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...James McKeon, the police sergeant who arrested the three freshmen, was at the cemetery on another assignment when he claims to have found the students drinking beer around their parked car. En route to the Wakefield police headquarters, the trio, which was following McKeon in their car, reportedly tried to throw two typewriters from the auto...
Acting on the advice of a medical evaluation board, the Marine Corps began honorable discharge proceedings on Corporal Matthew McKeon, a staff sergeant drill instructor until he led six recruits to their death on a night march through the swamps of Parris Island, S.C. nearly three years ago. Troubled by a ruptured spinal disk, McKeon, twelve years a leatherneck, gets $5,700 in severance pay, said simply: "I hate to leave the corps...
...Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Pfc. Matthew C. McKeon, broken from staff sergeant for leading six Parris Island boots to their drowning in a disciplinary night march (TIME, April 23, Aug. 13, 1956), was voted "Marine of the Month" by his present outfit, the 114th All Weather Fighter Squadron...
Brooding over the court-martial of the best D.I. in his Platoon 399, Lieut. William D. Conroy, 26, strode four days later into the platoon barracks, found Recruit Porter and slugged him. Last week at Parris Island, in the same courtroom where Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon had stood trial for the death march into the boondocks (TIME, July 30; Aug. 13), another court-martial convened. Lieut. Conroy, a regular officer, pleaded guilty to conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. After deliberating 50 minutes, a general court ordered him dismissed from the service...
Asked how he would have handled the McKeon case if he had been attorney for the prosecution, and had uncovered the same facts about the case as he had collected for the defense, Berman replied that "facts lend themselves to different inferences." He said that his handling of the case was somewhat different than if it had been tried in a non-military court, because in the court-martial, the jury is a "tribunal of experts...