Word: fingerprinted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fingerprint. There had been almost no Negroes in the California town of Beckwith's birth. When, upon moving to Mississippi, he first saw a black man, he asked a relative: "When God made Negroes, did he cover them with mud and hang them on a fence...
Such obsessions-if the criminal charges against him are correct-led Beckwith to the assassination of Negro Leader Medgar Evers. In the honeysuckle patch where the killer hid, police found an abandoned rifle. FBI agents traced its ownership to Beckwith, a gun collector; they also identified a fingerprint on the weapon as Beckwith's. Arrested by the FBI, Beckwith was turned over to state authorities, who are demanding that he be sentenced to death...
Neutron activation analysis functions best as a reverse application of the common fingerprint technique-instead of gathering evidence a criminal leaves at the scene of his crime, it permits examination of evidence that the scene (or the weapon) leaves on the criminal. It can serve as an omniscient monitor of the most carefully planned alibis...
...legal. An Englishman kicked off his boots on the gallows to disprove his mother's prophecy that he would die in them; a British judge, asked why he dubbed a certain barrister "Necessity," answered: "Because he knows no law." It corrects popular misconceptions: Bertillon, far from creating fingerprint identifications, was skeptical of their value. It shows how greatly writers can misconceive: Conan Doyle protested that developing character in detective stories could only endanger the plot. Perhaps its most unforgettable statement is a sentence concerning Scotland's High Court of Justiciary. "The maximum penalty which may be imposed...
...days after Bogen's report, police arrested an English teacher for burglary and attempted rape, found that his record carried two Peeping Tom convictions. So what about those who, like him, got in before fingerprinting? Bogen has decided to fingerprint them when they take tests for promotion. If the police-record rate of the applicants applies to practicing teachers too. 3% of the city's teachers are in for trouble...