Forum Newsfront

May, 1979

Old Dog, New TricksMontgomery--James G. Clark, the former Alabama sheriff who made headlines by attacking integrationists in Selma during the Sixties, has been sentenced to two years in prison on a Federal marijuana-smuggling conviction. Along with four other defendants, Clark was found guilty of conspiring to import pot worth about $4,300,000.The arrests occurred after mechanical problems forced a twin-engined DC-3 to make an emergency landing at the Montgomery municipal airport while loaded wi...