Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also on hand was a sympathetic delegation from Alabama's Ku Klux Klan, There was 21-year-old Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins, himself accused of murdering a civil rights worker, Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo; Wilkins, whose trial in the same courtroom ended in a hung jury, will return there for retrial this month. Near him sat Alabama Grand Dragon Robert Creel and a muscular, crew-cut man portentously identified as chief of the K.B.I.-the Klan Bureau of Investigation...
...further discrediting evidence, the defense introduced a paperback book found on Daniels' body, Meyer Levin's The Fanatic. And as a clincher, Defense Attorney Vaughan Hill Robison waved the dead seminarian's maroon undershorts in the courtroom: they looked red and, he said, "smell of urine." The operator of the Cash Store, handsome, fortyish Mrs. Virginia Varner, was called; the defense brought out that there is a beauty shop in the back of the store and, as Robison put it, "The operators there are womenfolk just like yourself...
...with Japanese aggression but with economic pressure exerted against Japan by "the ABCD Ring" (America, Britain, China and the Dutch). General Hideki Tojo, who coined the wartime ABCD rationale in the first place, is no longer pictured in the textbooks as a militarist on trial in a war crimes courtroom but as a kindly gent patting the heads of children...
John Connor, Secretary of Commerce will speak in Room 100 of the Baker Library at 4 p.m. today. At 8:30 p.m. he will address the Law School Forum's first meeting of the year, in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Panelists there will include Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, and Dan T. Smith, Professor of Finance...
...paper, the 'Freedom Train', split the town in half with its campaign," he said. "The school principal come into the trial asking for $675,000 in damages and the courtroom was packed each day by whites friendly to him and Negroes hostile...