A V Johnson From Page A5 I her husband wasn't killed in a brawl. H ^ "I think the people of H J Greensboro and Winston-Salem H 0 - and his co-workers - need to H H I know the entire story," she says. H I I "... There was no argument in H P the lounge." H ^ ^^0 Of Francis Lloyd Ramsey, the H 0^^ man who allegedly shot her hus- H H H^^ band, she says: "Evidently, that H Hp _ man had other problems." H ^ 0^^ Siill, there are no traces of bit- H P H ^ H terness in her voice. When asked H H H H if she feels any hatred toward the H H. person who killed her husband, H 9^^^ she immediately says no, then H 9 there is a long pause. H ^^9 t^P "I feel empty and lost without H 9^ IHJ my mate," she says. "And I H . don't feel that my husband did H 9^^^ anything to provoke this action. H ^ "He's (the killer's) going to get what's coming to him. He may H not have suffered as much as 1 H have, but 1 think he's having some second thoughts about what he's done." Mrs. Shaw is strikingly serene. She even smiles and laughs when H ?pppppM^pp the memories come - for exam- H pie, the memory of how she met H 1 her husband when she was a H Winston-Salem State student H visiting an aunt in Sumter, S.C. H .v;y:- y And how they met again in New York, and he later sent her a H telegram because h? didn't know H her phone number. H Or how they were together last H RV Ip SA at a PTA meeting the day before H Effi " \ he left for Charleston. As for the stark reality of the present, Mrs. Shaw isn't sure H whether she will attend Francis H "I haven't decided," she says. I "If I think I can handle it emotionally, I probably will." H Mrs. Shaw also says she fears H BWtffij* t that Ramsey will not be tried fair- H ly ? that Southern justice may prevail, despite the fact that H ^ Ramsey turned himself in to H m police six hours after the H shooting. ? O afraid thir man is going0 B .^r ^ to get off due to some technicality and wind up serving little to no time," she says. As evidence, she points to a news clipping in which Ramsey's attorney, Dale Green, contends H that the eyewitness only heard the H I ji shots that killed Shaw before he H fled the scene. rap 41 And she gropes to understand H ^ ^ the meaninglessness of her hus- H AO O r band's death. H O I "I would have felt better if so- H - ^ AOf meone had told me my husband H QT X had been killed as a result of an H accident," she says. "It would H have been better. But to be told H that he was killed for no apparent H reason is very hard to accept." H Mrs. Shaw has not shed a tear H rtnrino th#? #?ntir#? int#?rvi#?w Thp M grief seems etched in her face, but that's where it stays. She still smiles when she remembers her husband. H A ^h.n-rLJ "I know this is what Len (her H vDOOS husband) would want me to do," H ?, she says, "and I have to be H j | | strong." H m OllllltMllllltlllllllllltUHtltillllllllHIIIIIIIItlllllltlllltl now at Lewengrub I IIIIIIIINIIIimiinHllllllfWIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHMI H stituency is in the black com- . H munity to openly criticize another H black? I think it is. If leadership H includes a degree of boldness, a sense of right and a sense of ? Availability justice, then bigotry must be condemned no matter the source. H Any respect for facts will confirm H i I \ CC that Louis Farrakhan preaches H / COCSfl \ ?? religious and racial hatred. An- H I I bC drew Young, Tom Bradley and H V / ?? - a!? ? ? f/>r ^j omcrs arc nui ics^naiun. iui w wyi Farrakhan or anything he says, H * but they are responsible for their own reactions and responses, and the messages they send to millions of blacks set a tone. Each has offered some H I criticism of Farrakhan. That is I ' better than nothing, but hardly strong enough to make a ripple. 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