LSP Witness Statements on Rufus Council
Statements of witnesses to the fatal shooting of Rufus Council collected by Newark Legal Services Project. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
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Telegram from Edwin Albano to LSP, July 15, 1967
Telegram sent on July 15, 1967 from Dr. Edwin Albano, Essex County Chief Medical Examiner, to Newark Legal Services Project, regarding the postmortem examination of Rufus Council. Albano attributed the death to “a bullet wound on the left side of the head with laceration and hemorrage of brain.” — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
Grand Jury Report- Rufus Council
Grand Jury report describing the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Rufus Council on July 14, 1967, who was shot in the head when police driving on South Orange “fired his pistol into the crowd which resulted in the death of Rufus Council.” The Grand Jury found “no cause for indictment.” — Credit: Newark Public Library
LSP Notes on Rufus Council Witnesses-ilovepdf-compressed
Handwritten notes of Newark Legal Services Project regarding witnesses to the fatal shooting of Rufus Council on July 14, 1967. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers
Rose Wright Deposition on Rufus Council
Deposition of 30-year-old Rose Wright before the Essex County Grand Jury, in which she describes watching Rufus Council get shot in the head by State Troopers while standing in the doorway of Roz’s Steak House on South Orange Avenue on July 14, 1967. — Credit: Newark Public Library
