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Others would be people like W.H. Auden, William O. Douglas, Father Theodore Hesburgh, Earl Warren, Lady Bird Johnson, one of the Berrigan brothers, Ramsey Clark, Sissy Farenthold or Joseph Biden, the youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate...
...Supreme Court last June rejected some reporters' claims that the First Amendment gave them an absolute right to withhold all confidential sources or information from grand juries. The best known of three cases involved New York Times Reporter Earl Caldwell, whose work among West Coast Black Panthers in 1970 had gained him the attention of a federal grand jury, which subpoenaed him to testify "concerning the aims, purposes and activities of that organization." Caldwell argued that even his appearance at closed hearings would destroy his relationship with his sources. By a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled against...
Screenplay by EARL HAMMER...
Jack Guerney, (Peter O'Toole), the 13th Earl of Guerney has just come into his inheritance by his father's fatal eccentricity. (The old man accidentally hung himself to death in a cocktail hour habit of stringing himself up by the neck in ballerina regalia.) But Jack is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the God of Love, a charming and loveable idiot who can't stop raving about goodness and love. (Jack's explanation for his divine identity is this: "When I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself...
...battle shaping over the First Amendment derives from two specific cases--the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Anthony Russo in connection with the release of the Pentagon Papers, and the rejection of an appeals case based on confidentiality of news sources filed by New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell. The Ellsberg-Russo ease is an extenuation of the 1971 press "victory" before the Supreme Court. The more recent tumult over confidentiality of sources, growing steadily since last July when the Court rejected Caldwell's final appeal by a 5-4 margin, is at the root of the current...