Hundreds comfort a mother
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Hundreds comfort a mother

Associated Press · July 3, 1969

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Hundreds comfort a mother -- Kasie Strong reads some of the hundreds of letters she has received from across the nation after her 14-year-old daughter Vivian was shot by a white policeman last week. The girl's death touched off three straight nights of rioting, looting and vandalism in the largely Negro Near North Side of Omaha. With Mrs. Strong is Vivian's 8-year-old brother Leonard.

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