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...concerned, they're damned radicals and damned revolutionaries," he blasted out as Schroeder's brother, also a police officer, stood weeping in the background. Admitting he had no "documented evidence," McNamara charged that the crime was not "an individual act" but one with "undertones of revolutionary type individuals" (sic), a violent robbery and murder committed by "a conspiracy involving more than these five...
Hostile reporters pressed McNamara for clarification. This was the first time the possibility of radical involvement had been mentioned. Declining to give further information, McNamara unloaded some unguarded "personal opinions." "When a group springs up from our colleges that robs banks, that's revolutionary," he said curtly. Are all college students bank robbing revolutionaries? "No," he answered, "I have two daughters in college and they're not revolutionaries." A precarious friendship with Mayor White after the Hemenway incidents, a nation-wide wave of radical bombings, a timid Boston citizenry, afraid to go on the streets at night, a soaring heroin...
Bedraggled reporters left the Commissioner's press conference with a police identification on five suspects, including Valeri- who was already in custody (and it turns out, provided the other names)- the Commissioner's word that two of them were Brandeis students involved in "radical organizations," and McNamara's charge (perhaps it seemed more like a promise) that this was a "conspiracy involving more than these five...
...basis of McNamara's Thursday press conference, the Boston papers went wild with the hint of radical involvement in the bank hold-up. The priest and housewife who were so prominently stabbed on the front page of the papers the morning before were buried between the girdle ads Friday...
...police not followed up their charges of a larger conspiracy with evidence? They had Valeri under intensive questioning for two days. According to one FBI man he was "scared shit and couldn't talk fast enough." What's the motive? What's the link? Is McNamara trying to make the student strike center and the universities the scapegoat for a bank robbery that was barely noted until the wounded officer died and theCommissioner held his press conference...