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Directed by GORDON DAVIDSON Screenplay by DANIEL BERRIGAN and SAUL LEVITT...
...system "allows for some pretty good journalism to get lost." More importantly he contends that the selection group is too narrowly based to encompass all that is new and vital in journalism. For the sake of diversity he would add such nonjournalists as Jesse Jackson, Saul Alinsky, Daniel Berrigan and Spiro Agnew...
...jurors did find Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth guilty of the charge of illegally smuggling their letters in and out of the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison where the Catholic priest was serving a six-year term for destroying Selective Service records. Convicted on seven smuggling counts in all, Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth face possible maximum sentences of 40 and 30 years respectively for violating the prison contraband law. The defense was quick to point out, however, that the rule is primarily concerned with drugs and weapons and that the smuggling of letters is so commonplace as to be generally overlooked. Laying...
...only non-Catholic defendant, announced to cheering supporters: "My plans are to get out of here as soon as I can and go into the streets to protest the Viet Nam War. We have not been frightened by the Government." Referring to the prison letters, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan predicted: "They'll probably be a literary treasure in a few years...
...wrong. They were really prejudiced." Juror Vera Thompson, a Carlisle, Pa., stock clerk, allowed that Boyd Douglas, the Government's star witness, was "the reason you had a hung jury." She explained that several jurors simply did not believe Informer Douglas, the ex-convict who shuttled the Berrigan-McAlister letters in and out of prison and later turned copies over to the FBI (see THE LAW). Mrs. Thompson added that she, like many of the jurors, was "totally confused" by the conspiracy...