Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...QUIT STALLING, BRING HIM IN; Bailey contended, was that Cleveland Press Editor Louis Seltzer (who recently retired) thought that only his paper could prevent a cover-up of the murder. Once the trial began, Bailey argued, Seltzer pressed for a conviction so that his paper would be protected against libel suits...
From time to time, he glances with a confused expression around the court room. The prosecutor and chairman read the proofs of his libel, indignant...
...Report that Backfired. In state court, where he sued Webster instead of the Birch Society, the angry editor fared better. The defense tried the classic libel defense of truth. McGaw's editorial, the lawyers said, followed the Communist line, just as Webster had charged. Appearing as a star witness, Far-Right Commentator Dan Smoot agreed that the editorial was Communist lining, and the same point was made in a deposition from Martin Dies, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. But then the defense quoted some words of praise for the John Birch Society from a California...
...Democrat attacked the well-entrenched local political machine of Sheriff Marlin Hawkins, a close ally of Governor Orval Faubus. After accusing the machine of election fraud, Wirges was threatened, beaten up and shot at. Harassed by every possible legal weapon his enemies could dream up, Wirges lost two libel suits for a total of $275,000. A $75,000 judgment was later overturned by the Arkansas Supreme Court; the $200,000 verdict has been set aside, and the case will be retried...
...perjury charge stemmed from one of his libel trials, and Wirges had little doubt that he would be convicted. The members of the jury, which included an illiterate and a man whose son is soon to stand trial for murder in the same court, were all well-known to the sheriff. Even before the verdict, Wirges' friends, including the defeated Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, were busily getting ready to finance an appeal...