Jim Clark (sheriff)
James Gardner Clark, Jr. (September 17, 1922, Elba, Coffee County, Alabama – June 4, 2007) of Selma, Alabama, was the sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama from 1955 to 1966. He was one of the officials responsible for the violent arrests of civil rights protestors during the Selma to Montgomery marches.
Read more about Jim Clark (sheriff): Early Life, Sheriff of Selma, Bloody Sunday, Loss of Sheriff's Office, Later Life and Death
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“Just kids! That’s about the craziest argument I’ve ever heard. Every criminal in the world was a kid once. What does it prove?”
—Theodore Simonson. Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.. Jim Bird, The Blob, responding to the suggestion that they not lock up the teens pulling the alien “prank,” (1958)
“It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.”
—Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)