Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outspoken critic of the radical right, California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel has been the subject of repeated smears. Last week, after three weeks of hearings, a Los Angeles County grand jury indicted four men on charges of conspiring to commit criminal libel against...
...James sued Powell for libel, went to court, won a $211,500 jury verdict, which a judge later cut down to $46,500. To avoid paying off, Powell has since steered clear of New York, spent most of his time commuting between Capitol Hill, where he manages to appear for two or three days every week or so, and his villa in Puerto Rico. Interest on his evaded libel penalty has increased the amount owed to $52,000, and last week a jury, reviewing the whole history of the case, awarded Mrs. James an additional $210,000 for a total...
...behalf. And last week he chose for the first time to give any public explanation of "my side of the case." He rose in the House of Representatives, where he could say whatever he wished and, under the U.S. Constitution, be legally free and clear of any threat of libel or slander...
...since, and is under indictment on a first-degree murder charge. Police have been hunting for Martin and Hawkins for months, but apparently the two men are, like Powell himself, on the lam. As for his latest charge against Esther James, Powell probably would have been hit with another libel suit if he had made it anywhere except on the House floor, where he has immunity...
Once upon a time in 1960, New York Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 56, called a Harlem housewife named Esther James a "bagwoman," meaning, in Harlem patois, that she was a graft collector for the police department. Mrs. James, declaring her innocence, won a $46,500 libel judgment against him, but thanks to his intricate legal dodges, it may be a long time before she collects. Nonetheless, Mrs. James's bag, in theory at least, should be comfortably full. Last week the State Supreme Court in Manhattan awarded her an extra $163,500, as a result of Adam...