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...moved by the statement of Arthur Krause [Dec. 24], whose daughter was killed at Kent State-"I'll show you; I'll make the system work." Though I deplore the lengths he had to go to get a grand jury investigation, I must thank him for acting on a much neglected moral premise: no system can provide justice (or anything else) automatically There is no substitute for people who care enough to work for what is right. Perhaps Krause personifies Jefferson's dictum. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance...
...private eye and earful; other ops-Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance and Martin Kane-were even more hardboiled. Ben Hecht himself could not glamorize the press as well as oldtime radio. Britt Reid (the true identity of the Green Hornet) was a newspaperman; so, for that matter, was Clark Kent, Superman in mufti. Front Page Farrell had an adventure a day. Big Town recounted the trials of Steve Wilson of the Illustrated Press, a crusader second only to Casey, Crime Photographer...
...fatal shooting of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen in May 1970 is a tragedy that has never been satisfactorily explained, and until recently there was little hope that it ever would be. The state grand jury that investigated the killings indicted 25 students and others for acts of rioting and other violations, some of which presumably provoked the Guardsmen's rifle fire; 23 of them were eventually cleared. None of the Guardsmen or their officers were ever legally charged with violations, though their conduct was sharply criticized by FBI investigations and a presidential commission headed...
Further, the grand jury will hear that the Justice Department, after analyzing some 8,000 pages of FBI reports, concluded that the Guard units called to Kent State were not surrounded by hostile students and that they were responsible for unwarranted killings; that they fired at students when they were in no real danger themselves. Justice officials said that the Guardsmen's defense that they opened fire to protect themselves seemed to be "fabricated...
...record deal fell through in August when the producer who was backing them had a serious auto accident and left the business, and now, the Sweat Band is doing some recording of original songs by Bancroft and his brother Gordon. Kent is taking a producing course at the Orson Welles Cinema that includes use of a studio, but the group has to pay for each record they press...