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...foundations, campuses and corporations for the names of likely candidates and assembling background data. In some cases, very little research was needed (e.g., Arkansas Senator Bill Fulbright, who was already well known to Kennedy). In others (e.g., Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, whom Kennedy had never met), a complete dossier was ordered. As new possibilities surfaced, the FBI, as always, provided full security checks on each man, and Kennedy's right-hand man, Ted Sorensen, gave his imprimatur to the political background...
...year. Between crisscrossing the U.S. on translating assignments, he served as vice president of the Modern Language Association, proofread all its publications, and bounced into Washington to set up the U.S. Office of Education's first file of world languages. All this solo chore involved was a separate dossier on each of 4,300 languages and dialects, with 1,500 cross references to alternate spellings. Morgan did it in eight weeks...
...masked men only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who had called the G-men into the case. But the 378-page dossier, said Pearl River District Attorney Vernon Broom last week, was mostly "hearsay." The grand jury did not even get to see the FBI findings. Leaving the case "unsolved," the grand jury thanked Judge Dale for his "inspired charge," declared that "from the standpoint of citizenship and law enforcement, our county compares...
Five Fingers (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Few spy rings ever boasted so tricky a talent as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen brings to Dossier, second in the series...
...county jail at Poplarville and shot him to death (TIME, May 4). Last week the agents abruptly closed their books on the case, locked up their temporary Poplarville field office. On their way out of Mississippi they called on Governor James Plemon Coleman at Jackson, left behind a dossier identifying the men who lynched Parker and dumped his corpse into Pearl River...