Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Angie Dickinson, 33, long-stemmed Hollywood beauty (Captain Newman, M.D.); and Burt Bacharach Jr., 37, Manhattan songwriter (Magic Moments); both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Love on the Lawn? While his colleagues squirmed with shame and embarrassment, Dickinson blandly allowed as how "I am not going to vouch for the authenticity or the veracity of any affidavit or any individual whose affidavit I hold"-and then proceeded to lend them authenticity by reading some of the "eyewitness" reports aloud...
...Dickinson said he had access to photographs and movie films depicting the events, but he never produced them. Several newsmen saw much of the debauchery, he added, but newspapers had deliberately suppressed the whole thing...
...Never Saw Any." Throughout the Deep South, hundreds of segregationists rushed to send for copies of the Congressional Record and all the prurient details. Chortled Dickinson: "One of my colleagues just came back from a newsstand, and he said, 'Man, they've got three bestsellers-Nugget, Playboy and the Congressional Record!' " Dickinson hardly seemed to care that many people, North and South, viewed such stories with great suspicion. Although congressional speeches are privileged, he said that he would repeat last week's charges in the Montgomery Coliseum, which would automatically lift his protection against a slander...
Scarcely said than done. Dozens of clergymen who had made the march responded with outraged denials. Reporters who covered the event from beginning to end called the Dickinson report patent nonsense. While there was bound to be some hanky-panky, especially among some of the unwashed youngsters who joined the march for kicks, there was no evidence of open misconduct; certainly there were no arrests, even by the police officials who signed the affidavits. Said United Press International Photographer Phil Sandlin: "I spent five days and nights on the march. None of those things ever happened...