleaded innocent to the charge of second-
degree murder. At the time of his arrest, Thomas was
in violation of his 1991 parole. He had been convicted
in 1981 for killing his roommate with a skillet.
Thomas was sentenced to 20 years in prison with
five years suspended. His sentence will run
concurrently with the 1981 murder sentence.
5/4-5/12, 12/23: AD-G; Times Record,· Log Cabin
Democrat ; Southwest Times Record
Heber Springs, May 4
Shirley Carter, 56, was shot with a .22-caliber
semiautomatic pistol.
Police charged Etheridge Leon "Bill" Carter, 68,
with first-degree murder. Carter was released on
$25,000 bond, which was then rescinded pending a
psychiatric evaluation. Trial was set to begin on Nov.
28. Carter was found competent to stand trial and was
released on bond. He was granted a change of venue
to Fulton County for trial during the week of
January.9th. On January 3rd, Carter's trial was
rescheduled for January 30th.
Shirley Carter was the third of Carter's wives to
die in four years under strange circumstances. Linda
Carter, 52, died from a gunshot wound to the head in
1992. Carter said she shot herself. Louise Carter, 63,
drowned in Greers Ferry Lake while fishing with
Carter, who said she had fallen into the water. One of
Carter's sons said that his mother told him that she
woke up one night and Bill Carter was standing over
her holding a .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle.
Shirley and Bill Carter had been married for nine
months at the time of the shooting. Bill Carter was
found guilty and given a life sentence.
5/4-11/17, 12/2, 12/7-12/8, 1/6-1/9, 2/1-2/2: ADG; Sun-Times, The News
West Memphis, May 19
The partially clothed body of Panda Bunnell, 31,
was found by a fisherman on the north side of
Interstate 55.
• 6/19: Evening Times
Old Washington, May 25
Pecola Taylor, age unknown, was shot by her
husband, Ralph Taylor, 75, with a .22-caliber rifle at
the couple's home.
Arkansas State Police troopers shot and killed
Taylor, who was holding his family hostage. Troopers
entered the house after Taylor's son stumbled through
the front door with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Pecola Taylor's body was found propped up in a kitchen
chair.
According to family members, Taylor had a
drinking problem and there were often fights in the
Taylor home.
5/24-5/25: AD-G; Hope Star
Batesville, June 4
Rita Passmore, 29, was shot as she sat in a car.
According to police, Passmore and a passenger,
Mark Williams, 21, were driving north on U.S. 167
when shots were fired at them from another car. The
two cars were stopped on the highway's shoulder
facing opposite directions when Passmore was shot.
Larry Earl Esmeyer, 48, was charged with capital
murder in the death of Passmore. According to Lt.
Marshall Taylor, Esmeyer fired six bullets into
Passmore's car, hitting her with two.The shooting
apparently happened because Esmeyer became angry
with the way Passmore was driving.
Esmeyer, of Possum Grape, was scheduled for
trial on February 21st in the Independence County
Court. He was also charged with attempted capital
murder in the wounding of Williams. During a
psychological evaluation at the Arkansas State
Hospital, Esmeyer contended that he shot Passmore
because she had a gun.
6/4-8/36, 12/1, 12/8, 2/22/95: AD-G, Batesville
Guard, White River Current
Strong, June 4
The ex-husband of Barbara Ann Moore, 37,
turned himself in to police for her shooting death.
According to police, John W. Moore, 40, waited
at his ex-wife's house and shot her in the street when
she returned home from work. Afterwards, Moore
went to the home of nearby relatives, who convinced
him to tum himself in to police.
Police also said the two had had "domestic
arguments" in the past. John Moore has been charged
with capital murder.
6/4-6/23: News-Times
North Little Rock, June 7
The decomposed body of Gwendolyn Simmons,
23, was found in a field in North Little Rock. Two
men found Simmon's skeletal remains May 15 while
inspecting swampy property they had leased.
Simmons was last heard from on April 16, when
she phoned her mother.
6/7-9: AD-G; The Times
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Forrest City, June 8
The body of Phyllis Coleman, 32, was found by
her 11-year-old son lying in a pool of blood and naked
from the waist down on a living room couch.
Cole.nan's throat had been slashed twice and there
were numerous stab wounds to her stomach.
Police arrested Tracy Louis Peters, 25, and
charged him with capital murder in the case. Peters'
fingerprints were on the murder weapon recovered by
police at the scene.
According to police, Peters was already in the St.
Francis County jail when he was charged. He was
being held for the attempted rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Police said Peters entered the girl's room naked and
held a butcher knife to the back of her neck. The girl
was able to break free, cutting Peters on the hand in
the struggle.
A trial will not be scheduled for Peters until his
mental evaluation is complete.
6/6-9: Forrest City Times Herald; AD-G
West Memphis, June 9
The body of Janice Martin, 24, was found by
police in an apartment.
Police also found the body of Terrance Tillman,
26, an acquaintance inside the apartment. Tillman,
according to police, killed Martin and then killed
himself. He left a recorded message, which helped
police piece together the murder-suicide.
6/9: Evening Times
Hot Springs, June 9
The body of Beverly Sue Patrick, 52, was found
by an employee in the back office of the convenience
store where she worked
Patrick's nude body was lying face-down and she
had been bludgeoned. According to police, the office
walls were covered with Patrick's blood. Due to the
nature of the injuries, police were not able to
determine the exact cause of death immediately, but
reported she had been beaten to death.
John Wesley Howell, 35, was charged with and
pleaded innocent to capital murder. Howell claims he
was Patrick's boyfriend until he ended the relationship
and admitted hitting her on the head several times
according to an affidavit.
6/9-7/27: The Sentinel Record,· AD-G
Forrest City, June 20
The naked body of Vicki Ladonna CollinsThe 1994 Women's Watchcare Network Log • Page 8
Jackson, 28, was found nude, lying at the foot of her
bed on her back with small bruises on her cheeks,
nose and eyebrow. Blood was coming out of her nose
and mouth.
According to police, Jerry Jackson, 32, admitted
that the couple had argued earlier in the evening and
that he had slapped her three times and kicked her
once. About 90 minutes later Jackson made a 911 call,
reporting that his wife was having trouble breathing.
Jerry Jackson was arrested and charged with
second-degree murder and released on $75,000 bond.
6/20-6/24: Forrest City Times-Herald; Evening
Times
Little Rock, June 21
Police found Diane Russey, 35, lying near the
front door of her house with a large gunshot wound to
her right arm and pellet wounds to her face and chest.
Ira Russey, 43, was charged with first-degree
murder after his estranged wife died of the gunshot
wounds. He was found guilty and was sentenced to 40
years in prison.
6/21-7/4/94, 1/15, 2/14: AD-G
North Little Rock, June 22
Belinda Hale, 41, died, June 13th, at University
Hospital a few days after she was admitted for
multiple abrasions and contusions.
According to police, Hale told family members
that her boyfriend had beat her with a two-by -four.
Later she returned home with bad bruises, so family
members took her to the hospital. Hale was treated at
the hospital and released and then re-entered the
hospital after her condition worsened. By then, Hale
was no longer able to talk, and police were never able
to interview her before her death.
Police arrested Johnny R. Nash, 41, for Hale's
death. Nash entered an innocent plea to charges of
first-degree murder.
6/22-7/6,1/15: AD-G; Northwest Arkansas Times
Pine Bluff, June 25
The body of Stacy Lashele Johnson, 22, was
found in her home. She had been stabbed once in the
chest and a telephone cord was wrapped around her
neck. When police found Johnson, her 18-month-old
daughter had been alone for 15 hours in the room with
Johnson's body.
Prosecutors charged Ivory Joe Love, 30, the
baby's uncle, with capital murder. Police documents
state that Love told police he and other relatives had
spotted Johnson's body in a window, but police were
not able to see it from that vantage. Love told police
that he took Johnson's pants off and opened her
blouse after she was stabbed but did not molest her.
Police obtained a confession from Love and
arrested him on suspicion of murder. Love pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
6/25-30, 2/7/95: AD-G; Pine Bluff Commercial;
Yellville, July 19
The body of Linda Macy, 35, was brought to the
Marion County Sheriffs Office by her husband. The
body was enclosed in plastic wrapping and sealed
with duct tape. He said his wife had drowned. Police
are investigating the case as a possible homicide.
7/19: AD-G
Pine Bluff, July 26
The body of Lisa Sanders, 27, was found in St.
Marie Park. According to the deputy coroner, Sanders
died from an apparent gunshot wound to the chest.
Police arrested three men, aged 20, 21 and 22, in
connection with Sanders' death, however their names
were not released. One man received a 60-year prison
sentence. A second man was placed on probation for
five years. And charges were dismissed for the third
man.
7/26-8/8: AD-G,· Pine Bluff News
Trumann, August 1
Betty L. Ballard, 31, was found dead outside her
home between her car and house. She had sustained
two small-caliber bullet wounds to her back.
Harvey Michael Ballard, 38, surrendered to police
in the shooting death of Ballard. According to police,
Ballard said he killed his wife because she had filed a
court order barring him from seeing his children
unless under supervision. Ballard also told authorities
that he tossed the weapon, a Ruger 10 .22-caliber
automatic, into a ditch southeast of Trumann. He said
he went to his mother's house, ate dinner, and then
turned himself in. Betty Ballard had recently filed for
a legal separation from her husband.
Ballard was charged with first degree murder. A
trial date was set for Nov.15.
8/1-3: The Modem News; Trumann Democrat;
AD-G; Courier News; Jonesboro Sun
North Little Rock, August 7
Iris L. Jones, 21, was found shot in the head,
along with Michael Jones, 24, and Betsy Annette
McGuire, 31, just hours after the three attended a
neighborhood party.
Jones and McGuire were found in the living room
and Jones was found slumped against the wall in the
bathroom.
Police said the victims may have argued with or
been threatened by the killer or killers earlier in the
week.
8/7-17: AD-G
North Little Rock, August 7
Betsey Annette McGuire, 31, was found shot in
the head, along with Michael Jones, 24, and Iris Jones,
21, just hours after the three attended a neighborhood
party.
Jones and McGuire were found in the living room
and Jones was found slumped against the wall in the
bathroom.
Police said the victims may have argued with or
been threatened by the killer or killers earlier in the
week.
8/7-17: AD-G
Petit Jean, August 24
Chenelle White, 21, was shot by her former
boyfriend at a relative's home.
Police say the two were on their way to a
relative's home when they began arguing and Mark
Clinkscale, 21, shot White as she drove into the
driveway. Clinkscale then got out of the car, which
had crashed into the house, and shot himself in the
head.
8/24: County Headlight
Little Rock, September 3
The body of Evelyn Moore, 22, was found
partially dressed and wrapped in a sheet near Sixth
and Rice streets. According to an autopsy report,
Moore was killed by a single stab wound to the chest.
Moore's mother said that she had been missing since
June 6th.
9/3-9, 1/15: AD-G
Little Rock, September 3
The body of Nancy Thompson, 31, was found in
a yard next to a vacant house on Chester Street. Police
said the remains of Thompson's cranium showed
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signs of injury.
Police suspect that a serial killer may be involved
in the murders of Thompson, Terry Wilson and
Nickolette Johnson (killed in 1993).
9/3: AD-G
Little Rock, September 3
The decomposed body of Terry Wilson, 32, was
found by police searching for two girls washed down
a drainage ditch during a flash flood.
According to police spokesperson Lt. Charles
Holladay, the body had been lying in tall weeds for
weeks and apparently had been strangled.
Wilson's mother told police that she last saw her
daughter after Wilson dropped her children off at her
mother's house.
Police suspect that a serial killer may be involved
in the murders of Wilson, Nancy Thompson, 31, and
Nickolette Johnson, 30, (killed in 1993). All three
women were prostitutes and were found beaten or
strangled to death in deserted areas of Central Little
Rock.
9/3-9/21, 1/15: AD-G
Alabam, September 4
The 7-year-old son of Billie Phillips, 35, found
his mother beaten to death at their home.
According to police, there was a struggle before
Phillips died and she was beaten very badly about the
head. Police also believe Phillips was killed by
someone she knew.
Clothing belonging to two men, her ex-husband
and the deputy prosecuting attorney for the area at the
time of the murder, has been sent to the FBI lab.
9/4-11/16, 1/12-1/19: AD-G; Madison County
Record; Northwest Arkansas Times
Piggott, September 9
Candice Russell, 35, was shot and killed with a
.357 Magnum.
Police have charged William Russell, 36, with
first-degree murder in the death of his wife, which
took place during an argument at the couple's home.
Mr. Russell's cousin, James Britt, witnessed the
incident.
Williams Russell's trial will be held in Greene
County. No date has been set for the trial.
9/9-9/21, 2/1: Clay County Democrat; Piggott
Times; Clay County Courier
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Little Rock, October 6
Dana Morrison, 22, was shot in the left eye as
she wrestled with her boyfriend, Armon Houston, 22,
over a 9mm gun at Houston's home.
At first, Houston told police that Morrison had
shot herself, but later told detectives he accidentally
shot her. According to a witness, the two were
wrestling with the pistol when it went off and Houston
was standing over Morrison saying, "I shot her. I shot
her." The witness said Houston wiped the gun off with
a towel and laid it on the floor, and then asked the
witness to tell police she had shot herself.
10/6, 1/15: AD-G
Harrison, October 7
The body of Christine Felicia Smith, 31, was
found in the swimming pool behind her home. An
autopsy later revealed that Smith had been strangled
and shot in the head with a small-caliber firearm.
Her husband, ~thony David Smith, 32, pleaded
innocent to a charge of capital murder in Smith's
death.
According to an affidavit, Christine Smith had a
$300,000 life insurance policy on her and Anthony
Smith had made statements to investigators that the
couple had numerous outstanding bills and a tight
financial situation.
10/7-21, 11/24, 1/4: AD-G; Harrison Daily Times;
Baxter Bulletin; The Daily News; Mountain Echo;
Boone County Headlight
College Station, October 8
The decomposed body of Tracie Kelley, 23, was
found by officials in a trash container in the back yard
of a residence.
No charges have been filed in her slaying and
police have not indicated whether they believe her
death is related to the killing of three men for which
her husband, Joe Kelley Jr., is charged
10/8-10/20: AD-G
Rector, October 11
The body of Aurora Carney, 51, was found
along with James Graves, 64, in his apartment by his
daughter. Both had been shot at close range in the ear
with a .38-caliber handgun.
Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
joined in the search for Walter Anthony Webb, 41, of
Blytheville, who was charged with two counts of
capital murder. Authorities said that Carney and Webb
had dated off and on for some time and had talked of
getting married.
Webb surrendered to authorities on January 3,
1995. He will be tried in Greene County Circuit Court
(Paragould). A trial has been scheduled for November
8, 1995. Authorities say that the death penalty will be
sought..
10/11-10/30, 11/18, 1/4-1/31, 2/1, 2/11: AD-G;
Clay County Democrat; Jonesboro Sun, Courier
News; Piggott Times
Omaha, October 13
Minette Maire Epps, 49, was pronounced dead
from a single gunshot wound. Boone County Sheriff
Kenneth Foley said that the woman was brought to a
local medical center by her husband, James Floyd
Epps, who said she had shot herself once in the chest
with a .380-caliber semiautomatic. Foley said that the
body had been sent to the state Crime Laboratory, and
an investigation into the death is continuing.
10/13: Boone County Headlight
Lonoke, October 19
Nina Scott, 14, was shot with a pistol in front of
her grandmother's house.
According to witnesses, Kevin V. Barnes, 18, was
brandishing a gun. Witnesses heard Barnes say, "1bis
is how Russian Roulette is played." They told police
they heard a gunshot and turned and saw Scott fall to
the ground.
Barnes, a high school senior, already facing trial
on one charge and named in a police affidavit
involving a pistol in another case, was charged with
first-degree murder. A trial has been scheduled for
March 8, 1995.
10/27-11/2: Ozark Journal; The Times Dispatch
Gurdon, October 31
Cora Maurine Young, 40, died from a gunshot
wound to her head.
Police officers arrived at the scene and discovered
Earnest Young lying on top of his wife with a pistol
pointed to her head. Young had been shot once under
the right eye with a .380-caliber handgun.
Young, 42, was charged with first degree murder.
He pleaded not guilty. Bail was set at $100,000.
10/31-11/3: Daily Siftings Herald; The Gurdon
Times
Van Buren, November 1
Diana Petree, 18, along with her 15-month-old
son Jonathan, were shot and killed with a .20-gauge
shotgun.
Petree's boyfriend, Rafael Ojeda Camargo, 30,
was charged with capital murder and held on a $2
million bond. It was later determined that Camargo is
an illegal resident of the U.S. and the bond was
rescinded.
Family members said that Camargo had abducted,
stalked and harassed Petree in the past. Petree had
filed a complaint against Camargo on Oct.17 for false
imprisonment. She said he abducted her on October
15th and took her to New Mexico. She convinced him
to return to Van Buren so she could get some money
and her son. Petree filed the complaint on the day that
she returned from New Mexico. The charge and an
arrest warrant for Camargo were not processed until
October 31st. Paperwork delays were said to be the
cause for the delay in processing the complaint. A trial
date has not been set.
11/1-11/5, 12/14: AD-G; Van Buren Press ArgusCourier, Southwest Times Record
Fayetteville, October 22
Deborah Gayle Barnes, 38, was shot with a .44caliber revolver.
When police arrived to the scene, David Lee
Williams, 40, was trying to revive Barnes, who later
died at a local hospital.
Police have charged Williams with first-degree
murder. No trial date has been set.
10/22-10/26: AD-G, Northwest Arkansas Times;
The Herald-Leader
Strong, November 8
Annie Ruth McGee, 59, was found dead in her
front yard with an ax embedded in her head.
Authorities did not know how long the body had
been in the yard. Thomas James Corley, 40, will be
charged with capital murder. Corley was working as a
handyman for McGee. Investigators believe that
McGee and Corley may have argued.
11/8-11/9: AD-G, El Dorado News-Times
Ravenden, October 27
Angela Faye Stahl, 35, was found dead in her
home from a gunshot wound.
Hernando, Mississippi, November 11
The body of Connie Mae Quinney Jones, 33,
was discovered about 40 miles south of Memphis.
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Jones' body was found soon after her head was
discovered in a yard about a quarter-mile from the
body.
Jones had been missing from West Memphis for
about two weeks. Police were unable to determine
which jurisdiction would handle the case since the
murder could have been committed in Arkansas,
Tennessee or Mississippi. Police said that Jones was
more than four months pregnant.
According to authorities in DeSoto County,
Mississiippi, the cause of death was determined as
stabbing. Ricky Hopton, of Arlington, Texas, was
arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
11/10-11/11: AD-G, West Memphis Evening
Times
Little Rock, November 16
Ogretta Mackintrush, 39, died from injuries that
suggested she was strangled.
Her husband, Walter Mackintrush, 42, told
medical workers that his wife had felt ill for several
days and fell out of bed on the morning of her death.
Police learned of the killing from the Pulaski County
deputy coroner after the victim died in a Little Rock
hospital. Coroner's officials notified police after they
examined the body and found evidence of violent
death.
A judge issued a first-degree murder warrant
shortly before Mackintrush's scheduled return from
Navy Reserve training exercises; however, he did not
return as planned.
11/16-11/19, 1/15: AD-G
Huntington, November 16
Linda Emery, 38, and Tony Emery, 44, were
found dead in their home by a niece. Crime
Laboratory results should help authorities determine
whether Tony Emery used a .357-caliber handgun to
shoot his wife in the face as she lay sleeping in her
bedroom before turning the gun on himself.
11/15-11/16: AD-G, Southwest Times Record
North Little Rock, November 28
The body of Stacy Rae Errickson, 22, was found
in a shallow grave in North Little Rock. According to
police, Marcel Wayne Williams, 24, admitted that he
abducted Errickson at a Jacksonville convenience
store and robbed, raped, beat, and choked her.
In connection with Errickson' s murder, police
have filed a capital murder charge against Williams as
well as one count of kidnapping and one count of theft
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of property. He also was charged with two counts of
kidnapping and two counts of rape in connection with
the cases of two other women. Williams pleaded
innocent to all charges.
11/28, 12/1, 12/6-12/9, 12/29: AD-G; Jacksonville
News; Cabot Star-Herald
Waldo, December 1
Tammy Carwile, 34, died from a gunshot wound
in the lower abdomen. Her boyfriend, Charles
Edwards, 33, was charged with second-degree murder
and felon in possession of a firearm (a .30-30 rifle).
Bond was set at $100,000.
12/1: AD-G
Fort Smith, December 6
The body ofMeli~a "Mi~y" Witt, 19, was
found January 13, 1995,in northern Franklin County.
She had been missing since December 1st. Witt
parked her car in the Bowling World parking lot about
6:30 p.m. on the first She had planned to meet her
mother for dinner at the bowling alley. Witt's car was
found three days later in the bowling alley parking lot.
Two witnesses said they saw a white woman and
a black man, perhaps in his twenties, arguing about
6:30 p.m. on December 1st. Police considered the
information as "a strong lead."
Sgt. David Overton, a Ft. Smith police
spokesperson, said that someone who was hunting on
December 4th reported seeing a white, college-aged
man changing clothes next to a car in the area where
Witt's body was later found. Police are now looking
for someone of that description.
A $1,000 reward for information about Witt's
disappearance has been offered by Crimestoppers
12/6-12/10, 1/12-1/20, 2/1, 1/28: AD-G; Ozark
Spectator; Southwest Times Record; Northwest
Arkansas Record; Morning News of Northwest
Arkansas; Times Record
El Dorado, December 14
The body of a woman found September 9th in
Union County is believed to be the body of Melvalyn
Doris Washington, 42, of Lewisville who has been
missing since August. Police are investigating the
death as a homicide.
12/14-12/16: AD-G, El Dorado News-Times
Pine Bluff, December 30
Zena Reynolds, 20, her mother, Ernestine
Halford, 44, and her father, Nathaniel Halford, 55,
each died from a gunshot wound to the head. Roderick
Leshaun Rankin, 19 was charged with three counts of
capital murder. Rankin's former girlfriend, Sonya
Reynolds, 17, and two toddlers hid in a closet during
the attack and were unharmed. Police said Rankin had
been threatening Sonya Reynolds since November
that if she did not continue the relationship, he would
"kill her and her whole family."
Rankin was arrested the day of the shootings and,
according to police, confessed to the crimes. A 9 mm
pistol believed to be used in the shootings was found.
In a circuit court hearing, Rankin pleaded
innocent to the charges.
12/28-12/31, 1/4-1/15: AD-G; Pine Bluff
Commercial; Pine Bluff News
Pine Bluff, December 30
Ernestine Halford, 44, her daughter, Zena
Reynolds, 20, and her husband, Nathaniel Halford, 55,
each died from a gunshot wound to the head. Roderick
Leshaun Rankin, 19, was charged with three counts of
capital murder. Rankin's former girlfriend, Sonya
Reynolds, 17, and two toddlers hid in a closet during
the attack and were unharmed. Police said Rankin had
been threatening Sonya Reynolds since November
that if she did not continue their relationship, he
would "kill her and her whole family."
Rankinwas arrested the day of the shootings and,
according to police, confessed to the crimes. A 9 mm
pistol believed to be used in the shootings was found.
In a circuit court hearing, Rankin pleaded
innocent to the charges.
12/28-12/31, 1/4-1/15: AD-G; Pine Bluff
Commercial; Pine Bluff News
Hope, January 1
On December 31st, Perline Peevy, 74, was found
dead at her residence by her granddaughter. Police are
investigating her death as a murder.
1994 Murders
Cause of Death
Age of Victim
Handgun
0-9
Shotgun
Strangulation
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
Beating
Burning
Other/Unknown
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
Other Gun
Stabbing
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
25
90+
Unknown
Relationship to Victim
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Race of Victim
Husband
Ex-husband
1
AmericanIndian
Boyfriend
Ex-boyfriend
Black
Stranger
Relative
Unknown
White
21
Acquaintance
0
5
10
15
20
25
0
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
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Sexist Climate
Jonesboro, April 18
John Mangieri, president of Arkansas State
University, was fired after allegations of sexual
misconduct and insubordination.
In public statements to the university's board, two
secretaries said they witnessed Mangieri masturbating
in his office on separate occasions. One of the
secretaries also stated that Mangieri sexually harassed
her by asking her about something he called the "test."
She said he asked, "If you could have any person
other than your husband laying next to you at night,
who would it be?" Mangieri produced doctors'
statements that stated he had been impotent since
1987 because of removal of a tumor from Mangieri's
pituitary gland.
4/8-17: AD-G; Arkansas Times
Little Rock, April 15
A man emptied Diego's HogsBreath Cantina by
spraying pepper spray because a waitress ignored his
sexual advances. The man sprayed down the bar, but
no one was directly hit.
4/15: AD-G
Little Rock, May 10
Joe Robert Wesson, 46, became the first person in
Central Arkansas to be sentenced to five years in
prison under the state's new stalking law.
Wesson was accused of threatening and making
harassing phone calls to a former girlfriend from April
20, 1993, to May 10, 1993.
5/10: Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, July 23
A federal court jury awarded $94,900 to three
women in a sexual-harassment case against the
Bobbisox club.
Debra Green, Holly Goff Thomas and Crystal
Howard claimed the club's former manager, Scott
Miller, made sexual comments to and about them and
touched them inappropriately.
7/23-24: Northwest Arkansas Times; The Morning
News
Little Rock, July 31
According to the director of a mental health
agency, security guards at the State Hospital bungled
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the investigation of an alleged rape. The incident,
which occurred at Hendrix Hall, was not reported by
officers in a written report and the crime scene was
not preserved or protected in any way. Also, the
hospital did not notify the state police until a week
later.
7/31: AD-G
Little Rock, December 9
A Media column article in the Arkansas Times,
took Wally Hall to task for asking in his December
7th Democrat-Gazette column "how many times does
this have to happen before ladies understand the
potential problems and danger of being alone in an allmale dorm?" The remarks are related to the incident
in the University of Arkansas athletic dormitory that
resulted in a charge of attempted rape against
DeAnthony Hall. The incident is described in the next
paragraph.
An 18-year-old woman accompanied two 17-yearold females to the dormitory where they were escorted
inside by two members of the football team. The
woman had consensual sex with one football player
while three of his teammates watched through a
bathroom door. Later the woman and Hall came into a
sexual contact that led to the charged filed against
Hall.
12/9: Arkansas Times
Berryville, December 24
Tim Miller, who serves as building inspector and
supervisor of water and streets, pleaded no contest to a
misdemeanor sexual harassment charge. An incident
at the home of a Berryville woman on August 10th led
to the charge.
12/24: AD-G
Lonoke County, December 28
Charges were filed against Doug Callahan, 41, of
Crossett, alleging that he stalked his ex-wife.
According to County Prosecuting Attorney Larry
Cook, the Callahan case is the first Lonoke County
stalking case filed in circuit court.
12/28: Cabot Star-Herald
Conway, January 4, 1995
The University of Central Arkansas fired a parttime sociology instructor who was accused of sexual
harassment. Michael Davis was fired in December
1994. Michelle Crawford, who was a student in
Davis' class, filed the complaint.
The University Sexual Harassment Complaint
Committee heard statements from both Davis and
Crawford. The Committee unanimously determined
that Crawford's ability to obtain an education was
affected by Davis' actions.
2/4/95: AD-G
Walnut Ridge, January 5, 1995
Robert Jean, 34, pleaded guilty to a charge of
first-degree violation of a minor. Jean was charged for
having consensual sex with a 17-year-old female who
was a student at the Wal nut Ridge school where he
served as football coach, athletic director, and
physical education teacher. He received a 10-year
suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay a
$25,000 fine within 60 days, move from his
neighborhood within two months, and avoid contact
with the minor. Jean had been suspended from his
teaching/coaching job last September and was arrested
a week after his suspension.
1/5/95: AD-G
Racist Violence
Included here are incidents in which people of
color are victimized by white people.
Greenland, February 11
Frank Wimer, a Greenland Elementary principal
was arrested and charged with endangering the
welfare of a minor and second-degree assault.
Authorities say Wimer allegedly grabbed a 10-yearold Chicano student by the throat, slapped his head
three or four times, kicked him in the ribs and struck
his head against the floor.
2/11: AD-G
Watts, March 4
Donald Beartrack was found dead on the roadside
of U.S. 59 with two gunshot wounds to the head from
a SKS rifle.
Brett Adams, 23, Russell Murray, 21, and Joe
Dale, 25 were charged with first-degree murder.
On March 1, Beartrack left the Eufaula Indian
School, where he was a student, and told friends he
was going to hitchhike to his mother's home.
According to investigators, the three men allegedly
picked Beartrack up near Checotah at about 9 p.m.
March 3.
Police found the men's license plate number
written on Beartrack's arm.
The Cherokee national Tribal Council and
Principal Chief Wilma P. Mankiller have asked for an
investigation to determine if the murder was based on
racism.
3/4-4/6: The Herald-Leader
Racist Climate
Jonesboro, January 12
Black parents voiced complaints to the local
school board about the way in which black students
are being treated in the Jonesboro school district.
Robbie Lyle, organizer of the parental group
RESPECT (Rights in Education for Students, Parents,
and Educated Citizens of Tomorrow) said, "White
teachers don't value black kids."
Superintendent Bill Beasley said the school's
administration would establish a committee to look
into the problem.
1/12: AD-G
Little Rock, January 13
Forty-two of the 111 public schools in Pulaski
County do not comply with racial ratio guidelines set
in the desegregation plans of the county's three school
districts.
Thirty-one of those schools are in the Little Rock
School District. According to the report on racial ratio
compliance submitted to U.S. District Judge Susan
Weber Wright, enrollment in all three school districts
has declined over the past six years.
1/13: AD-G
Pine Bluff, February 27
African-American parents complained to the Pine
Bluff City Council that their teen-agers are being
harassed by mall security at The Pines mall.
Mall officials denied the allegation, and said there
have always been mall rules, but they have been
better enforced in recent years. Mall rules state that
loitering, standing in groups larger than five people
and wearing certain clothes, hats and accessories are
prohibited.
Parents say these rules are geared toward AfricanAmerican youth only.
2/27: Pine Bluff Commercial
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Conway, March, 16
An unidentified person painted racial slurs and
anti-Jewish remarks on the north stairwell of Short
Hall at the University of Central Arkansas.
3/16: UCA Echo
Little Rock, March 19
Lt. Ivan Whitfield, president of the Fraternal
Order of Police, said that a recent vote to sell the FOP
lodge was racially motivated. Whitfield said that
rumors were spread that there were gang members
present at a Superbowl party attended by officers at
the lodge. After the party, white FOP members voted
to sell the lodge, which Whitfield said "was a show of
power to show they can dictate the motions and lock
down the lodge so no one can attend."
Sam Brock, vice president of the group, said he
did not see the vote as racially motivated.
3/19: AD-G
Arkadelphia, April 13
According to reports made to the ACLU, three
INS agents in an unmarked car and five uniformed
police officers forced their way into a local residence.
They did not have any warrants and did not ask for
consent to search the residence. Eight men were taken
into custody, but no criminal charges were ever filed.
4113:ACLU
Pine Bluff, April 11
Two patrolmen were placed on administrative
leave with pay regarding an incident in which the two
were accused in a complaint of beating an AfricanAmerican teenager.
Wilma Reynolds filed the complaint against
Officers Robert Rawlinson and Hershel Shipman after
her son, Terjun Parker, said the two asked him to
remove a baseball cap, handcuffed him, grabbed him
by the neck, slammed him against a wall and kicked
him. Parker also said Shipman took out his revolver
and the two sprayed pepper spray in his face.
In police reports, the two officers said they had to
use force to subdue Parker because he had threatened
to shoot the officers and refused to leave the mall.
4/11: Pine Bluff Commercial
Little Rock, May 18
Mayor Jim Dailey and two city board directors
wrote letters apologizing for statements made by another
board director. Ward 2 Director Carl Scheibner
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questioned the financial background of Chinese
investors who attempted to buy the Camelot Hotel.
Scheibner based his questioning on the origin of
the investors. Although the mayor has apologized,
Scheibner says he will not. "I pointed out that a great
number of them make their living from the drug trade.
Anybody that's been in the Far East very much knows
this to be true. Why stick our heads in sand and
pretend like we don't know what's going on just
because they're flashing millions of dollars in front of
us," Scheibner said.
5/18: AD-G
Little Rock, May 26
A handwritten anonymous note was sent through
interdepartmental mail to Sgt. Glenn King of the Little
Rock Police Department, which included a picture of
thousands of Rwandan refugees, stating they would
make good recruits.
This incident follows criticism of a new
affirmative action program by the Fraternal Order of
Police earlier this year. The FOP sees the program as
lowering the department's hiring standards.
5/26: AD-G
Little Rock, July 23
A new police unit intended to curb violent crime
is being called racist by some city activists. Attorney
John Walker labeled the 26-officer Zero Tolerance
Task Force "a KGB type of response." However
Police Chief Louie Caudell and city board member
John Lewellen say the unit is what the city needs to
stop the high crime rate and provide some type of
relief to citizens. Lewellen disagreed with Walker's
claim that the task force is racist, saying, "It's directed
at criminal activity all over the city."
The task force ended its first week with 95 arrests,
with 79 of those arrested being blacks. Walker said,
"This is consistent with my predictions. It's a one-race
arrest program. When you say zero tolerance, it's zero
tolerance for black people."
7/23-30: AD-G
Springdale, July 24
Some members of the Springdale City Council
and other citizens have put forth a very extreme idea
to handle the recent influx of Hispanic persons
moving into the town: hire an officer with a gun. Over
the past few years, a large number of Hispanic persons
have moved to Northwest Arkansas to work in the
poultry industry. Many Springdale residents have been
complaining, particularly about the number of
Mexican people living in one house.
According to chief building inspector Bob Mayes,
an "officer" is needed to enforce overcrowding code
requirements because there will "eventually be a drug
deal." Resident, Bonnie Martin said, "If they are going
to live in Arkansas, they've got to learn to live like we
do," in complaining about the Mexicans who live
near her.
7/24:AD-G
Little Rock, July 25
A task force to address the issue of race relations
in Little Rock is battling with City Hall because
members of the group do not want a new Racial and
Cultural Diversity.Commission to work out of City
Hall. The group also refuses to share the commission
employee with the National Conference of Christians
and Jews.
Three members of the NCCJ resigned from the
race relations task force after this refusal. One of those
who resigned, Alfred Williams, said, "It didn't seem
like we wanted to work together anymore. If it's not
done as a community, it will not be successful."
City Manager Charles Nickerson said he believed
the NCCJ would be valuable to the commission and
that there is a fear of working with City Hall.
7/25-29: AD-G
Waldron, August 2
Mayor Jim Lassiter is worried that the upcoming
move of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees
from Oklahoma to Arkansas will bring gaming,
tobacco, and liquor stores to his town. The mayor said
these fears could be alleviated if the tribe were willing
to sign a written agreement promising they would not
engage in these types of activities.
Cherokee Chief John Ross says the mayor's fears
are unfounded and he sees no reason why the tribe
should sign any type of written agreement with the city.
8/2:AD-G
Little Rock, August 10
According to Eddie Collins, assistant
superintendent for pupil personnel, minority
suspensions in the Pulaski County Special School
District increased 5 percent over the 1992-93 school
year. While the district's racial makeup is only 30
percent black, 51 percent of suspensions involved
minorities.
8/10: AD-G
Little Rock, August 17
There has been a great deal of debate over Gov.
Tucker's legislative package on crime. Many of the
black House Judiciary Committee members feel
portions of the bill would target blacks; in particular,
House Bill 1005. This bill would allow authorities the
right to question juveniles without the consent or
knowledge of their parents.
8/17: AD-G
Morrilton, August 25
A federal magistrate ruled that the city
discriminated against Gloria Leapheartt, an African
American, when it refused to hire her for the
Morrilton Police Department. The judge ordered the
city to hire Leapheart and pay her $23,923.24 in back
wages.
8/25: AD-G
Pine Bluff, September 2
Black activists are demanding that a statue outside
the Jefferson County Courthouse be removed. The
statue honors David 0. Dodd, who was hanged in
1864 for spying for the Confederacy, and many feel it
is offensive to the black residents of Pine Bluff.
912:AD-G
Junction City, September 15
School Superintendent, Alvin Kelly announced
that he had received a letter from the Dallas branch of
the Office of Civil Rights which stated that the school
district discriminated against black students.
According to the letter, the district was guilty of a
number of discriminatory practices including:
discriminating against black professionals in
assignments, subjecting black female students to
harassment and intimidation, discriminating against
black students in the implementation of transportation
policies, discriminating against black students in
extracurricular activities by denying them the right to
serve as cheerleaders, student council members or
homecoming queens.
9/15: AD-G
Hot Springs, September 23
The local chapter of the NAACP and two Hot
Springs city directors have said that City Director Pat
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Patterson should resign for allegedly making a racist
statement following an excutive session.
According to Director Peggy Maruthur, Patterson
made remarks following an interview with a potential
city manager. Patterson expressed concerns that the
candidate's wife might not be white and allegedly
stated that it would be an embarrassment for the city if
she were not white.
Patterson has not denied making the comments,
but in a press conference said, "If my remarks
offended anyone, I apologize."
9/23-10/13: The Sentinel-Record; Little Rock Free
Press
Jacksonville, October 17
A federal judge has barred Jacksonville from
providing inferior park services to its black residents.
In his judgment, U.S. District Judge Warren K.
Urbom also ordered the city's Parks and Recreation
Department to keep a written record of work
performed at Jacksonville's 10 parks. The judgment
was issued three weeks after Urbom, a visiting judge
from Lincoln, Neb., found Jacksonville guilty ofrace
discrimination for allowing Johnson Park to
deteriorate.
10/17-11/16: AD-G; Jacksonville Patriot
Hot Springs, October 26
Coy's restaurant and the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission settled a race discrimination
lawsuit. Coy's was sued by the EEOC in 1989 for
allegedly refusing to hire black employees into the
better positions at its restaurants, such as waiters. The
consent decree required the restaurant to post a notice
of its intent to comply with the settlement, offer Gary
McVay a job as a waiter in the restaurant, pay $20,000
in damages to McVay and 17 other blacks who
claimed they were denied employment because of race
and to employ at least two qualified black applicants
among the next six restaurant hires. After that the
restaurant will make a good-faith effort to employ
blacks in the "front of the house" positions such as
host, hostess, waiter, and cashier as they become
available.
10/26: AD-G
Pine Bluff, November 19
A federal magistrate approved a $5.5 million
settlement in a lawsuit accusing the Army of
discriminating against black workers at the Pine Bluff
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Arsenal. U.S. Magistrate Henry L. Jones Jr. cleared
the way for 220 people to eventually receive payments
ranging from $2,300 to nearly $68,000. Jones made
his decision more than 21 years after Richard E.
Goldman opened the case against the Army and 11
years after U.S. District Judge Oren Harris found the
Army had engaged in a pattern of discrimination in
the placement and promotion of black employees.
11/19: AD-G
Conway, December 8
Keathley Enterprises paid $5,000 to Henry J.
Mitchell to settle a federal government housing
lawsuit. Mitchell claimed that Keathley Enterprises
offered to allow several of his white friends to pick up
keys and look at available apartments but when
Mitchell, whose is black, went to pick up keys to view
apartments on two separate occasions he was told, on
the first occasion, that no apartment was available
and, on the second occasion, that he could not get a
key because a tenant had left possessions in the
apartment.
Mitchell complained to the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development. The federal
government then filed the lawsuit. Keathley
Enterprises denies that it discriminated against
Mitchell.
12/8: AD-G
Little Rock, December 16
The Little Rock School Board reaffirmed the
provision in the existing teacher contract that gives
teachers the option to bar disruptive students from
their classrooms. The provision requires the teacher, a
parent, and the principal to meet within 48 hours to
discuss resolving the behavior problem. In 1993, 319
black students, about 90% of the 353 total, were
barred from their classrooms.
12/16: AD-G
Little Rock, December 21
A federal discrimination lawsuit was filed by
Capts. Richard Day, Pulaski County jail administrator,
and Calvin Hollowell, the jail's official spokesperson
and supervisor of several areas of the jail. Sheriff-elect
Randy Johnson included the two African Americans
on his list of officials not to be reappointed.
The suit claims that the captains' consitutional
rights to equal protection and free speech were
violated by the intended firings. Sheriff-elect Johnson,
County Judge Buddy Villines, and the Pulaski County
Quorun Court were name as defendents.
Hallowell and Day allege that Johnson was
displeased that they had informed U.S. District Judge
George Howard, Jr., of overcrowding at the county
jail.
Judge Howard temporarily barred Johnson from
firing Hollowell and Day and set a January 6 trial date
for the suit. Johnson requested additional preparation
time. The trial was rescheduled for March 13th.
Howard again barred Johnson from firing the two men
until the outcome of the trial.
Both Day and Hollowell have successfully sued
county officials on the basis of racial discrimination.
Pulaski County agreed to pay Day $7,000 in 1993 and
Hollowell $150,000 in 1988.
Anti-Gay and Lesbian Violence
We document incidents in which lesbians and gay
men are victimized by heterosexuals, where violence
or the threat of violence are present.
Little Rock, February 26
Ronnie Hugh Smith, 58, was found dead in his
home. He received 23 blows to the scalp and seven
other wounds to the head area which left his jaw
broken and his face bruised. According to authorities,
Bobby Joe Kimble, 29, admitted striking Smith once
with a hammer after Smith allegedly "made a pass at
him." Kimble and Smith met at a tavern, Midtown
Billiards. When Smith learned that Kimble was
homeless, he felt sorry for him and invited Kimble to
spend the night at his house.
Kimble entered a negotiated guilty plea to escape
a possible death sentence if a jury convicted him of
capital murder. The charge wasn't reduced, but he was
given life in prison with no chance of parole, a
sentence handed down by the Circuit Court Judge at
the prosecutor's request.
2/26/94-2/4/95: AD-G
Fort Smith, March 11
A group of teen-agers in a car near a bar threw
eggs and other items at a gay male who had come out
of the bar.
The car had Oklahoma license plates.
2/11: NGLTF Abuse Report Form
Fort Smith, May 14
An 18-year-old male and a friend were attacked at
Darby Junior High School after attending a play. As
the two stepped outside the building, they were
attacked by 4 or 5 black males and females and 1
white male because the group thought they were gay.
The two were bruised in the face and head and
had to be hospitalized for up to a week because of a
broken jaw, and other bruises from kicks with steeltoed shoes.
Two persons were arrested
5/12: Eyewitness Account
Dallas, Texas, August 25
Authorities arrested an Arkansas parolee, Edwin
B. Perkins, in the murders of two Dallas-area gay
men. Irving police found similarities in the deaths of
Larry Allen and Paul Quintanilla, Jr. Both men were
stabbed all over their nude bodies. Perkins was
charged in the stabbing death of Allen and remained
in the Irving City jail without bond.
Dallas Detective Tom Rowan said, "I don't think
they are crimes of passion. I think it's someone who's
got it in for the gay community."
8/25: AD-G
Anti-Gay/Lesbian Climate
These indicate the prevailing anti-gay/lesbian
attitudes in the state that imply it is not right to be gay
or lesbian, not right to be the person you are. Arkansas
is one of 22 states in which sodomy laws make samegender sexual activity illegal. Such attitudes promote
and legitimize the harassment, threats and violence
perpetrated against lesbians and gay men.
Little Rock, January 9
In the "Announcements" section of the Fellowship
Bible Church newsletter there was an announcement
that there is a Little Rock chapter of Homosexuals
Anonymous. This group "is a support for those who
wish to find freedom from homosexuality," according
to the newsletter.
1/9: Fellowship Bible Church newsletter
Little Rock, January 20
John Robert Starr writes, " ...up until now, at least,
most transmission of the AIDS virus has taken place
while two individuals were sodomizing one another.
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Heterosexual sex may be catching up, but usually
there is a bi-sexual involved somewhere in the chain."
1/20: AD-G
Little Rock, January 25
John Robert Starr reprinted the letter of a reader,
who wrote, "I'm not homophobic, but I find it difficult
to sympathize with a group that refuses to
acknowledge that there is a consequence for their
actions and can't blame anyone but Ronald Reagan
for the fact they're killing themselves."
1/25: AD-G
Springdale, February 24
Marcus McDonald mailed a letter around the state
encouraging people to buy a book for $5 that he
advertises as "the most precise and complete book on
homosexuality today."
In the letter, McDonald states, "I want to share
the truth with you concerning the most dangerous
threat to our nation and our religious freedom since
Hitler, Stalin, or the Clintons."
2/24: Witness Account. 3/18-8/19: AD-G;
Arkansas Times
Tucker, May 4
A prisoner filed a lawsuit against the state because
he was denied access to Penthouse magazine.
Alexander Stewart, 40, is asking for uncensored
copies of the magazine.
He was denied the September 1993 issue because it
depicted two women engaged in lesbian activity. Prison
Warden Bruce E. Collins said the magazine wasn't
given to Jones because it depicted homosexual behavior
he believed violated the state's anti-sodomy law.
5/4:AD-G
Little Rock, August 18
The Arkansas prison system has declared that the
September issue of Playboy magazine be barred from
some prisoners because of a feature depicting two
women in erotic poses. The article was titled "A Walk
on the Bi Side." Prison officials could not confirm the
censorship of Playboy but did acknowledge that other
magazines, including Penthouse and Genesis, have
been barred from the prisons in recent months, due to
contents ruled to be in violation of the state's antisodomy law.
8/18: Arkansas Times
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Jacksonville, September 20
In a June interview, Congressional candidate Bill
Powell explained that discrimination was justified in
some circumstances. "Homosexuality is not a natural
state. It's not morally equivalent. I don't want any
special legislation for gays."
9/20: Jacksonville Patriot
Little Rock, September 22
After consulting with staff, board and community
members, Children's Museum of Arkansas director
Putter Bert decided that the photo of lesbian moms
should not be included in the museum's current
"Families: A Celebration of Diversity" exhibit. The
photo is on display in Bert's office and can be viewed
on request.
9/22: Arkansas Times
Little Rock, December 30
The Arkansas Times included Rev. Fred Phelps of
Topeka, KS, in its list of "worst boors." Phelps was
included because of his protest of President Clinton's
gays-in-the-military proposals. The protest was staged
at the funeral of Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley
12/30: Arkansas Times
Anti-Semitic Climate
Marshall, Minn., January 25
An ex-Arkansan has been linked to anti-Semitic
fliers distributed to residents.
At least 1,000 Marshall residents have received
anti-Semitic mail addressed to "postal customer" with
a return address of Our Savior's Church of
Gainesville, Mo. Authorities believe the mailings
come from Gordon Winrod, who was suspended from
the First Lutheran Church in Little Rock in 1961.
Winrod has called for "killing all Jews" as the
solution to America's social and economic problems.
1/22: AD-G
Conway, March, 16
An unidentified person painted racial slurs and
anti-Jewish remarks on the north stairwell of Short
Hall at the University of Central Arkansas.
3/16: UCA Echo
Little Rock, August 1
The Jewish Federation of Arkansas received a
newsletter from the Committee for Open Debate on
the Holocaust, a revisionist history group which
denies that the Holocaust ever occurred.
8/1: Copy of newsletter
Bias Against People with HIV
& Other Disabilities
Conway, March 18
A judge ruled that the children of Lisa Mc Clung
must not be in the physical presence of her brother,
Anthony Bonds, because he has AIDS.
This ruling came after the father, Kirn McClung,
signed an affidavit alleging that his children were in
danger at their mother's home. He also stated that
Bonds had bruised one of the children and the child
had tripped over a pole supporting an intravenous
tube.
At that point Circuit-Chancery Judge Watson
Villines of Conway ordered that the children be
removed from the mother's home. Later, Judge Lynn
Plemmons allowed the return of the children to the
home but ordered they not be in physical contact
with Bonds.
McClung filed a federal lawsuit contending that
the judge violated the federal Americans with
Disabilities Act by barring her children from their
uncle. A chancery court judge ruled that the two
children could have "casual contact" with their uncle.
The judge's ruling left unresolved the issue of whether
a court could remove children from a home of a
custodial parent where a person with AIDS also lives.
U.S. District Judge Elsijane Trimble Roy
dismissed McClung's lawsuit because Plemmons is no
longer involved in the case.
5/28-6/23, 1/24/95: AD-G
Little Rock, July 7
Almost one year to the day that the original Ryan
White Center in Little Rock was destroyed by fire,
employees and volunteers arrived to find the center
riddled with bullets.
7/7: Little Rock Free Press
Bryant, August 29
Bryant Elementary School officials began
notifying parents that one of its kindergarten students
has AIDS. According to the superintendent, the
decision was the "best approach" to fight
misconceptions about the disease.
However, Brenda Bell, president of the board of
directors of the Arkansas AIDS Foundation, said the
decision was unfortunate and could only lead to
identification of the child.
Local school officials said that they have invited
the physician treating the kindergartner to a meeting
to address parents' concerns about the disease.
8/29-9/9: AD-G
Berryville, September 8
In the first AIDS-related crime to be charged in
Carroll County, a 24-year-old Berryville woman was
arrested for allegedly knowingly exposing two men to
HIV. The woman has denied the charges.
9/8-10/26: The Star-Progress; AD-G
Hot Springs, September 23
A retired state policeman filed a lawsuit against
the Hot Springs Village Property Owners Association
and Cooper Communities Inc. claiming they are
responsible for a list naming people who are
ostensibly HIV positive F.V. "Pete" Kimery claims
the list was posted on a bulletin board at two Hot
Springs Village fire stations and at the property
owners association's headquarters.
9/23-9/30: AD-G; Little Rock Free Press
Little Rock, December 2
U.S. District Judge George Howard, Jr., granted a
motion that resulted in a class-action lawsuit on behalf
of all disabled Arkansan voters. The lawsuit claims
that disabled voters in Arkansas are denied equal
access to voting faciilities because many of the state's
polling places are not accessible to disabled voters.
Election commissioners in the state's 75 counties
have been named as defendants in the suit which
clairnes that the commissions fail to offer
accornodations for disabled voters to cast ballots in
secrecy. Judge Howard designated election
commissioners in Pulaski, Saline, and Hot Springs
counties as class representatives for the defendants.
12/2: AD-G
Little Rock, December 30
An article in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette
discussed the level of compliance in Arkansas with the
Americans with Disabilities Act, a 1990 federal law
requiring increased access for the disabled which
included a January 26, 1995, deadline for cornplaince. In
North Little Rock, five community centers as well as
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three structures in Burns Park. Ft. Smith and Hot Springs
will not have new park restrooms or elevators before the
deadline. In Little Rock,the Capitol does not meet the
law's requirements for emergency evacuation routes.
After January 26, 1995, disabled citizens can sue
local governments that do not provide adequate access
to all government services.
12/30: AD-G
Ft. Smith, January 13, 1995
On December 9, 1994, prosecutors charged Pierre
Laverne Weaver, 30, with two counts of exposing
someone to HIV. The charge carries a penalty of six to
30 years in prison, a $5,000 fine, or both. It is the first
such case filed in the Ft. Smith area.
Weaver had unprotected sexual relations with two
women after he was informed by the Sebastian
County Health Department in August 1993 that he had
HIV. Police believe that Weaver may be living in
Atlanta.
1/13/95: AD-G
Police Brutality
Little Rock, February 22
A MEMS paramedic who responded to the
shooting of Victor Cole by a police detective reported
that he asked police twice to take handcuffs off of
Cole so he could work on him. He also stated in the
report that Cole's feet were also bound.
Cole had been shot by the detective after he shot
another officer's dog and bit that officer's finger off.
The question of Cole's handcuffs surfaced after
emergency personnel at the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences reported having to get an officer
from the hospital's staff to unlock the handcuffs.
Dr. Thomas Braswell, the doctor who treated
Cole, said, "because of the handcuffs, paramedics
weren't able to start IV fluids to help maintain blood
pressure."
Lt. Charles Holladay of the Little Rock Police
Department said, "We're trying to determine if proper
procedure was followed in dealing with him and see if
there's anything we could have done differently."
2/20-24: AD-G; Arkansas Times
Rogers, March 2
Retired police officer, Darryl Lee Brock was
charged with one count of rape for raping a girl during
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seven years while on the police force.
Authorities say that Brock had sex with a girl
younger than 14 from 1979 to 1986. His arrest
followed a five-month investigation by police and the
Benton County prosecutor's office.
3/2: AD-G
Little Rock, March 26
Lt. Jason Shook, former chief investigator in the
6th Judicial Drug Task Force, was put on 90-day
suspension for shoving a prisoner and allowing
another officer to hit the prisoner.
3/26: AD-G
El Dorado, April 12
Officer Charles R. Smith was fired because he
recently confessed to allegations of abusing his 13year-old son. Although Smith was found innocent of
misdemeanor child endangerment charges, the El
Dorado Civil Service Commission upheld the decision
to fire Smith.
Smith said the alleged abuse was his way of
disciplining the boy. Smith said he made the boy
smoke five cigarettes at one time while wearing a
five-gallon plastic bucket on his head because he
could not make him stop smoking. He also said he
handcuffed the boy to prevent him from removing the
bucket.
4/12: El Dorado News-Times
Pine Bluff, April 15
Two policeman were placed on suspension
without pay during an investigation into a teen-ager' s
allegations that the two beat him at The Pines mall.
Terjun Tramaine Parker claims Officers Bob
Rawlinson and Hershel Shipman beat him after he
refused to remove a wool cap he had bought at a store
in the mall.
Both officers admit that they may have
"overreacted" in the situation.
4/15: Pine Bluff Commercial
North Little Rock, May 15
Samuel Lee Jackson, 40, was the second North
Little Rock jail detainee to die in one week. Jackson
was found on the floor of his cell just 1Ominutes after
jailers say they had checked on him.
Five days prior to Jackson's death, a woman
detainee became ill in her cell, was treated at Baptist
Medical Center and returned to her cell, and later died.
5/15: AD-G
Little Rock, June 1
Police fired 23 shots at Lavert Brown and killed
him on his front porch. Police were called to Brown's
home after his wife called 911. According to police,
Brown cocked a .25-caliber pistol and pointed it at an
officer before he was shot.
After the shooting, Brown's wife stumbled
outside with a bullet wound to the leg. According to
her and police, Brown may have been wounded by
gunfire from the police and not her husband.
6/1: AD-G
Little Rock, June 7
The mothers of Antonio Mornes, 15, and Maurice
Shavers, 14, filed a complaint with the Little Rock
Police Department accusing two police officers of
using excessive force and racial slurs while arresting
the teen-agers. They also alleged that the officers
arrested the teens without cause.
According to the complaint, the two were walking
home when a police car sped up and Officers Charles
Weaver and Stephen Gorbet arrested them for no
reason.
However, the officers say they were responding to
a fight in the area and saw the two fighting. They also
admit spraying Mornes with pepper spray, but deny
choking or hitting the two.
6/7:AD-G
Mena, June 29
Part-time policeman Gary Ray Martin, 31 is being
held on $100,000 bond in the rape of a teen-age girl.
According to Sheriff Mike Oglesby, Martin
admitted to molesting the girl and "to having a
problem."
6/29: AD-G
Little Rock, July 21
A black attorney is suing a jailer and Sheriff
Carroll Gravett. Attorney R.S. McCullough says that
he was not allowed to visit with a client at the Little
Rock Jail because of his race. Apparently the jailer,
K.C. Russell, asked the lawyer for identification and
still refused to allow him in to see his client.
7/21: AD-G
El Dorado, August 19
A Union County man, Wesley Selmon, was killed
by Union County Deputy Sheriff Trent Sinclair on
July 29. The confrontation occurred inside Selmon's
residence. Selmon allegedly struck Sinclair in the face
and aimed a .44 caliber rifle at the deputy.
An Arkansas State Police investigator concluded
that Sinclait fired three shots. A preliminary state
medical examiner's report indicated that Selmon had
four wounds from at least three gunshots. Union
County Coroner Ron Southall noted that "there are
discrepancies in some of this that just have to be
worked out."
8/19: News Times
Little Rock, August 30
Little Rock Police Officer Vincent Morgan
resigned from the police force following charges that
he raped a woman. While Morgan admits he had
sexual relations with the woman, he denied having
raped her.
According to the woman, Morgan pulled her over
at 12th and Woodrow streets for having a broken tail
light. She told Morgan her insurance papers were at
home, and he agreed to follow her to her house. While
inside, Morgan began allegedly kissing and fondling
her breasts and then raped her.
In 1993 Morgan was suspended for 10 days for
having sex with another cadet while on duty.
8/30-9/1: AD-G
West Memphis, September 11
Police are investigating the shooting of John
Boone by a police officer. According to a police
spokesperson, Officer David Fields and another
officer came upon a drug deal between Boone and
another person. When both ran, the officers followed
and Field shot Boone after seeing what he believed to
be a weapon. However, no weapons other than the
officers' were found at the scene.
9/11: AD-G
Rogers, September 15
Richard A. Duffy, 34, filed a suit against Benton
County Sheriff Andy Lee, Nelson Erdmann, and the
county government claiming that excessive force was
used while he was being arrested. The suit stems from
a June 24, 1991, confrontation when Erdmann and
another deputy served a warrant for Duffy's arrest on
a charge of theft of property which was subsequently
dismissed.
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According to Duffy's wife, Erdmann grabbed
Duffy around the neck, threw him down, and pounded
his head against the concrete. Richard Duffy said that
he required six stitches above his left eye.
Duffy is seeking unspecified compensatory
damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.
9/15: Northwest Arkansas Morning News
Pine Bluff, September 24
Police Chief Joe Thomas released the results of an
Internal Affairs investigation Friday he reviewed
before suspending Officer Charles Motsinger for 30
days without pay. In a letter to Motsinger, Thomas
wrote that Motsinger' s explanation that he kicked a
suspect in the head Aug. 2 near The Pines mall to stun
and subdue him contradicted the training of the Police
Department.
9/24: Pine Bluff Commercial
Forrest City, October 15
Army Sergeant David Rogers was arrested while
visiting his sister in the Indian Hills Apartment
Complex north of Forrest City. There was a brief
altercation between Rogers and Lt. Bobby Carter, who
identified himself as a policeman but did not show
either a badge or ID card to Rogers. According to
Rogers, Carter grabbed him as Rogers turned to walk
away. Rogers admits that he reacted by bodyslamming Carter who subsequently arrested Rogers.
The NAACP commented that Rogers' only crime
seems to be "standing up for his first amendment right
and not succumbing to intimidation because someone
says they are police, but offer no proof." The
organization had received a number of complaints
about living conditions in the apartment complex with
respect to infringement on the personal rights of
residents.
10/15: Homeland
Little Rock, December 20
Debra R. Currens has filed a civil lawsuit
accusing former Gould police chief, Robert L. Danzy
of sexual harassment. Currens alleges that Danzy
made lewd comments to her, touched her hair and
shoulders in a "suggestive manner", and exposed
himself on two occasions. She also said that city
officials failed to discipline Danzy and also retaliated
against her by changing her schedule and trying to
suspend her. She eventually quit her job.
Currens is seeking reinstatement with back pay
and other actual and punitive damages. Danzy, Mayor
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A.B. Allen, and the city of Gould are named in the
suit
Danzy was previously convicted of two
misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure. He was
sentenced to 10 days in jail, with eight days
suspended, and fined $1,000. He is appealing his
conviction.
12/20: AD-G
Hate Group Activity
Conway, January 1
A newspaper published by the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan which protested the celebration of the Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday was handed
out in a Conway shopping center. According to the
paper, the Klan plans rallies in Springfield, Ill.,
Topeka, Kan., Austin, Texas, Columbus, Ohio,
Denver, Colo., Little Rock, Ark., Montgomery, Ala.,,
and Tallahassee, Fla.
1/1: Witness Statement and Copy of Newspaper
Little Rock, January 16
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan staged a protest
rally on the steps of the state Capitol to oppose the
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday but found themselves
outnumbered about 15-to-1 by anti-Klan
demonstrators.
Thomas Robb, the group's national director, said
the group opposed the King holiday because "he
shouldn't be considered a national hero."
The group was outnumbered by about 200
demonstrators who held silent vigils and jeered the
Klanspeakers.
1/6-16: AD-G
North Little Rock, February 6
An article written by Tony Alamo was left on cars
at the Lakewood Apartments.
The literature accuses the government and the
Catholic church of plotting to commit genocide on the
Christians of the United States. Alamo states, "They
believe they must destroy the world in order to save
it."
2/6: Intolerance by Tony Alamo
El Dorado, March 27
Delta Press Ltd. is distributing a catalog with
dozens of books on how to kill. One book "21
Techniques of Silent Killing", gives instructions on
use of the spike and the fighting knife.
The company lists its incorporator as Billy Blann.
Blann became publicly known when he began selling
a T-shirt showing a mushroom cloud and the words,
"Made in America ...Tested in Japan."
3/27: Cox News Service
Little Rock, March 30
In issue No. 94 of the White Patriot, the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan featured a report on Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The report, written by Dr. Ed Fields, accuses King
of sabotaging the Vietnam War, being a communist
and "practicing bizarre sex acts." The article also
called for the "opening of the King file."
3/30: White Patriot
Little Rock, March 30
Along with the White Patriot, the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan mailed out flyers announcing its
Patriots Day Picnic, to be held May 27-29. The fliers
read, "The Patriots Day Picnic is open to anyone that
wants to come ... If you want to have a great time with
other White Christians who love our race, faith and
homeland, then you need to make plans to attend."
3/30: Ku Klux Klan
Little Rock, April 29
A federal appeals court ruled that former
American Nazi Party member Ralph Forbes had a
First Amendment right to participate in a television
forum for congressional candidates in 1992. Arkansas
Educational Television Network asked the 8th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling. The
Supreme Court let stand the circuit court ruling, which
noted that "Forbes did have a qualified right of access
created by AETN's sponsorship of a debate, and ...
AETN must have a legitimate reason to exclude him
strong enough to survive First Amendment scrutiny."
4/29-11/8: AD-G; Log Cabin Democrat; Arkansas
Times
Little Rock, May 3
Former American Nazi Party member Ralph
Forbes filed as an independent candidate for the 3rd
U.S. Congressional District seat.
Forbes calls himself a "Christ supremacist" and
said "I support white rights activities, but it doesn't
mean I hate people of other races."
5/3: AD-G
Conway, May 24
According to KKK Faulkner County Coordinator
Larry Tedford the KKK has had a 60 percent growth
of members in Faulkner County over the last two
years. "We had one of the first active klan dens in
Central Arkansas at Vilonia and interest seems to be
picking up rapidly throughout the county."
5/24: Log Cabin Democrat
Vilona, May 27
The Adopt A Highway sign along the stretch of
highway adopted by the Ku Klux Klan has been the
target of vandalism. Someone sprayed white paint
over the signs. On four other occasions, the signs were
removed.
5/27: AD-G
Little Rock, June 4
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was denied a
permit to hold a rally at the state Capitol on June 18th.
However, Secretary of State Bill Mccuen says that the
Klan will be allowed to hold the rally on another date
if they rethink their plans to sue.
The Klan found allies in the Arkansas chapter of
the American Civil Liberties Union, whose executive
director said "What the Klan is planning may be
offensive and obnoxious, all citizens have a right to
free speech."
McCuen said that the Klan will be allowed to hold
its rally but must meet specific times and criteria.
6/4-11: AD-G; Pine Bluff Commercial
New York (Little Rock), June 9
According to a report issued by the AntiDefamation League (AOL), there has been a split in
the ranks of the largest chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Federated Knights are a newly formed group
of Klansman who believe the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan has grown too soft and wish to go back to some
of the older tactics of the Klan.
6/4: Arkansas State Press
Little Rock, June 18
The following was handed out at a rally at the
state Capitol:
KKK Hot Line!
Keep up with all the fast-paced news and events
happening in the world of Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan.
1-900-726-4896
The cost of this call is $1.99 a minute.
6/18: Eyewitness Account; KKK flier
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Little Rock, June 18
At a rally on the front steps of the state Capitol,
members of the Ku Klux Klan handed out their
newspaper.
Toe "introductory" issue carried headlines such as
"Does the Klan hate Negroes?" and "Is the KKK
violent?" in an effort to put forth the Klan's rhetoric
of being concerned with preserving white heritage and
American ideals.
One article states, "The Klan is based on love not
hate."
6/18: This is the Klan
Little Rock, June 18
Fewer than 100 people attended the Ku Klux Klan
rally, which was held at the state Capitol the same day
the Juneteenth (annual celebration of the freedom of
slaves) was being celebrated across town.
Robert "Say" McIntosh protested and spoke after
the Klan rally, but there were no incidents of violence.
The group held a similar rally in Conway earlier that
day.
6/18: AD-G; Log Cabin Democrat
Conway, June 18
About 15 members of the Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan held a rally on the steps of the Faulkner County
Courthouse and were met by a group of 20 counterprotesters.
6/19: Log Cabin Democrat
Little Rock, July
Issue No. 94 of the Ku Klux Klan newspaper
White Patriot carried the picture of a black man
convicted of rape and the headline, "This could be
your grandmother." Another headline about
immigration read, "Immigration will ruin America."
The paper also carried an article about the book,
Time on the Cross: Toe Economics of American
Negro Slavery. According to the author, Robert Fogel,
slaves led better and healthier lives than free blacks in
northern cities.
7194: White Patriot
Harrison, July 31
Former national security director of the Ku Klux
Klan, Ed Novak, has resigned the Thom Robb branch
of the KKK after Robb accused him of credit card
fraud. Novak has also accused Robb of embezzling
$4,600 of membership contributions.
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Robb's daughter, Rachel Robb, has taken Novak's
former position.
7/31: Center for Democratic Renewal Activist
Update
Memphis, August 9
Evangelist Tony Alamo was convicted on income
tax charges and is accused of preying sexually on the
young members of his church.
8/9:AD-G
Bentonville, September 11
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan members held rallies
at the courthouses of Washington and Benton
counties. At the Benton rally Thom Robb, head of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, declared that American
politicians have betrayed the nation by opening its
borders to immigrants. Robb also stated, "Our
forefathers gave us America, my friends. It doesn't
belong to these faggots. It doesn't belong to the
Mexicans. It doesn't belong to the Asians. It belongs
to you!"
About 30-40 Klan members attended each rally.
75 counterprotesters faced the Klan in Bentonville and
about 150 protestors faced the Klan in Fayetteville. A
Clowns Against the KKKwas held earlier in the day
in Fayetteville to poke fun at the KKK.
9/2-9/11: AD-G; The Morning News; Northwest
Arkansas Times; Benton County Daily Record;
Northwest Arkansas Morning News
Fayetteville, September 11
An editorial in the Northwest Arkansas Times
addressed recent rallies sponsored by the Ku Klux
Klan. The opinion was offered that "much damage" is
done any time the Klan publicly appeals for "support
and acceptance and membership." The editorial
raised the question of why organizations, such as the
KKK, that are founded on hate still appeal to people in
our society.
9/11: Northwest Arkansas Times
Little Rock, October 1
White supremacist Ralph Forbes lost a bid to get
on the ballot as an Independent candidate for attorney
general. After a hearing, U.S. District Judge Susan
Weber Wright refused to order the state to either put
Forbes on the ballot or delay the election until new
ballots could be printed.
10/1-11/3: AD-G; The Courier
Greenwood, Miss., October 26
Thom Robb, National Ku Klux Klan director, is
going to court this week on charges stemming from
activities in Greenwood, Miss. Robb said that he will
sign an affidavit against David Jordan, president of the
Greenwood City Council, who led 75 people in a
counterdemonstration. Robb said Jordan shoved him
before Robb's news conference. Robb, who with
another Klan member was arrested minutes after the
face-off with Jordan, predicted he would be cleared of
disorderly conduct charges.
10/26: AD-G
Harrison, October
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held their
annual Klan Congress. According to Thom Robb,
members representing Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,
Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio,
Arkansas, California, Washington, New Jersey,
Mississippi, Colorado, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri,
Utah, Kentucky, Georgia, Oregon, Iowa,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kansas and North Carolina
attended.
10/94: White Patriot
Arkansas' Religious Right
The upsurge of the Religious Right in Arkansas is
part of a disturbing trend nationally that moves
beyond respect for individual religious beliefs into the
creation of an agenda which attempts to impose the
world view of one religious group onto all others. This
political agenda is the creation of a theocracy - an
attack on pluralism, religious freedom, and ultimately,
democracy itself.
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Box 2440
107 Parkgate
Tupelo, MS 38803
Founded and led by Donald Wildmon, AFA
specializes in leading corporate boycotts. The AF A's
main interests are pornography, homosexuality,
adultery, sex, art and the media.
Arkansas Affiliate
AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION
Box 9076
Jonesboro, AR 72403
932-5065
Arkansas Director: Bobby L. Hester
Jonesboro, February
AF A announced the airing of a weekly 30-minute
television program, "Conservative Concerns," devoted
to coverage of such issues as school "restructuring,
Arkansas Governor's School, gun control and
declining family values" on Northeast Arkansas cable
television channels.
State director Bobby Hester writes that "our chief
accomplishment has been to clear hard-core illegal
pornographic videos from 71 of Arkansas' 75
counties." He also writes about AFA's ongoing
campaign against the Governor's School, "We will
continue to work on this project and we still hope to
see the school shut down."
February: AF A Newsletter
Jonesboro.March
According to the American Family Association,
an eleventh-hour blitz by Arkansans in support of
home-schooling and private schools helped stop HR 6,
a bill that would have required teachers to be certified
under the jurisdiction of their state by July 1, 1998.
March: AF A Newsletter
Jonesboro, July
American Family Association testified before an
Interim Joint Educational Committee meeting to
protest the Governor's School. AF A was invited to
address the committee again in September.
July: AFA Newsletter
Jonesboro, October
The October issue of the AF A newsletter
contained a petition to Gov. Jim Guy Tucker asking
that the operation of the Governor's School be halted.
October: AFA Newsletter
CHRISTIAN CIVIC FOUNDATION OF
ARKANSAS
8300 Geyer Springs Road, Suite 201
Little Rock, AR 72209
Executive Director: Larry L. Page
Associate Director: Bob Hayes
Formed in 1959, the Christian Civic Foundation
focuses on pornography, gambling and alcoholic
beverages. In 1989 the foundation enlarged its agenda
to deal with "attacks on the traditional family,
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abortion, euthanasia, secular humanism and other
matters adversely affecting the morality of society."
They work closely with organizations such as Family,
Life, America and God (FLAG) and the Family
Council.
They were active in the 1992 Legislature on
numerous issues including resisting efforts to repeal
the sodomy law and fighting efforts to include gays
and lesbians in the civil rights bill.
The Christian Civic Foundation has a companion
organization, the Christian Civic Action Committee,
which is designed to serve as a legislative action
organization that lobbies for the passage of laws that
"uphold traditional values and will oppose legislation
which will be harmful."
In 1994, the Christian Civic Action Committee
took the lead in organizing opposition to three
gambling-related ballot initiatives. All measures were
stricken from the ballot prior to the election.
Little Rock, January 19
The owner of a Little Rock adult book and video
store agreed to close the store's doors for good within
60 days in exchange for a fine and probation. Larry
Page, director of Christian Civic Foundation, said
"There's no need to stop now. There's an abundance
of hard-core pornography in our area, and we're going
to encourage the law enforcement entities within the
community to continue enforcement of the laws."
1/19/94: ADG
Little Rock, April 28
An ad placed in the Arkansas Times urged
Arkansans to vote against casino and lottery gambling
amendments by refusing to sign petitions.
4/28/94: Arkansas Times
Little Rock, May 5
Rev. Don Moore, executive director of the
Arkansas Baptist Convention and a member of the
Christian Civic Foundation, sent letters to Arkansas
Baptist pastors "urging them to ask their church
members not to sign the (legalized gambling)
petition," according to a May 5 edition of the
Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine.
5/5/94: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Little Rock, July 26
The last of four people arrested in a March raid on
a Pulaski County adult video store was convicted on
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obscenity charges. Arcade owner Jean Williams said
that Larry Page, Christian Civic Foundation director,
orchestrated the store's shutdown. Page acknowledged
that "I, along with several others, had inquired about
the enforcement of the obscenity laws. I certainly
played a part in initiating the investigation."
7/26/94: ADG
Little Rock, July 28
In a letter asking for contributions, the Christian
Civic Foundation laid out its 1995 legislative agenda.
It detailed proposed actions related to alcohol,
euthanasia, abortion, obscenity, sodomy, and gay and
lesbian civil rights.
7/28: CCF Letter
CHRISTIAN COALITION
Box 1990
Chesapeake, VA 23327
Founded in 1989 by Pat Robertson. Other
Robertson groups include: Christian Broadcast
Network and the American Center for Law and
Justice, the 700 Club and Regent University (formerly
CBN University).
Arkansas Affiliate
ARKANSAS CHRISTIAN COALITION
Box 25922
Little Rock, AR 72221
State Executive Director: Bob Myshka
Pulaski County Director: Randy Schoening
The Arkansas Christian Coalition has local
chapters in eight counties. The state chapter was
organized less than two years ago. According to the
Bob Myshka, the organization's only paid staff
member, the Arkansas Christian Coalition does not
know how many dues-paying members the
organization has, but "something in excess of 5,000
Arkansans have been identified by the national
organization." The Christian Coalition of Pulaski
County meets monthly at the Terry Library in west
Little Rock.
July
The Christian Coalition Congressional Scorecard
was mailed to Arkansans and rated the Congress on
issues such as school prayer, banning gays from the
military, and the Elders nomination for surgeon
general. According to the scorecard, Senators Dale
Bumpers and David Pryor scored 14 points out of 100
(
possible. Arkansas Congressmembers Blanche
Lambert and Ray Thornton scored 36, compared with
Tim Hutchinson and Jay Dickey who scored 100.
7/94: Christian Coalition Mailing
EAGLE FORUM
316 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Suite 302
Washington, DC 20003
Founded and led by Phyllis Schlafly, the
organization is best known for its successful campaign
against the equal rights amendment
Arkansas Affiliate
FAMILY, LIFE, AMERICA, GOD (FLAG)
Box 21065
Little Rock, AR 72221
227-5566
State Director: Marilyn Simmons
FLAG produces a monthly newsletter and
provides educational information and lobbying on
such issues as homosexuality and school prayer.
Little Rock, April
A flier announced the 1994 Central Arkansas
FLAG Leadership Seminar, which covered such
topics as "how your rights can be taken away by local
government programs and how your child will be
affected by Outcome-Based Education."
April: Copy of Flier
FELLOWSIDP BIBLE CHURCH
12601 Hinson Road
Little Rock, AR 72212
Pastor: Dr. Robert Lewis
Runs television spots on family values issues, led
successful boycott of Spectrum over personal ads and
worked with the Family Council to organize Little
Rock's Life Chain.
Little Rock, January 21 and 22
In ads placed in the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette,
Fellowship Bible Church invited Arkansans to join
hands at the intersection of Capitol and Main streets as
part of a Human Life Chain protesting abortion.
1/22: ADG
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
Colorado Springs, Colo. 80995
Founded and led by James Dobson
Founder James Dobson is best known as an
advocate of traditional discipline and corporal
punishment for children. However, his organization
has also been active in anti-homosexual organizing
since 1988.
Focus on the Family publishes a monthly
newsletter and broadcasts radio programs throughout
the country. Twenty-four radio stations throughout
Arkansas carry Focus on the Family programming.
Arkansas Affiliate
FAMILY COUNCIL
1300 Westpark Drive
Suite 5-B
Little Rock, AR 72204
President: Jerry Cox
Newsletter inserted in Focus on the Family's
publication, Citizen.
Sponsors the Arkansas Citizen, a monthly
publication; the Family Council Resource Center,
which gives Arka.t)sansaccess to books, audiotapes
and videos pertaining to the family unit; Family
Forum Live, a monthly live satellite TV transmission
of meetings of conservative leaders, Congress
members, and policy-makers discussing traditional
values; the Family Council Radio Program, currently
in the planning stages; Community Impact
Committees, to be established in churches throughout
the state; The Action Chain, a computerized calling
system that activates a statewide network of
individuals who receive information on current profamily issues, legislation and events; statewide profamily advertising; and lobbying through the Family
Council Action Committee
January
Family Council has launched a new project to
compile and publish an "Index of Leading Cultural
Indicators" for Arkansas. The report will offer an
assessment of the social and moral health of Arkansas.
1/94: Family Council Letter
February 20
"Urgent, private and home school alert ...
Immediate action is needed," said a letter from the
Family Council Action Committee in Little Rock,
which opposed HR6, a bill that would require
certification of the nation's teachers. Home-schoolers
believe that the bill would affect children taught at
home or in private schools.
2/20:ADG
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February
The Family Council warned its readers about the
activities of the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network
(RAIN), an organization that provides care teams for
people living with AIDS as well as conducts
numerous speaking engagements at area schools. The
Council objected to RAIN talking about abstinence
and proper condom use.
2/94: Family Council Letter
February
Family Council helped a group of concerned
parents in Amity (near Arkadelphia) win a victory in
their school district that resulted in the passage of a
policy prohibiting the dispensing of condoms at their
school.
2/94: Family Council Letter
March
Family Council will be working with other "profamily groups" to conduct surveys of candidates
running for the Arkansas Legislature and other
statewide offices.
Additionally, the Family Council is mailing the
Arkansas Family Times church bulletin to
approximately 90 churches in an effort to expand
work through its Community Impact Committees.
3/94: Family Council Letter
May
The Family Council mailed "Decision 1994 Primary Election Voter Guide." The guide was
prepared in conjunction with Christian Civic
Foundation, FLAG, Arkansas Christian Home
Education Association and the Christian Coalition and
asked candidates to give their views on such topics as
school prayer, abortion and homosexuality.
5/94: Copy of Voter's Guide
July
Family Council is considering distributing
500,000 copies of their voter guide as a two-page
insert in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on the
Sunday before the November general elections as well
as in every newspaper in Arkansas.
The Family Council is mailing the Arkansas
Family Times church bulletin to approximately 200
churches on a monthly basis. The Family Council has
also added another service called the Family News
Alert, a weekly mailing with information from Focus
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on the Family, Family Research Council, Heritage
Foundation and the American Life League.
7/94: Family Council Letter
September
The Family Council warned its readers about the
activities of the Women's Project and said, "it is
especially disturbing that we are funding an
organization with our tax dollars that seeks to tear
down the very institution we are trying to build up the traditional family."
9/94: Arkansas Citizen
October
The Family Council distributed almost 100,000
Family Council Voter's Guides through its network of
churches, 400,000 were published in approximately
20 newspapers, and direct mailed 6,000 to households
across the state.
10/94: Family C~uncil Letter
November
The Family Council hosted a free seminar for
individuals interested in learning about lobbying.
Featured speakers included Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee,
state Sen. George Hopkins, state Rep. Phil Wyrick,
attorney Rob Shafer and representatives from FLAG
and the Family Council.
The Arkansas Family Forum featured guest
speaker Thelma Moton, founder and director of Excel.
11/94: Family Council Letter
FRIENDS OF LIFE
Box 882
Cabot, AR 72023
State Director: Theresa Qualls
In 1992, Friends of Life distributed 130 leaflets
titled "A killer in your neighborhood" to neighbors of
Dr. Curtis Stover of Little Rock Family Planning
Services. Friends of Life also targeted Stover's clinic
director, Carolyn Izard, and Carol Nokes from the
Arkansas Coalition for Choice. The graphic antiabortion leaflets are geared toward organizing
neighbors against abortion rights advocates.
January 30
Ten anti-abortion demonstrators picketed outside
of a fund-raiser for Planned Parenthood of Greater
Arkansas.
January: Eyewitness Report
Property of the Center
KVTN-TV, CHANNEL 25
Agape Church
701 Napa Valley Drive
Little Rock, Arkansas
Pastor: Happy Caldwell
KVTN provides 24-hour Christian programming,
including a Victory Message Board that lists the
activities of church and Christian organizations.
Little Rock, February
"America's Godly Heritage," a program that
encourages Christians to run for public office, was
aired by KVTN throughout the state on February 8th
and February 10th. The program's narrator, David
Barton, is the founder of Wall builders, a ministry
"dedicated to rebuilding God's principles in public
affairs."
1/23: Copy of Flier, 2/94: Promotions on KVTN
Other Religious Right Activities
Hot Springs, January 1994
Rev. Fred Phelps, minister of the Westboro
Baptist Church and Library in Topeka, Kan.,
demonstrated at the funeral of President Clinton's
mother, Virginia Kelley, to protest Clinton's stand on
gays in the military. Phelps is well known nationally
for disrupting the funerals of people who died from
AIDS-related causes.
2/23: ADG
Little Rock, January
Approximately 10,000 abortion foes rallied
against Roe vs. Wade at a march organized by
Arkansas Right to Life at the state Capitol. March
speakers denounced President Clinton's health-care
plan.
1/24: ADG
Fayetteville, January 4
More than 40 people addressed the Fayetteville
School Board concerning the district's proposed
policy on prayer in school. Winston Simpson,
Superintendent, said that the rough-draft policy he
submitted to the Board is no different from current
practice in the schools. Most of the people who spoke
at the meeting contended that there is a difference
between student-initiated prayers at school functions
and school-sponsored prayer at school functions.
Morton Gitelman, distinguished professor of law the
the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, said that
student-initiated prayer disenfranchises students of
minority religious beliefs and violates the First
Amendment.
On February 24th, the School Board adopted a
revised policy which addresses only school-sponsored
prayer; the issue of student-initiated prayer at school
events is not discussed. Rudy Moore, attorney for the
School Board, advised that the "safest course is not to
adopt a provision on student-initiated prayer."
1/4-2/24: AD-G
Jonesboro, January 13
Terry Riley, owner of the Magick Moon
Bookstore, filed a lawsuit against four ministers
including Rev. Terry Schakelaar, Wood Spring
Church of the Nazarene; Rev. Stan Ballard, Nettleton
Baptist Church; Rev. Robert Wortmiller and Rev.
John Utley, Wood Street Assembly of God. He
alleged that the ministers conspired to keep landlords
in Jonesboro from'renting him a building.
Riley and his wife, Deanna, lost their store, in
which they sold books on witchcraft, tarot, potions
and magic wands, when Steven Griffin evicted them
from the space they had rented from Griffin's father.
Riley is seeking $10,000 in lost earnings and
$250,000 in punitive damages.
1/13/3/24: Arkansas Times; AD-G
Conway, January 20
More than 800 calls, only a handful of them
complaints, were made to the Arkansas Educational
Television Network after its airing Jan. 10-12 of a
series set in San Francisco. Tales of the City, an
American Playhouse series based on the writings of
the same title by Armistead Mauphin, came under
strong attack from the American Family Association.
AETN, the local PBS affiliate, heavily edited the
program, which drew the largest number of
complaints. PBS later announced that it would not
continue with plans for a second series based on
Mauphin's works.
1/20:ADG
Little Rock, January 21
AIDS prevention courses taught in the Mountain
Home School District do not conflict with state and
federal law, the state attorney general's office found.
In November, 1993 Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee
requested an opinion on behalf of parents who
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objected to the courses.
1/21: ADG
Little Rock, February
Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee proclaimed the week of
Feb.27 through March 5 Christian Heritage Week in
Arkansas. Approximately 300 people attended a Feb.
27th ceremony in the state Capitol Rotunda including
U.S. Congressman Tim Hutchinson, Lt. Gov.
Huckabee, state Senators Stanley Russ and Jim Keet
and state Representatives Mark Riable and Bob
Fairchild.
The event was organized by Altheimer attorney
Brenda Vassaur Taylor, a member of a loosely
organized group called Arkansas Christians for
America, which ran advertisements in newspapers
during the 1992 presidential campaign criticizing Bill
Clinton.
2/94: Letter from the Family Council; 2/14: ADG
Fort Smith, February 4
Fort Smith attorney Oscar Stilley began
circulating petitions in January to place a proposed
voucher amendment to the state constitution on the
Nov. 8 general election ballot. Parents of privateschool students would receive vouchers calculated
from the average amounts spent on public-school
students in their areas.
2/4:ADG
February 18
The first statewide convention for Arkansas
Collegians for Life was scheduled for Feb. 19.
1/18: Arkansas United Methodist
Conway, February 19
Hendrix College officials are investigating an
apparently bogus Republican group that solicited
donations nationwide from abortion rights advocates.
The solicitation, sent via Internet, a national computer
network, asked that donations be sent to a Hendrix
campus post office box rented by an abortion
opponent and another student.
2/19:ADG
Fayetteville, February 24
The Fayetteville School Board has traded a
confusing policy on prayer at school events for one
that says nothing. Heeding the advice of its attorney,
the board chose to "stand silent" on the issue of
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student-initiated prayer while rewriting its policy.
Those decisions are now solely in the hands of school
administrators.
2/24:ADG
Little Rock March
Oliver North is scheduled to be the keynote
speaker for the Arkansas Baptist School Systems 1994
Partners in Excellence Spring Banquet on April 25.
March: FLAG Newsletter
Little Rock, March 3
Lt. Gov. Mike Huckabee has invited Arkansas
seniors to attend a town meeting on health-care reform
and attend a reception for the United Seniors
Association. United Seniors was founded by archconservative Richard Viguerie, known for pioneer
direct-mail fund-raising to funnel cash to his own forprofit company. Other speakers at the rally were to
include state Auditor Julia Hughes Jones and state
Representative Mark Riable.
3/3: Arkansas Times
Beebe, March 16
An elementary school textbook is still on order at
Beebe despite objections by 15 or more parents about
references to supernatural influence and "globalism."
3/16: ADG
Little Rock, March 31
Arkansas and 10 other states are set to defy a
deadline set by the Clinton administration to begin
using Medicaid money for poor women's abortions in
cases of rape and incest.
3/31: ADG
Little Rock, April 7
Lt. Governor Mike Huckabee said he would
cancel a scheduled speech to the Council for
Conservative Citizens if another speaker, Houstonbased lawyer and holocaust revisionist Kirk Lyons,
appeared. Huckabee said that the invitation was one of
dozens of speaking requests he receives each week.
"This is one we may not have known enough about."
Huckabee sent a videotaped greeting to the council for
its meeting last year.
4/7: ADG; Council for Conservative Citizens
Newsletter
Little Rock, April 16
Randall Terry, leader of the militant anti-abortion
group, Operation Rescue, made stops in Little Rock
and Texarkana on a nine-city tour aimed at scandals in
the "wicked" Clinton administration The group also
protested at the Rose Law Firm and Clinton's
Arkansas place of worship, Immanuel Baptist Church.
4/16:ADG
Harrison, April 24
About 75 people attended a rally sponsored by the
Arkansas Teachers Association, a group whose
purpose is to reassure conservative Christian teachers
that they are not alone. The rally was attended by
representatives from the American Family
Association, Call for Action, Christian Coalition,
Citizens for Excellence in Education, Concerned
Citizens Action Committee, Family Council and
FLAG.
A spokesperson said that although ATA is an
independent association, it works closely with
William Bennett's Empower America, the National
Right to Work Committee, the Family Council, the
Christian Coalition, Concerned Women of America,
National Association of Christian Administrators and
other conservative groups.
4/24: Harrison Daily Times
Benton, May 3
Arkansans have formed an affiliate of a national
group opposed to abortion and euthanasia, according
to an official of the national organization. The new
group, Pro-Life Arkansas, is affiliated with the
Stafford, VA based American-Life League, said Julie
Wright, director for the league's five-state Southern
region.
5/3: Benton Courier
Little Rock, May 6
A small group gathered at the state Capitol to
commemorate the National Day of Prayer sponsored
by the Colorado Springs-based, Focus on the Family.
5/6:ADG
Little Rock, May 8
About 50 people attended the Arkansas Right to
Life Inc. Convention in Little Rock. David N.
O'Steen, the executive director of the National Right
to Life Committee said that President Clinton's
health-care proposal would spell disaster for
Americans, particularly unborn babies and disabled
people.
5/8:ADG
Trumann, May 19
Terry Riley, the high priest of a Wiccan coven in
Jonesboro, purchased a 15-minute Sunday morning
spot on Trumann radio station KERC-FMfor a
program tentatively titled "Children of the Circle."
Riley planned to explain his coven's doctrine and to
eventually introduce "pagan bands" on the show.
Riley also accused KLQZ-FMin Paragould, of
religious discrimination because they did not run a 15minute tape prepared by Riley's coven. He claimed he
bought 15 minutes of air time for six Sundays, but the
station later refused to broadcast the tapes and agreed
to refund his money. According to the coven, about 20
people protested near the station in Paragould.
5/19, 5/30: AD-G
Little Rock, May 31
About 60 members of Arkansas Right to Life
placed 200 small white crosses and held a memorial in
Little Rock next to a women's health-care clinic
where abortions are performed. A Little Rock Roman
Catholic priest has bought the vacant lot to use "as the
Lord wants," he said.
5/31: ADG
Fort Smith, June 22
Fort Smith lawyer Oscar Stilley has abandoned
his effort to place a school voucher amendment on the
November ballot.. He said he has collected only about
1,000 signatures on the voucher petition since he
started the drive in January. Stilley says he'll try again
for Nov. 1996.
6/22:ADG
Little Rock,July 6
Anti-abortion protestors from around the country
participated in the "Summer of Justice" in Little Rock
from July 6th through July 9th. The organizations (and
their representatives) sponsoring the event were
Operation Rescue National (Rev. Flip Benham), the
Pro-Life Action Network (Joe Scheidler), and Rescue
America (Don Treshman). They targeted four clinics
in Little Rock and also demonstrated at the home of at
least one clinic director.
Counter-demonstrations were organized by a
coalition of 25 Arkansas groups. The Alliance held
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clinics for training in nonviolent defense techniques
for counter-demonstrators with the help of members
of the Feminist Majority, a groups based in Los
Angeles.
Thirty anti-abortion demonstrators were arrested
for blockading a clinic door. Of the 19 men, nine
women, and two girls (ages 13 and 14) who were
arrested, only three people were Arkansas residents. It
was estimated that more than two-thirds of the antiabortion protesters were from out of state. No women
were denied access to clinics during the
demonstrations. Little Rock police recorded the
blockade with video cameras to provide evidence to
submit to U.S. Attorney Paula Casey for consideration
of charges under the FACE law. It was estimated that
counter-demonstrators outnumbered anti-abortion
protesters by a two-to-one margin. The "Summer of
Justice" resulted in.a cost of $103,123 for on-duty
police.
7/6-7/16, 9/16: AD-G; The Good News Reporter,
World; Arkansas Times; Little Rock Free Press;
Arkansas Women's Journal
Paragould, August 14
Greene County was reported to be the first county
in Arkansas to consider a resolution that calls for
voluntary prayer in public schools. The Quorum
Court's Public Service Committee received the
resolution from County Judge David Lange.
The head of the Committee, Don Lambert, said he
has several questions he would like answered before
making a recommendation.
8/14: AD-G
Little Rock, September 15
Critics of the Governor's School planned to tell
lawmakers that the school brainwashes the students.
The Arkansas chapter of the American Family
Association wants to close the school or change its
curriculum despite finding by a team of observers that
the school is not a hotbed of anti-Christian leftist
attitudes. AFA's Bobby Hester said that the school
teaches anti-Christian thinking, embraces
homosexuality and questions the authority of parents.
9/15: ADG
Little Rock, September 20
Abortion opponents asked the Supreme Court to
ban almost all abortions at the University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences at Little Rock. The Unborn
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Child Amendment Committee argued that even if a
woman fully paid for an abortion, public funds would
be involved if state-owned equipment or physicians
whose salaries partly were paid by the state were used.
In October the Arkansas Supreme Court overruled
the Pulaski County Chancery Court decision that
banned the expenditure of public funds on abortions
except to save a woman's life. Robert Shafer,
president of the Unborn Child Amendment
Committee, said that the decision was a "limited
setback," and that the case could be tied up in the
courts for a year or more. In December the Arkansas
Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the committee,
who contended that it was denied ample opportunity
to present evidence dealing with the definition of
"mother's life" during trial of the lawsuit.
9/20-12/6: ADG
Little Rock, September 27
The American Life League announced that it
would file a friend-of-the-court brief in an Arkansas
Supreme Court case involving the state Health
Department and the Westark Christian Action Council
of Fort Smith. The Westark Council requested
abortion data for Sebastian, Crawford and Washington
counties to verify the state's figures on abortion and to
find out which doctors are performing abortions
where. In December, Circuit Judge Don Langston
ruled that abortion statistics compiled by the state
Dept. of Health may remain in the agency's care until
the state Supreme Court decides whether the records
are public information.
9/27-12/17: ADG
Little Rock, September 28
Bob Burr, president of Arkansas Right to Life,
Jerry Cox of the Family Council, and Fred Hart, a
local attorney who represents abortion opponents, who
believe that life begins at conception condemned the
recommendation of a federal panel that the
government finance research on human embryos.
9/28:ADG
Ft. Smith, October 13
Clinton Thomas sued the Ft. Smith School District
in U.S. District Court seeking reinstatement of
advertisements for his store, Talisman, in the
Northside High School newspaper The Grizzly .
Thomas is a Wiccan and said that the books in his
store address the culture and history of various
religions and lifestyles. In 1993, the School District
banned his advertisements from the school newspaper
citing "overwhelming complaints" and an unpaid
account. Thomas claims that the School District
infringed on a shop owner's constitutional right to
religious tolerance.
U.S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren Ruled that
school officials have no obligation to take
advertisements because the paper is not a public forum
but serves as an educational tool. Thomas' attorney,
Greg Karber, filed an appeal that will be heard in the
8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri. A
three-judge panel will review all arguments and will
rule on the case by mid-1995.
10/13-11/11: AD-G; TimesRecord;Southwest
Times Record
reading of Bible passes in its daily bulletins. Williams
also fined William and Carolyn Wagner $500 each,
with $250 each suspended. In his ruling, Williams said
"there is no place" for religion in a public school
setting.
The school stopped the Bible passages in the daily
bulletins on November 28th. However, students
initiated a before-school Bible-study group on school
grounds.
Carolyn Wagner said that she and her daughter will
move out of state so that Clara can attend public
school. She claimed that the Wagners have been
harassed by local residents, including receiving a letter
placed in their mailbox which contained the message
"Stop or suffer in the name of Jesus."
12/2\12/9: Southwest TimesRecord;AD-G;
Arkansas Times
Little Rock, November 2
Demonstrators who protested the Monday visit of
Rev. Jerry Falwell were on hand to greet delegates at
the first day of Arkansas Baptist State Convention.
Followers of the Rev. W. N. Otwell of Nacogdoches,
TX lined the sidewalk outside with brightly colored
signs.
11/2:ADG
Little Rock, December 3
Secretary of State Bill Mccuen allowed the
wooden Nativity scene to be exhibited inside the
Capitol. Mccuen said it was part of a craft show and
sale held at the Capitol.
Earlier in the year, 25 clergymen signed a
statement urging Mccuen not to erect the Nativity
scene at the Capitol as he had done in previous years.
12/3-12/8: AD-G
Booneville, December 2
Clara Wagner, 17, stopped attending classes at
Booneville High School to protest the daily reading of
a Bible verse. For at least 30 years, school officials
allowed student office workers to choose a Bible verse
to "motivate and encourage students."
Wagner missed 66 days of school and her parents,
Carolyn and William Wagner, were charged with
violating the state's compulsory attendance law. Judge
Paul X. Williams, Jr., of the Booneville Municipal
Court, ruled that the Booneville schools must stop the
Bentonville, December 13
Some 21 people attended a preliminary organizing
meeting for the new Benton County chapter of the
Christian Coalition. Skip Gallagher, a local coordinator,
said that, ultimately, the group would like to identify
enough pro-Christian Coalition voters to influence
school board elections and be a factor in the county's
politics.
12/13: Benton County Daily Record
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