Word: lifers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week it appeared that Bubba's case would be reopened. In the meantime, he is undergoing psychiatric examination at Parchman, where he is being protected by a trusted lifer assigned him by the warden. Says Defense Counsel Julie Ann Epps: "He's a terrified little boy who really doesn't understand what's going on. He doesn't know what 48 years...
Over 45. Life settles down; one becomes less competitive, more inner-directed. The post-mid-lifer is calm and accepting; there is a sense that "we are whoever we are going...
...Jesus in the full moon over Cannes. Cleaver was later converted by a prison "God squad." In Will You Die for Me? (Revell), due in April, Charles ("Tex") Watson, leader of the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders, tells how he supplanted Charles Manson with Jesus Christ. Watson, a mandatory lifer, now preaches three times a month and teaches a weekly class for newly converted convicts...
...fact all too similar ilk is David Felton's article on his seven years at Rolling Stone. Written in an obnoxious first-person style, the piece pretends to be an indictment couched in cutesiness, a tongue-in-cheek account of the trials and tribulations of a Rolling Stone "Lifer." Felton hurls the obligatory barbs at Wenner, whom he portrays as an insufferable tyrant prone to harassing Felton and other staffers who can't seem to meet a deadline. But it is all done in good fun, you see; despite all the apparent frustrations and hassles of working for the magazine...
When CBS News Producer Barry Lando interviewed Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert for a 1971 report on prisoners of war in South Viet Nam, he found the soldier too good to be true: a gung-ho, ribbon-covered lifer who was being quietly drummed out of the Army for uncovering U.S. war crimes. CBS broadcast Lando's report of Herbert's plight, and Herbert later became a talk-show hero among foes of the war; his 1973 autobiography, Soldier, hit the bestseller lists...