Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal inquest--months later, because of legal maneuvering by Kennedy attorneys, and closed to the public--did little to dispel the mystery. Witnesses revealed that Mary Jo had left her pocketbook and keys at the cottage, hardly the actions of someone eager to return to her motel room. She had a .09 per cent alcohol level in her blood, (equivalent to 3 1/2 to 5 ounces of eighty to ninety proof liquor), although her friends testified she had not been drinking heavily at the party. Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look observed a dark sedan with Massachusetts license plates that began with...
Your reporter also exhibited considerable bias, for he ignored the main, novel issues that were discussed and that provided the framework for the inquest. These included the question whether the criticisms of the study were so serious and so firmly grounded as to justify an appeal to the general public; the obligation of a professor, in generating such an appeal, to see that alternative views are presented; the significance of the precedent of regulating research by one-sided adversel publicity; and the question whether the university should remain passive in the face of such inroads on intellectual freedom...
...titled family and an attack on her employer, the Countess of Lucan, that put the countess in the hospital for a week (TIME, Nov. 25). Thirty-two witnesses, Lady Lucan among them, dryly recited their testimony as the coroner summarized it in longhand. From the start, the inquest had become virtually a trial in absentia of Lord Lucan, 40, who has been missing since the night of the murder. The verdict of the coroner's jury, after only 31 minutes of deliberation: "Murder by Lord Lucan...
...younger Meeropols clearly believe in that defense. They cite a number of the 25 books that have been written about the case, some raising unsettling questions about the conduct of the trial and evidence used at it. Walter and Miriam Schneir's Invitation to an Inquest, for example, alleges after lengthy examination that one of the two Albuquerque hotel registration cards used by the prosecution to link Gold to Greenglass is a forgery...
...viewed the film literally hundreds of times. This was brought home by the unanimous gasp of horror as the frame with the gunman dominated the screen. He had apparently remained unnoticed by the Warren Commission as well, although it had held the film as evidence while making its inquest. According to filmmaker Robert Groden, the unidentified gunman was just spotted earlier this year with the aid of a computer blow-up technique...