Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1965, two Fort Worth gas-station attendants reported that a couple of Negro gunmen had robbed them of $3,000 in broad day light. Not until a month later did the city's undermanned police force pick up a suspect. Then Negro Truck Driver Ervin Byrd, 33, was nabbed on an anonymous tip. Though he loudly pro tested his innocence, the cops were satisfied, and the victims quickly picked Byrd out of a lineup...
Slightly Embarrassing. The Fort Worth prosecutor promptly tested McKinley Powell, 36, another Negro truck driver, who had been accused of murder last June. Powell also passed-whereupon his accuser confessed the crime. The day after Powell's release, the prosecutor tested Donald G. Carter, 19, who had spent three months in jail awaiting trial for a burglary that he insisted he did not commit. Carter also passed; the police rechecked his story and belatedly discovered that he was telling them the truth from the start: he was in state prison on another charge at the time of the burglary...
Conceding that "this sort of thing is embarrassing," Fort Worth's top police announced a new policy: lie-detector tests for any suspect who requests one. Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr suggested that the same policy may be advisable throughout the state. Amid all the good intentions, though, no one paid much heed to the hazards, notably the possibility of testing error and the fact that from now on, police may well assume the guilt of suspects who refuse the tests...
...past several months, women have gone to work producing steel and rebuilding auto parts in Chicago, loading post-office vans and delivering the mail in Atlanta, welding and operating metal-stamping machines in Fort Worth, driving cabs in Seattle, running power cranes in Los Angeles, and pumping gas at service stations along the Illinois Toll Road. Elsewhere, women have been engaged as draftsmen, meatcutters, warehouse laborers, helicopter pilots and company guards...
Ever since he drove across the border into Mexico, Dykes Simmons, 38, has had good reason to reflect upon the problems of American suspects abroad. For seven years, while he has sweated out a death sentence in his sun-baked prison cell in Monterrey, the Fort Worth crane operator, now a convicted murderer, has pondered the harsh fact that whatever Mexican law says, an American defendant may well have to prove his innocence in the face of assumed guilt. In a U.S. court, a prosecutor would have had to prove Simmons' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt-a difficult...