Diary (December 16, 2020): Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
=== === | === Donald Lambright === | ||
On April 5, 1969, [[Donald Lambright (nonfiction)|Donald Lambright]] (son of Lincoln Perry, better known as Stepin Fetchit) traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting people. Reportedly, he injured 16 and killed four, including his wife, with an M1 carbine and a .30-caliber Marlin 336 carbine before turning one of the rifles on himself. The 1969 Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting was ruled a murder-suicide, but the account of the circumstances upon which the ruling was based was questioned by Lambright's daughter and discussed at length in her 2005 self-published book about Stepin Fetchit. In a Los Angeles Times interview, Lincoln Perry stated his belief that his son was set up. Lambright's involvement with the Black Power movement at the peak of the COINTELPRO program was believed to be related to his death. Perry never provided child support for Lambright, and they only met two years before his son's violent death. | On April 5, 1969, [[Donald Lambright (nonfiction)|Donald Lambright]] (son of Lincoln Perry, better known as Stepin Fetchit) traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting people. Reportedly, he injured 16 and killed four, including his wife, with an M1 carbine and a .30-caliber Marlin 336 carbine before turning one of the rifles on himself. The 1969 Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting was ruled a murder-suicide, but the account of the circumstances upon which the ruling was based was questioned by Lambright's daughter and discussed at length in her 2005 self-published book about Stepin Fetchit. In a Los Angeles Times interview, Lincoln Perry stated his belief that his son was set up. Lambright's involvement with the Black Power movement at the peak of the COINTELPRO program was believed to be related to his death. Perry never provided child support for Lambright, and they only met two years before his son's violent death. | ||
Revision as of 03:46, 16 December 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Wednesday December 16, 2020.
Previous: Diary (December 15, 2020) - Next: Diary (December 17, 2020)
Diary
Gallery
Donald Lambright
On April 5, 1969, Donald Lambright (son of Lincoln Perry, better known as Stepin Fetchit) traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting people. Reportedly, he injured 16 and killed four, including his wife, with an M1 carbine and a .30-caliber Marlin 336 carbine before turning one of the rifles on himself. The 1969 Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting was ruled a murder-suicide, but the account of the circumstances upon which the ruling was based was questioned by Lambright's daughter and discussed at length in her 2005 self-published book about Stepin Fetchit. In a Los Angeles Times interview, Lincoln Perry stated his belief that his son was set up. Lambright's involvement with the Black Power movement at the peak of the COINTELPRO program was believed to be related to his death. Perry never provided child support for Lambright, and they only met two years before his son's violent death.
- Stepin Fetchit
- 1969 Pennsylvania Turnpike shooting - On April 5, 1969 Donald Martin Lambright, son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, killed 4, including himself and his wife, and injured 16 while driving and occasionally stopping along the Pennsylvania Turnpike east of Harrisburg, PA.