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William Oscar Saunders was in the old tradition: a personal journalist, a high-horsed crusader, a one-man crowd. For 30 years, as editor-publisher of a rural North Carolina weekly, he unremittingly fought graft, corruption, red-neck segregationists, pharisees of all kinds-and some 60 libel suits. Last week, in a book entitled The Independent Man, Saunders' only son, Keith, 52, now an aviation writer in Washington, recalls the turbulent career of one of the last of an all but vanished American journalistic breed. The Elizabeth City Independent, which Saunders launched in 1908 on a borrowed...
Retracting a Libel. Saunders reserved his most withering fire for more vulnerable targets: corrupt politicians, indolence in public office, the outmoded mores and traditions of the Old South. "E. F. Aydlett." read one two-line item about an Elizabeth City attorney who controlled the town, "was seen in the courthouse one day last week with his hands in his own pockets." Aydlett tried to bribe Saunders into silence, with no more effect than those who resorted to threats, legal action and even violence. Walter L. Cohoon, editor of a competitive paper, twice thrashed Saunders on Main Street and also sued...
Faulk brought suit for libel against AWARE, Inc., and against Vincent Hartnett, writer of the pamphlet, and Laurence Johnson, a Syracuse supermarket operator and AWARE, Inc. member, who energetically circulated Hartnett's pamphlet to TV sponsors. The case finally came to trial last April...
...Faulk case no one had ever had the courage to bite back. Faulk's attorney was Louis Nizer, who had earlier helped Quentin Reynolds win a $175,001 verdict in his 1954 suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, the highest award ever made by a jury in a libel case...
...these private vigilante groups." As the trial reached its climax last-week, it was momentarily confused by the death of Defendant Johnson, but the judge declared that Johnson's estate was still liable. The jury then awarded Faulk compensatory and punitive damages that set a new record for libel suits...