Word: gilligans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest such case involves Thomas R. Gilligan, the New York City police lieutenant who was off duty when he shot and killed a 15-year-old Negro in 1964, thus triggering six nights of rioting in Harlem and Brooklyn. Gilligan became the symbol of Negro demands that New York disarm off-duty cops and set up a civilian review board to curb police "brutality." Civil rights groups plastered Harlem with his picture under the heading WANTED FOR MURDER...
...Gilligan was later exonerated in both grand jury and departmental investigations, which held that he killed in self-defense after being attacked with a knife. As a result, last May he filed a $5,250,000 libel suit alleging that he had been falsely accused of murder by a flock of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King. Predictably, the defendants moved for dismissal on the ground that the Times doctrine stripped Gilligan of any cause for action. Predictably, Gilligan's lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, countered by claiming that the doctrine does not apply to a minor, nonelected government...
...Coach Bill Gilligan contacted the Harvard athletic department over the holidays in an effort to fill an open date on his schedule. McCurdy accepted the challenge and set the meet for Briggs Cage on Saturday with the first running event scheduled...
That leaves the squad in the hands of field events coach Ed Stowell. Stowell will be intent on making a good showing against B.C. since the Boston sportswriters delight in calling Gilligan the Bay's best coach in field performers...
...GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). A new series about a fishing party that gets stranded on an uninhabited island à la Swiss Family Robinson. Premiere...