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Subject: Re: SCV Echo: ****NOTICE: First White House Vandalized

In a message dated 97-09-14 23:18:45 EDT, you write:

<< Subj:	 SCV Echo: ****NOTICE: First White House Vandalized
 Date:	97-09-14 23:18:45 EDT
 From:	DANptAL@aol.com
 Reply-to:	scvecho@dixie-net.com
 To:	scvecho@dixie-net.com.alhpa@dbtech.net (SCV Echo Mailing Lis)
 
 MONTGOMERY (AP)The First White House of the Confederacy, where Jefferson
 Davis lived in 1861, was hit by vandals, who painted lurid anti-Confederacy
 graffiti across its white front wall.
      Guides at the popular tourist attraction found the damage when they
 arrived Thursday morning. Capitol Police reported that the vandals also hit
a
 downtown uniform business, as well as two law enforcement vehicles that were
 parked at homes.  
      One of the vehicles, assigned to a state trooper, was painted, then set
 afire and partially burned, trooper spokeswoman Dorris Teague said.  The
 other, a city police car, was covered in red and green paint and had its
four
 tires punctured, Montgomery Police Cpl. Pervis Fleming said.
      Police said the targets appeared to have been chosen at random and they
 had no suspects.
      The White House Association, which manages the First White House of
 Confederacy, had reopened it in April after a nine-month program to remove
 lead paint and restore the exterior to its 1861 appearance.  The project
cost
 $189,510.
      The home, which Davis' family occupied from March through May 1861, is
 located across the street from the Capitol, where the Confederate States of
 America were organized.  The home attracts about 100,000 tourists a year.
      The vandals painted red, profanity-filled slurs about the Confederacy
on
 the front wall.
      Workers quickly slapped a coat of primer across the graffiti and the
 home reopened to tourists, association regent Cameron Napier said.
      The building has become part of Montgomery's effort to capitalize on
its
 Confederate and civil rights history.  Mrs. Napier said she believes it is
 the first time that the building, which is 162 years old, has been a target
 of such vandalism.
 
 Fowarded by,
 
 Michael C. Allen 
 Editor, The Southern Majority 
     member:League of the South
                  SCV Henry Wirz Camp 1712
 
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