Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately after the conspiracy convictions in Alabama, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach telephoned the news to Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. The President had taken a special interest in the case and had even announced on television the trio's arrest the day after Mrs. Liuzzo died. He warned the Ku Klux Klan then that he would bring it to heel. After talking to Katzenbach, Johnson said: "The whole nation can take heart from the fact that there are those in the South who believe in justice in racial matters and are determined not to stand for acts...
...would be wrong to say that the snarl is only a pose. Sims actually is a little bit sour on the world. "We might not have organized the Deacons if Katzenbach had sent troops to Bogalusa when they were needed," Sims told Wednesday's press audience. "There's gotta...
Nick's Place. Washington's shoes-off set got its chance to meet the royal couple at a soiree in the home of Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Wife Lydia. Since it was billed as an opportunity for the visitors to meet Washington's "young, gay, amusing people," Washington swingers who did not make the guest list consoled themselves with the fact that the 60 invited live wires included such sobersides as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. Lydia gave the Snowdons an album containing pictures of all the guests as babies. For Tony alone there...
...American courts has been a federal crime since 1875 (Title 18, Section 243), the Justice Department has prosecuted no one for the practice in this century. When an all-white jury recent ly acquitted Tom Coleman for killing a civil rights worker in Hayneville, Ala., Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach could only swallow hard and say: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it is too high a price to pay. The situation has changed a great deal already...
...Novelty. In fact, the Justice Department has scrupulously heeded the intent of the law, which aims primarily to encourage local compliance. Katzenbach has done his utmost to persuade county officials to obey the law rather than have federal registrars sent in. As a result of such pressure-and patience -two-thirds of all new Negro voters have been voluntarily registered by local officials...