weeks into this process, the local ku klux klan held its own meating to plan not just resistance but a violent counterattack to stop these kids. and we know this. there is documentary proof of it because the local klan in jacksonville at the time included one man who volunteered to be an fbi informant inside the klan and he gave the minutes of the klan meeting from august 24th, 1960, to the fbi. this meeting in which they planned to attack these young people from the naacp youth council. the fbi then alerted the local sheriff s office that the klan was planning a violent attack. local authorities, local law enforcement knew the whole plan in advance. they knew the klan was planning to bring hundreds of white men downtown into jacksonville the following saturday, august 27th, whereupon they would have stashed baseball bats and ax handles to use as their weapons.
jacksonville, florida, 1960, you can see why it got national news. it ended up, this photo, in life magazine and also ended up on the front page of the new york times. violence flares in jacksonville. 50 injured as white gangs clash with negros. in life magazine, on the front page of the new york times. you know where it didn t end up on the front page was the main white newspaper in jacksonville, florida.pa florida times union. they didn t cover the sit-ins at the downtown lunch counters at all, and when it came to the he white race riot on august 27th they buried coverage of that on page 15 of the paper. which is all the more amazing when you consider that after the initial frenzied attack, hundreds of white men running through the downtown chasing people down and beating them with ax handles, after that initial, frenzied attack, the rioting in jacksonville actually
to cnn this morning. it is sunday, august 27th. i m amara walker. i m rahel solomon in for victor blackwell. we are following several developing stories this morning. at least three marines are dead and several others hurt after their helicopter crashed during a training exercise overseas. we have new details just ahead in a live report. the shooting was racially motivated. three black victims gunned down at a store in historic black neighborhood in jacksonville. more about the white gunman and his hate-filled manifesto. and we are monitoring two storms in the atlantic that will impact the u.s. this week. meteorologist allison chinchar with the forecast. a pivotal week for former white house chief of staff mark meadows. he fights to get his case moved to federal court.
he was resting, came in as a sub at the hour mark and then did what messi does. put new york s defense in a blender, on the give and go from ben cremaschi in just nine games for miami, 11 goals. that leads the team in scoring and, of course, he won the first ever trophy last week with the league s cup title. check out the reaction in times square in manhattan. simply awesome. messi and miami win 2-0. when he comes to atlanta in a couple of weeks, the tickets in the nosebleeds normally $19, are going for $160. of course they are. i was talking about this. when he coming? i want to be in the same stadium as lionel messi. thank you. good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, august 27th. i m rahel solomon in for victor
affect travellers at the uk s busiest airport. around 2,000 officers, who are members of the unite union, will walk out on 31 days betweenjune 24th and august 27th in their long running dispute over pay. my my understanding of that was that the security office, you have to remember that aren t security officers across the whole of heathrow airport that will be involved. if those at terminal three and five, and those we just mentioned in campus security. these won t be the first strikes that are taking place in this ongoing pay dispute. also, at the start of the easter holidays and over the may half term, but at that point the staff weren t in evolved from terminal three. staff weren t in evolved from terminalthree. now staff weren t in evolved from terminal three. now they are joining the action and it is in terms of more strike dates, more than 30 strike dates have been set between late june and strike dates have been set between latejune and the end of august. what is the impact goin