Adele Ferguson - Tales of threats against official in Washington

BACK IN SEPTEMBER 1970, someone telephoned the Centralia Daily Chronicle and warned that U.S. Sen. Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson was going to be shot during a public appearance that night in Centralia.

Word was swiftly passed along to Jackson, who was in Aberdeen at the time, and to the State Patrol. Two troopers joined his entourage there and went with him to the next stop in Elma.

The way one of his staffers put it, “By the time we pulled up in Elma at the grade school it looked like an armed camp. There were six patrol cars in the parking lot.”

Nothing happened there and nothing happened in Cent...