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* ‘ ‘ Memorandum to Mr. Belmont RE: HOWARD ZINN with demonstrating on Federal property. They were not dragged through the streets and motion pictures taken of the arrest by Bureau Agents were furnished to the Department. The other incident involved ee and[ _i| who were arrested by the Alabama Highway Patrol on 10/7/63 at Selma, Alabama, James Foreman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader, and James Baldwin, notorious BIC Negro author, on 10/7/63 asked Sheriff James G, Clark if they would be allowed to serve food to Negroes standing in a voter registration line at Selma, The sheriff refused stating that people standing in such a line were not to be rees[ en be ence, Foreman instructed the two Negroes, and to serve Negroes in the line with sandwiches. ey attempted to and were arrested by the Alabama Highway Patrol. In the process of the arrest, one Negro dropped to the ground to lie down and the second Negro tripped over him and fell down, The second Negro was immediately pulled off the ground by state troopers and taken to a waiting bus, The first Negro began struggling and kicking at the state troopers, He was struck about the arms, legs and shoulders with the ends of night sticks by the state troopers and it was necessary for the troopers to bodily carry this Negro to the bus for i transportation to the Dallas County Jail. Agents were on the scene daily during this time at b6 elma to observe the activities upon specific instruction of bIC he Department. A preliminary investigation was conducted by he Bureau concerning the and[___]ease and a report dated 10/11/63 was furnished to the Department. In addition, efforts were made to locate films of this incident from newsmen but no films were ever located. It should be noted that the 11/14/63 issue of the "Boston Globe" carried a report of a speech made on 11/13/63 by William S, Coffin, Jr., Chaplain of Yale University. The article contained several false and distorted statements by Mr, Coffin, such as the Director is “one of the biggest segregationists we have in this country," that the Negro receives 'no support" from FBI Agents in the South in asserting