Officer H. E. Schatz outside the courtroom at city hall in Birmingham, Alabama, during the trial of four men who attacked Nat King Cole during a performance at the Municipal Auditorium on April 10.
Schatz was the first officer to reach Cole on stage the night of the attack. A cropped version of this image was published in the Birmingham News on April 14, 1956, with the following caption: "Officer H. E. Schatz . . . First witness."
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/206362 |
| Summary: | Schatz was the first officer to reach Cole on stage the night of the attack. A cropped version of this image was published in the Birmingham News on April 14, 1956, with the following caption: "Officer H. E. Schatz . . . First witness." |
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