Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford University, several participants advocated registration of all guns-if only, said one, to "see if this reduces crime or death rates." Other preventive measures were linked to the predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity...
...beach house on Long Island, but the area is so remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm Springs, but he says, "I never find anything on it." He is contemptuous of adventure programs ("Fictionalized crime doesn't interest me") but thinks that TV violence is harmless: "Crime comes from people with a caged-up obsession, something locked up inside. Reading a dirty book doesn't stir up a sex maniac. Just the opposite...
Back in the era of Senator Joe McCarthy, says Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Fifth Amendment served as a shield for people whose only crime was leftist political associations. Indeed, says Friendly, the amendment's main purpose was to give the protective privilege of silence to those persecuted for heresy, nonconformity and political crimes. "This is the privilege we love," says Friendly...
...Crime Reps...
...better than the average crime film, Pretty Poison takes a sly, jaundiced look at swinging youth and the pervasive American climate of violence...