Word: fink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From this photograph, I believe, it can be shown that Mr. Fink was not part of the group which obstructed Mr. Williamson in that he did not stand in front of the doorway and did not link arms with those who did, all of whom have their arms linked...
...Committee members in town was Donald Anderson, whom you will remember was one of the signers of the complaint against Fink. I met Anderson in the street a few days after I spoke to Wilson and asked him if he had seen the photo. He told me that "Mr. Wilson showed me the photograph briefly this morning and said he thought there were little grounds for appeal." At the time I did not point out that saying "there were little grounds for appeal" was perhaps not the best way of introducing evidence. I also did not ask Anderson...
Anderson (you will recall once again that he is one of the complainants in this case) told me when I saw him once again that the Committee had based its original decision on three possible levels of guilt in the incident for which Fink was charged. First, it considered those people with their arms linked in front of the doors; second, those close to this
group; and third, those in the surrounding area. It gave different punishments to each group. Fink was in the second group, and the Committee deemed this serious enough to warrant suspension...
...Anderson, Mr. Wilson just told me that one of the interesting things about the photo was that it showed people in front of the doors with their arms linked, and this was something that Mr. Wilson said the Committee did not know at the time it punished Fink. So, you see now Mr. Anderson, this little story you have been telling me, this story about three levels of punishments, well, it's a nice thought isn't it, I mean three levels of punishment, it's a very nice idea, but you know, it's, it's. . . well...