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...ever doubted Poindexter's intellect. "Even when we were kids, John was someone special," recalls his cousin Richard Poindexter, 54, who was close to him in childhood. "We knew he was extremely intelligent and seemed even then destined for greater things." The son of a banker, John Marlan Poindexter grew up in Odon, Ind. (pop. 1,400), described by Richard Poindexter as a "very conservative, Bible-belt community." A thin, shy and bookish child, Poindexter was an exemplary student who won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother Ellen recalls that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next, the Most Important Witness? | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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