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...letter by Paul P. Daley about the use of Harvard Stadium by the Boston Patriots, which appears elsewhere on this page, is representative of the misguided thinking of both Patriots fans and Boston newspapers about the definition of the term "public interest." It is time that thinking was set straight...
Thus began the two hours of Daley's testimony last week at the trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to foment riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention. From the defendants' point of view, the mayor's appearance might as well have ended where it began...
...defense had summoned Daley as a witness in hopes of strengthening its argument that the authorities, not the radical leaders, had caused the violence. To put Daley on a verbal rack, however, required a ruling from U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman that the mayor was a hostile witness. That label would have allowed Defense Attorney William Kunstler to lodge leading or accusatory questions. Without it, Kunstler was restricted to more general interrogation, because Daley was technically a witness for the defense...
Chicago Hospitality. Obviously well briefed on this legal point, Daley kept his TNT temper hidden. At times he glowered. During a recess. Defendant Abbie Hoffman said to Daley: "Why don't we just settle it right here and now? What is it with all these lawyers, anyway?" The mayor merely laughed. Though he stared stolidly past Kunstler during much of the questioning, Daley replied courteously when he had the chance to answer at all -which was rare. Prosecutor Thomas Foran repeatedly objected to Kunstler's questions, and Judge Hoffman sustained Foran's position 70 times. When Kunstler...
...substantive questions permitted was whether Daley had given Deputy Mayor David Stahl directions about issuing parade permits to the Youth International Party (the Yippies). Said Daley: "I gave Mr. Stahl the same instructions I gave any other department head-certainly to meet with them, to try to cooperate with them, and do everything they could to make sure that they would be given every courtesy and hospitality...