Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minute Orgy. The best-authenticated-and most shocking-incident involved three young Negroes who were listed on the police blotter as "apparently shot to death in an exchange of gunfire." According to rumors buzzing through the Negro community, they had been murdered in cold blood. After a thoroughgoing investigation of the killings by Detroit News Reporter Joseph Strickland, city officials reluctantly rounded up a covey of witnesses who agreed that the trio had been shot without provocation...
...read the blotter in the lookingglass...
...might have ended there, like any one of a thousand police-blotter items. But Smith's arrival at the station house happened to be seen by scores of Negro residents of the red brick Hayes Homes housing development across the street and by other cab drivers as well. Out over the cabbies' crackling VHP radio band went the rumor that white cops had killed a Negro driver. Within minutes, cabs and crowds were converging on the grey stone headquarters of the Fourth Precinct in the heart of Newark's over crowded, overwhelmingly Negro Central Ward. By midnight...
...Sept. 3, 1965. Subsequently, Fuller himself saw such a UFO outside the town, and his report is that of a believer, or rather a convert. He writes in documentary style, following the grammar and non sequiturs of his tape recorder, and his work has the police-blotter awkwardness of one who wishes to convince by sincerity rather than to persuade by fine writing...
Defiant Throughout. As for Daniel Arzhak, the major stain on his blotter was his macabre novel This Is Moscow Speaking, which imagined a "Public Murder Day," on which Soviet citizens could kill almost anyone they chose. Excerpts from the trial...