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...Buick that was about to pull away. Eight or nine shots rang out. A black man slumped over the Buick's steering wheel with fatal wounds in the back of his head and between his shoulder blades. As residents of a nearby public-housing project milled about, James Bowden, 25, was taken to the morgue, another casualty of the war between inner-city Americans and the nation's embattled police. The policemen said that Bowden was suspected of robbing a grocery store and that after their warning shouts, he had tried to run one of them down...
...eyes of Bowden's 33-year-old widow, Patricia, the case was not closed. Insisting that her husband was an innocent victim, she shopped for a lawyer willing to help her take on the police department and finally found Lawrence O'Donnell, 59, a onetime patrolman with a penchant for bold courtroom tactics and underdog clients (among them: three of the Brink's robbers). "He's a tiger," says one court official who has observed him over the years. "When he gets something in his teeth, he never lets go." For O'Donnell, Bowden...
...things caused O'Donnell to question the officers' account. Bowden had worked as a janitor at Boston City Hospital since the age of 17. O'Donnell doubted that someone who had held a steady job for that long would suddenly turn to robbery. Then there was the policemen's claim that Bowden had tried to ram one of them with his car. "I happen to know," O'Donnell told TIME's Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, "that when police want an out, they always say that. When I read the newspaper story, my life behind...
...John Bowden Connally Jr., 62, was speaking to 1,500 party loyalists at a candidates' forum in Chicago, but the mood and curiosity were repeated in 25 cities in ten states last month as he cantered north from his Texas ranch in his quest for the White House. He has paced himself carefully, first courting the faithful of his adopted party and luring many of its leaders into his camp, then hitting the board rooms where his fund-raising ability is legendary. This month he will be on the road for 25 days in 16 states. His extravagant television campaign...
...also believes it knows what Thevis did with some of the money. In his diary, according to King's testimony, the pornographer wrote "Liz [a pet name for Bowden]-$6,000," then added that a rifle had been purchased. In one of Thevis' datebooks, there is an entry on Oct. 25, the day of the Underbill murder: "RU killed." A diary also showed that the balding pornographer had been scheduled to get a hair transplant the day after the ambush but had called...