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Musician Quits Over Photo: The owner of a Pensacola, Fla., restaurant declared he would not remove a historic photograph from his wall that upset jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and prompted him to cancel a performance at a weekend jazz festival. Hutcherson said he was “deeply offended” by a photo at the New World restaurant that shows a rifle-toting white man standing by a dead black man on a wooden plank. The photo’s caption reads, “Morris Slater. Alias Railroad Billy, murderer and robber, 1897.” Restaurant owner Les Miller said the picture plays “a part in Pensacola’s heritage, and at this time I feel it’s appropriate that it remain on the wall.”

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