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CANTON, Ohio – When you carry a burden, sometimes you hold on just a little longer. Former NFL quarterback James Harris lived that as a player in the 1970s. Harris, a Pro Bowler in 1976 with the Los Angeles Rams, was the first black man in the modern era to start an NFL regular-season game and the first to lead his team to the playoffs. Harris endured the sleights about lacking intelligence for the position. He sometimes reacted in anger. Mostly, he studied and studied. And studied some more. “You never wanted to give anybody even the slightest room to...

Management Knew Shooter's Racist Views and Previous Threats Internal Lockheed Martin documents obtained by ABC News show that what the company has called a case of tragic workplace violence was far more complicated and was what some are calling the worst hate crime against African-Americans since the civil rights movement. An investigation by ABC News' "Primetime" found that Doug Williams, an employee at a Lockheed aircraft plant in Meridian, Miss., taunted and made death threats against black co-workers as early as a year and half before he went on a shooting spree in July 2003 that left six dead and...

Lauderdale County Sheriff Billie Sollie isn't convinced a 2003 shooting at Lockheed Martin's Meridian plant was racially motivated, despite an upcoming ABC report that says otherwise. ABC's Prime Time Live, in a segment to be aired tonight, will quote from internal Lockheed memos that the network says detail threats Doug Williams made against his black co-workers more than a year and a half before he went on the shooting rampage that left six dead. The broadcast will feature interviews of employees who say Williams made racial and violent threats against them. The shooting happened July 8, 2003, at the plant...

<p>The president of the NAACP's Meridian and Lauderdale County chapter says he does not believe racism to be the main motive behind last week's shooting rampage that left seven dead, including the shooter, and injured eight at a Lockheed Martin plant.</p>

<p>The look on Doug Williams' face was strange and unfamiliar — almost as if it wasn't him, almost as if he was oblivious to what he was doing.</p> <p>He pumped another round into his shotgun. Blam!</p> <p>Another body fell. In all, 14 were killed or wounded at the Lockheed Martin plant where Williams worked.</p>

<p>Williams killed himself after the shooting spree in the Lockheed Martin plant. MERIDIAN, Mississippi (CNN) -- A sixth victim from last week's plant shooting in Mississippi died Tuesday due to internal bleeding from a gunshot wound to her pelvis, authorities said.</p>

On July 8, Doug Williams, a 48-year-old assembly-line worker at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi, walked out of a meeting with managers on how to get along with fellow employees—just the sort of meeting encouraged by federal law to assure that everyone appreciates the merit of diversity and that no one is being harassed in the workplace. Minutes later, he returned with shotgun and a rifle. He shot two people in the room and three more on the factory floor. Then, he killed himself. Co-workers were not surprised. He had long threatened people. He had been to anger...

<p>MERIDIAN — Doug Williams had a history of threatening to kill himself and had been moved from his position at Lockheed Martin to avoid problems at least once, according to divorce papers filed in Clarke County Chancery Court.</p> <p>Williams on Tuesday carried out those threats, killing five co-workers and wounding nine before turning the gun on himself.</p>

Girlfriend: Plant Gunman Was Victim, Too Calls Shooter 'Kind, Loving Human Being' Posted: 5:50 p.m. EDT July 10, 2003 MERIDIAN, Miss. -- The memorial service was for the people he killed, but Doug Williams' girlfriend says he was a victim, too. Williams opened fire at a Lockheed Martin plant Tuesday, killing five people and wounding nine others before committing suicide. Shirley Price interrupted the service in Meridian Thursday while the town's mayor was speaking. Price asked that Williams not be criticized, saying, "He was human, too." Price called him a victim and a "kind and loving human being." Price...

The girlfriend of the factory worker who killed five fellow employees this week interrupted a memorial service Thursday by standing up in the church and saying the gunman also should be viewed as a victim. Mayor John Robert Smith was speaking during the community service when Shirley Price stood and spoke: "Excuse me. Don't criticize this man. He was human too ... don't exclude him. He was a victim, too. ... He was a kind and loving human being." Price broke into tears and left the church. Her boyfriend, Doug Williams, committed suicide after shooting 14 co-workers, killing five, at...

MERIDIAN, Miss. - Doug Williams sat in a meeting with managers at his factory job, listening to them explain the importance of being honest and responsible in the workplace. Also on the agenda: getting along with co-workers, regardless of their sex or race. AP Photo Reuters Slideshow: Gunman Kills 5, Self at Lockheed Plant Gunman Kills 5, Self at Miss. Factory (AP Video) But at some point during the meeting Williams had heard enough. He walked out of the room, telling co-workers, "Y'all can handle this." Minutes later, he returned with a shotgun and a rifle. He sprayed the room...

Police search for motive in Mississippi plant shooting Meridian, Mississippi-AP -- Mississippi police are interviewing workers at a Lockheed Martin plant, trying to find out why a co-worker went on a deadly shooting rampage yesterday. Authorities say Doug Williams had attended an ethics and sensitivity meeting at the plant in Meridian before the shooting. Local Sheriff Billy Sollie says something in that session may have caused him to "snap." Officials say Williams opened fire throughout the plant, killing five people before turning the gun on himself. Sollie tells N-B-C's "Today" show that three injured workers have been released from the...