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America has not always been even this tolerant. In World War I 142 CO's were sentenced to life imprisonment. (They were eventually pardoned.) Norman Thomas writes describing the brutal treatment of CO's in training camps: "Men were forcibly clad in uniform, beaten, pricked or stabbed with bayonets, jerked...
The Council acted humanely itself by overruling the majority of the Parole Board. It recognized what a horrible injustice it would have been to have allowed an execution this month while a real chance exists next month that the General Court may suspend the death penalty.
The Massachusetts Executive Council, in a related move, acted wisely and generously Wednesday when it voted to grant convicted murderer Charles E. Tracy a six-month respite from execution. In December, 1963, Tracy was sentenced to die for the shooting of Patrolman James J. Gallagher in a Boston bank on...
The "Dallas Oligarchy Theory," argued by Author Thomas Buchanan, has it that the assassination was engineered by a Texas oil millionaire who thought Kennedy stood in his way to domination of the world petroleum market. The "Cuba-Framed Theory," proposed by Fidel Castro, holds that Oswald's activities in...
When Chapman went on sabbatical in the Fall of '63, he was replaced not by George Hamlin, assistant director of the Loeb, but by Seltzer. Seltzer was on the faculty, which probably explains why he got the temporary post and Hamlin didn't. Seltzer's ideas about integrating the Loeb...