On April 12, 1980, just two days before the anniversary of the 1979 rice riots that shook the core of the Tolbert administration, President William R. Tolbert Jr. became the first sitting Chairman of the Organization of African Unity to be deposed by a coup d’etat since Kwame Nkrumah.
Cemetery Visitors Angry About Relatives’ Damaged Graves
On Decoration Day, relatives of the dead were upset to see graves at the Palm Grove Cemetery desecrated by criminals.