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U.S. NEWSTuesday 24 November 2015

Texas woman seeks return of film showing JFK assassination

DAVID WARREN shot by Orville Nix on Nov. It’s not clear where the orig- The Sixth Floor Museum at from where some witnesses
Associated Press 22, 1963. inal copy may be but Nix Dealey Plaza says a film thought they heard at least
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas In the days after the killing, Jackson believes it’s in the shot by Abraham Zapruder one shot fired.
woman said Monday that he gave the film to the UPI possession of the National has greater historical value It’s incomprehensible that
she’s suing a federal agen- news agency with the un- Archives and Records Ad- because it shows all of the authorities would lose “an
cy to force the return of a derstanding that after 25 ministration because most shooting, as opposed to important piece of his-
film shot by her grandfather years it would be returned materials that were part of Nix’s film and two others torical evidence,” said Nix
that shows a portion of the to the family. However, it the federal inquiry were for- that capture part of the as- Jackson, whose lawsuit was
1963 assassination of Presi- was obtained by the War- warded to the NARA. The sassination. filed Saturday in federal
dent John F. Kennedy. ren Commission and an- lawsuit says the agency has Nix Jackson said her grand- court in Washington, D.C.
Gayle Nix Jackson, who other federal panel that told Nix Jackson it does not father’s film was shot from “I can understand little
lives in the Fort Worth area, investigated the shooting have it. An agency spokes- Dealey Plaza. She said it clerical issues,” she said. “I
is seeking $10 million in and assassin Lee Harvey woman declined to com- shows Zapruder across the don’t’ understand the loss
compensation for the film Oswald. ment Monday. street and the grassy knoll of evidence like this.”q

Police investigate New Orleans shooting that wounded 17

Paramedics with New Orleans EMS remove a person from the scene following a shooting in New J. MCCONNAUGHEY details such as their ages.
Orleans’ 9th Ward on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015. Police spokesman Tyler Gamble says police were on R. SANTANA Hundreds of people were
their way to break up a big crowd when gunfire erupted at Bunny Friend Park. Associated Press gathered Sunday evening
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Au- at Bunny Friend Playground
(Michael DeMocker/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) thorities are still trying to — most for a block party
determine what touched and some for the filming
off a shootout between of a music video — when
two groups of gunmen two groups in the crowd
that wounded 17 people opened fire on each other,
in a crowded New Orleans police said. Police were on
park, a police spokesman their way to break up a big
said Monday. The may- crowd there when gunfire
or called on witnesses to erupted at the park in the
come forward, but by late city’s 9th Ward, the police
Monday morning nobody said in a statement. Mayor
had offered either video Mitch Landrieu, speak-
of the shootout or descrip- ing at a news conference
tions or IDs of the gunmen, aired on WWL-TV, called
officer Frank Robertson on people who were in the
said. None of the injuries is park to come forward with
believed to be life-threat- information. Police have
ening. Robertson did not also asked people with any
know how many people video of the shooting to
were hospitalized or any bring it to police.q

Venue owners appeal fine for denying lesbian couple wedding

MICHAEL HILL ers of Liberty Ridge Farm York law and is seeking to ruled this year that it’s a erties Union, said the Mc-
Associated Press north of Albany refused have the fine reversed. right under the U.S. Consti- Carthys, who now live in the
ALBANY, New York (AP) to host the 2013 wedding “It would violate the Gif- tution. But Dalton, counsel New York City area, were
— Owners of a wedding of Melisa and Jennie Mc- fords’ faith to facilitate this for the Alliance Defending “heartbroken” when they
venue who were fined Carthy, citing their own union,” attorney Caleb Dal- Freedom, said the Giffords’ were turned away from
$13,000 for violating New religious beliefs. Now the ton told a five-judge panel faith does not allow them the Giffords’ farm. Hirose
York state’s anti-discrimina- business, owned by Robert of the Appellate Division of to participate in a marriage and a lawyer for the hu-
tion law argued Monday and Cynthia Gifford, is ap- state Supreme Court. New that is not between one man rights division argued
that they should be legal- pealing a ruling from the York state legalized same- man and one woman. that the business cannot
ly allowed to follow their state’s Division of Human sex marriage in 2011, and Mariko Hirose, an attorney be exempted from having
Christian faith. The own- Rights that it violated New the U.S. Supreme Court with the New York Civil Lib- to follow anti-discrimination

laws.q