In this November 4, 1979, article from the "Greensboro Daily News," staff writer Lindsey Gruson reports on calls for calm by Greensboro leaders following the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan rally, at which five members if the Communist Workers Party (CWP) were shot to death. Black and white leaders, including Mayor Jim Melvin, Police Chief William Swing, pastors Frank Williams and Otis Hairston, Councilman Jimmie Barber, and local NAACP president George Simkins joined to urge residents not to become violent. Melvin stated that the incident was unrelated to racial tension in the city and said there would be a full investigation. Williams noted that residents of the area where the shootings took place were angry at the police for not having been at the scene and at the CWP for choosing a heavily populated parade route through a residential area, as well as at the Ku Klux Klan members.