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...Whitney faces a possible two-and-a-half year prison term for assault and battery, and a six month term for disorderly person. Sobel is charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace, with a maximum six-month prison sentence on each charge. Pennington will come to trial for contempt of court and disorderly person...
Strong Language. Ford had unintentionally placed himself in contempt of a court order directing more than 300 people who had played any role in the grand jury investigations to maintain complete public silence about the case. He said later he did not think he would be quoted by name, and suggested that he had been misquoted, although he did not say in what way. His bitter outburst brought a deliberately contemptuous statement from one of the most respected figures on the Kent State campus, Geology Professor Glenn W. Frank. In testimony given before the President's Commission on Campus...
...speak now in contempt of court," Frank said, "in contempt of the naive and stupid conclusions of the special grand jury, specifically as to their reasons for the May 4 disturbances; in contempt of Judge Edwin Jones for the gag rules . . . and in personal contempt for Lawyer Ford for his lack of understanding after 68 years of what I believe is a wasted life . . . It is my feeling that the Republican Party feels it must smash the student uprising to stay in power. I know that some people should be prosecuted for what they did in May. But that should...
Both Ford and Frank pleaded guilty to contempt, but Judge Jones deferred sentencing until a federal court in Cleveland rules on whether his silencing order was constitutional...
With characteristic respect for history and contempt for waste, Lady Bird documented her five White House years by squirreling away appointment sheets, memoranda, letters and, above all, by talking almost every day's events into a tape recorder. The result was some 1,750,000 words that will eventually be available to scholars at the L.B.J. library. Diary is a sampler, some 300,000 words in nearly 800 pages, constituting a singular account of an exacting and freakish assignment, that of being a First Lady in the second half of the 20th century...