Gun Wielder In School Board Shooting Tells About Incident

Gun Wielder In School Board Shooting Tells About Incident 

TYLER AP—Dr. C. C. Rahm, his voice choked with emotion, told a news conference Monday he fired the shot that killed Thurman Jackson during a fight at the Brownsboro School Board meeting June 16, but said he had no malice toward Jackson. Rahm has been held in the Tyler jail on a charge of murder since four days after the shooting that climaxed years of bitter feuding over the school affairs of the small East Texas town. He gave his account of the fight for the first time at a news conference arranged by his lawyer, Charles Tessmer of Dallas 

Earlier, Tessmer asked Judge V. M. Johnston of Athens to free Rahm on bond pending his trial. Johnston set a hearing on the habeas corpus petition for 9 AM Friday. 

Rahm, former mayor of Brownsboro, was secretary of the school board which earlier this year fired Homer Bass, longtime superintendent of schools. He said he had been threatened prior to the June 16 meeting but did not name the persons he said made the threats. He said he was scared and for that reason carried a .45 caliber pistol to the meeting. Rahm said the crowd attending the board meeting began to get out of hand after I. B. Long adjourned the meeting. 

Bryan Daily Eagle

July 12, 1960

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