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...What we have seen is enough to make a grown man cry." A planeload of 87 other Washington visitors, led by Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie and including Republican Senator Charles Percy and Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, flew in for the funeral of one of the shooting victims, James Earl Green, 17. They heard Fayette Mayor Charles Evers deliver a eulogy in the same hall in which services had been held for his slain brother Medgar. Asked Evers: "How long, O Lord, will our white brothers continue to kill...
Calm men like John Gardner and Earl Warren spoke of social disintegration and grave danger. Citing violations of civil rights, the war and an "atmosphere of repression" as among the major causes, Warren said that there has been no crisis "within the memory of living Americans which compares with this one." The national mood is roiled and apprehensive. Policemen and pro-Nixon workingmen gave vent to their frustrations with the same vehemence as partisans on the other side...
When it was over, two students lay dead: Phillip L. Gibbs, 21, a Jackson State student and the father of an infant son, and James Earl Green, a high school student and track star. Twelve other students were wounded...
Amsterdam has never accepted a legal fee. "I believe in the cause or the client," he says, "and either is more important than money." Yet his clients would be the envy of any criminal lawyer in the country. Besides Maxwell, Amsterdam represents New York Times Reporter Earl Caldwell, who is fighting a federal subpoena that demands his notes on the Black Panthers. He is also assisting in the appeals of Bobby Seale, William Kunstler and the Chicago Seven...
...involves a ban on the mm in Massachusetts; the Maryland ban is waiting in the wings. Although these cases could divide the court, they could also enable it to provide more guidance than the standards set in Fanny Hill Justice Brennan is still on the bench, but Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Abe Fortas, who joined him in that opinion, are gone. Douglas, who concurred is now out of the argument, at least for the Massachusetts case. Brennan's only allies are likely to be Justice Potter Stewart who concurred in Fanny on the basis...