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...Supreme Court ruling involved three reporters who refused to answer grand jury questions. Caldwell and Paul Pappas of WTEV in New Bedford, Mass., were summoned for questioning about what they had learned in their coverage of Black Panther activities. Paul Branzburg, then of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was interrogated about his sources for stories on local drug traffic. Despite the June ruling, no effort has yet been made to recall either Caldwell or Pappas for questioning. The reason, Caldwell speculates, is loss of official interest in the Panthers and a wish to avoid controversy with the press in an election...
...years ago, a young liberal running for Congress in a district which included the very poor, heavily blue collar city of New Bedford as well as several wealthy suburbs and Cape Cod, had a fund-raising party at a large seaside estate at Woods Hole. It was a beautiful people party at a beautiful people place: the men clad in bright red and yellow cotton pants with boat shoes or tassled loafers, the women in heels and tastefully chic dresses...
Much of the candidate's New Bedford staff came up to Woods Hole for the party, both for the bit of relaxation and the culture shock it provided for those who had spent months in the hot cramped quarters of a dying industrial ghetto. They listened to the several hundred guests loudly cheer the Congressional candidate and pledge their willingness to do anything to help him win this critical, good versus evil campaign...
...Come to New Bedford," the staffers urged the guests. "That's where the election is being won or lost. Get out of the suburbs and find out what life is like in a real city...
...guests were aghast. Most had never been to New Bedford a scan 40 miles away. Most feared it as ugly, riot-torn, dangerous; as somehow impure and of a different species of America. No, they said, they would play their political games in the suburbs where politics is neat and clean and genteel, and have nothing to do with those ugly places where the work people did made smoke come out of factory chimneys...