THE NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 6, 1946

• Freeport, Long Island killings
• Ferguson brothers - Negroes
• White police officer shootings
• Early civil rights oppression

Page 16 has a small and somewhat discrete one column heading: "Policemen Kills 2 Men" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with all 42 pages, rag edition in nice condition.

Background: On February 5, 1946, in Freeport, Long Island, a white police officer shot and killed Charles and Alphonso Ferguson, and wounded their brother Joseph, after the unarmed Black brothers protested being refused service at a local restaurant. The immense historical significance of this tragedy lies in how it exposed the brutal reality of violent, systemic racism in the post-World War II North, shattering the illusion that Jim Crow-style oppression was an exclusively Southern phenomenon. Because Charles and Joseph were uniformed military veterans who had just returned home from defending global freedom, their deaths ignited a national civil rights flashpoint; prominent leaders like Thurgood Marshall demanded accountability, while folk icon Woody Guthrie memorialized the injustice in song. Ultimately, the rapid, state-sanctioned exoneration of the officer, combined with a highly criticized state inquiry that civil rights groups walked out on and labeled a "whitewash," galvanized the early Civil Rights Movement by proving that Black veterans were not only denied the democracy they fought for abroad, but faced deadly, state-protected violence on American soil.