Word: mccuistion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kicks or Instruments. The smoke screen lifted even further at the companion trial of three Turkish cops accused of beating Sergeants Dale McCuistion and James King in an attempt to make them confess to dealings with Mrs. Gall. Air Force Colonel Robert N. Wilkinson, the first U.S. officer to see the sergeants after their arrest, told the court he had not been permitted to talk to them until they had been in prison about 30 hours. When he did, "King was shaking nervously, could hardly speak, and had difficulty standing up . . . He had a secretion at the corner...
...other U.S. witness was Lieut. Colonel Charles N. Moss, medical officer and commander of the Air Force hospital in Izmir. He told the court he was unable to get in to see the sergeants for some 36 hours. When he did, he found McCuistion severely bruised in five places on his chest, shoulders and back. Asked by the judge if the bruises could have been caused resisting arrest, Moss replied: "It is unlikely that all were sustained resisting arrest. Some seem to have come from severe kicks or an instrument...
Whose Memory? Later that day, at the separate trial of three Turkish cops charged with beating Sergeants Dale McCuistion and James King in an attempt to extract confessions from them, the Americans fared no better. The accused cops produced a parade of witnesses who claimed to have been present at the questioning of McCuistion and King and to have seen no signs of brutality. But when Sergeant McCuistion asked the judge to question one of the witnesses more closely on timing, the judge coolly remarked: "Well, who would think of marking down the date anyway." Nor did the court make...
...took [King] into the stables (where they previously beat two Turks) and I could hear him screaming . . . When he came out his feet were so swollen that he couldn't get [them] in his shoes and could just about walk. His handkerchief was bloody and he was crying . . . McCuistion was beaten in the morning. I saw him about six . . . They then separated us and I didn't see him any more until 1100 hours. His shirt was torn, no glasses on, blood and scratches on his face and red bruises all over his body. He was also crying...
...Sept. 12, then slapped a ban on further reporting of the proceedings in the Turkish press. Meanwhile, all signs were that, whatever the status-of-forces agreement might say, U.S. consular officials had shown little interest in getting in touch with the four sergeants. During the testimony, Sergeant Dale McCuistion, the chief defendant, angrily blurted that a fellow serviceman's Turkish wife, who had been with McCuistion at the time of his arrest, had not appeared in court because "the American consul gave her a U.S. visa and let her get out of Turkey." Infuriated by the charge...