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...State's Attorney contest, incumbent Edward V. Hanrahan appeared to be the winner over Daley's choice, former traffic court Judge Raymond Berg, and an independent, Donald Page Moore...
...Chicago, a special grand jury set out to discover what really happened in the police shooting of Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton. After listening to no fewer than 41 witnesses, it eventually charged Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan with conspiring to obstruct justice by covering up for the police (TIME, Sept. 6). Hanrahan, who presumably enjoyed the acquiescence of past grand juries, is now attacking the indictment on the ground that the special prosecutor exerted undue influence on the jurors...
Always much more concerned with affairs at home than in Washington, Daley wants above all to keep his machine intact; recently it has taken quite a beating from scandals involving former Governor Otto Kerner and State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan. Rather than get out of the primary as Daley instructed him, Hanrahan is battling the machine's candidate for state's attorney. Daley will have his hands full keeping Cook County under control. If Muskie can help him, then Muskie will be his candidate-provided that the Senator does not stumble along the way in the primaries...
That is the last thing he actually wants. His own power has been threatened not by a liberal Democrat who can be casually written off but by a loyal son of the machine-a sign of inner decay. By staying in the race, Hanrahan will boost the chances of the independent candidate for Governor, Dan Walker, a Chicago lawyer and onetime vice president of Montgomery Ward who authored the famed Walker Report on rioting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. If they emerge divided from a bruising primary, the Democrats will not be in the best shape to defeat Nixon...
...charged that the cops came in shooting, while the police argued that the blacks fired first. A federal grand jury reported that there was evidence that only one bullet had been fired by the Panthers, v. at least 82 by the cops. Charges were dropped against the Panthers, and Hanrahan was accused of obstructing justice by covering up for the police and interfering with the defense of the surviving Panthers...