By THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
YORK, Pa., Sept. 26 — An all-white jury has been selected for the trial of three white men charged with murder in the death of a young black woman during racial strife here in 1969.
The six women and six men of the jury have little memory of the 10 days of disturbances in July 1969, except for one woman who as a child lived across the street from a white police officer who was fatally shot.
On trial in the July 21, 1969, death of the black woman, Lillie Belle Allen, 27, are Charlie Robertson, who later became the mayor of York, a city of 41,000, and two men who prosecutors say were members of white gangs that ambushed Ms. Allen's car. They could face life in prison if convicted.
The jurors were chosen from nearly 90 candidates. York County is about 93 percent white; the city of York is about 25 percent black.
Most of the jurors are 40 to 45 years old. Few, if any, live in York. Their identities have not been revealed. Six alternate jurors must still be chosen, and jury selection will continue on Friday.
Prosecutors said they were trying to assemble a jury that was not affected by the disturbances in which Ms. Allen, a minister's daughter, and Henry Schaad, a York police officer, were fatally shot.