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Most of the morning was taken up by the last five prosecution witnesses. They were all police officers who detailed the organization and execution of the raid and booking procedure.
After this Lockean statement, the circular went on to show the facts of Quincy's unjustifiable act. First, President Quincy was accused of saying to a group of several students, "We want no Southerners here; we cannot prevent your coming, but we don't want you; go somewhere else." Second...
No less an authority than General David Shoup, retired Marine Corps Commandant and Medal of Honor winner, accuses the armed services of relishing war for the sake of self-aggrandizement, of making the U.S. "a militaristic and aggressive nation." Physicist Herbert York, former Pentagon chief of research, development and engineering...
Although he has made a career out of defending accused killers, Foreman is genuinely horrified at the act of killing. His aversion applies not only to any state-ordered execution of his clients but goes so far as to include game hunters. Foreman takes genuine pleasure in telling the story...
Died. Ben Shahn, 70, U.S. portraitist, poster maker, muralist and artistic polemicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Is there nothing to weep, about in this world any more?" the shaggy-bearded artist once asked. For him, the answer was always yes. Son of a Russian-born immigrant, Shahn was...