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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georgia jury wasted little time acquitting Klansmen Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers of murder. Despite the verdict, the Justice Department went ahead and built its own case by dusting off an obscure anticonspiracy law dating back to Reconstruction days. Last week, in the small U.S. District Court in Athens, Ga., that law brought Sims and Myers to trial...
...conduct. "These pore little old country boys," Hudson told the all-white jury, "entered into a conspiracy all right-a conspiracy to protect you and me, to keep racial violence from tearing apart Athens, Georgia." Whether the jury was convinced remained a secret. Though a verdict was reached, U.S. District Judge William A. Bootle ordered it sealed, pending this week's trial-on the same federal conspiracy charges-of three other Athens Klansmen accused of harassing Negroes...
After interviewing seven students who smoked marijuana at the University of Oregon, Miss Buchanan wrote an article under the banner headline: "Students Condone Marijuana Use," which estimated that 200-400 students at the University smoked pot. Lane County District Attorney William Frye subpoenaed the Senior co-ed to testify befort a grand jury, and demanded that she reveal her sources. After three refusals, County Judge William Leavy ordered her to stand trial in contempt of court. Miss Buchanan was convicted last Wednesday, but will appeal the decision and sentence to the Oregon Supreme Court...
Unfortunately this hearing does not seem to be shaping into a test case; Miss Buchanan's defense is in something less than the best tradition of the courageous press, and District Attorney Frye's prosecution is less than a paragon of justice. Buchanan is reported as having said that she will appeal the case to stall for time (the appeal should take about a year) and if she is still required to come up with the names at that time, she will be perfectly willing to reveal her sources. "A year from now people won't be around...
...told an Oregon journalism class, "Don't break a confidence." This year, Frye has decided that you should break a confidence "when ordered to do so by the court." What he had meant before was that a reporter should protect sources such as the holders of public office--like District Attorney Frye for example...