Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little Harold Loughan if The People, a sensational London Sunday newspaper, had not printed the memoirs of Prosecutor Casswell. In one installment, Casswell claimed that Harold Loughan would have been convicted if all the evidence had been heard. Loughan, now 66 and in jail as usual, sued for libel, claiming he had been called a murderer despite his official innocence...
Murder or Libel. The newspaper's lawyer argued that even if the articles did amount to calling Loughan a murderer, truth is a defense against libel, and Casswell had finally shown that Loughan had indeed murdered Rose Robinson 19 years ago. For eleven days the jury heard evidence of the old murder-with Loughan still protesting his innocence. "You are asked to try again a murder in the guise of a libel action," his lawyer complained to the jury. Last week the jury returned its verdict: The People was not guilty of libel because Loughan was guilty...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight's theme: libel...
...Border. What the Herald got was an undomesticated ego with the habit of erecting insults on the very borderline of libel. When Jack Ricciardi, Boston's commissioner of public works, faced the prospect of appearing as a witness before a U.S. congressional committee (he was never summoned), all Frazier could talk about was Ricciardi's curly hair. "My own view," wrote Frazier, "is that if U.S. Representative John Blatnik has any feeling for beauty, he will first compliment Mr. Ricciardi on his barber. Then, if he has any investigative zeal, he will inquire how many strokes with...
Showing what seemed to many to be a confusion between freedom to speak and license to libel, Newton failed to act decisively. By the time he got around to removing the student editor for irresponsibility, it was too late to erase an impression that the president did not think the attack on Goldwater was anything to make a fuss about. On Election Day came the reckoning: riled-up voters elected two outspoken Newton-must-go Republicans to the university's board of regents. Last week, with the election results ringing in his ears, Newton announced his resignation, effective next...