Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John W. Perdew '64, free on bail after three months in an Americus, Ga., jail, spoke last night of a "depressing situation" in the South and the "human problems" of integration...
Released by the Japanese after two months, Minh duly reported back to the French-only to be jailed for his insurrection. He and several other prisoners were put in a crowded, reeking cell with neither light nor toilet, ankle-deep in human excrement. Minh "almost went crazy," was freed after three months, thanks to a fellow prisoner who was released before Minh and intervened on his behalf with the French commandant. The friend: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's Vice President and the military junta's choice last week for Premier. Although Minh is universally deemed anti-Communist...
...mansion after the debut of Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18. After hearing the story, a grand jury returned indictments against 13 young social lions and one girl, Subdeb Mimi Russell, 17, daughter of Vogue Publisher Edwin Russell. If convicted of the misdemeanor, they each face up to six months in jail and $250 in fines...
...three months the Sumter County, Ga., jail held four young men-three white, one Negro, all Northerners-who were arrested last August in Americus, during civil rights demonstrations. They were charged with "inciting insurrection," a capital crime in Georgia, so there was no bail (TIME, Nov. 1). Their lawyers believed the state did not care whether the four were ever brought to trial. Said Attorney Morris B. Abram: "These people are being held and offered bail only if they give up their constitutional rights, that is, leave the county, leave the state." And Sumter County Prosecutor Stephen Pace Jr. admitted...
John W. Perdew '64 was released yesterday from the Americus, Ga., jail where he had been imprisoned since Aug.8...