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Suicide, said the police. Murder, charged Settles' parents and black leaders. A rally on the Long Beach campus raised several thousand dollars to cover the Settleses' legal fees in a coroner's inquest and a $50 million suit against the police for wrongful death, negligence and violation of civil rights. When a demonstration in front of the station house was announced, the police boarded their windows and asked the county sheriff for protection...
Last month the jury at a Los Angeles County coroner's inquest ruled that Settles had died "at the hands of another, other than by accident." The key issues concerned the nature of Settles' injuries and whether he was killed by the mattress cover found around his neck. Officer Brown and five colleagues invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify. The family's attorneys relied heavily on Bernard Bradley, 24, the only other prisoner at the jail when Settles arrived. Bradley testified that he had heard Settles moaning and screaming as three...
...inquest into the soul of an American city, Malle's film offers a catalogue of detailed horrors--I'm surprised the city's Board of Tourism didn't find some way to block its distribution. A pair of young people, Robert Joy as Joe and Hollis McLaren as the pregnant Chrissie, make their way down the highway towards this mecca of evil at the film's beginning, and you figure they are innocents who will be ground up by the Big City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine...
However, the new image Black journalists gained among world reporters and their own leaders only increased the difficulties under which they and their white English-speaking counterparts labor. Today a Defense Act prevents reporters from writing anything pertaining to the military without permission from the Commissioner of Defense. An inquest act forbids stories containing anything except the verdict of an inquest, and a Prison Act regulates reports on prisons, prisoners and prison life...
...Digest, in addition, produced a second allegation: when Kennedy's rented 1967 Oldsmobile approached the bridge, he had been driving at 30 to 38 m.p.h., rather than 20 m.p.h., as he testified at the inquest. It based this conclusion on computer studies conducted by an auto-safety expert. Had "a reasonably attentive driver" actually approached the bridge at 20 m.p.h. or so, the Digest asserted, he would have seen the bridge in time to brake safely to a stop. The point seems secondary; whatever Kennedy's speed that fateful night, it obviously was too fast for the washboard...