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Boston Police Commissioner Edmund McNamara immediately raised the possibility of a "damned radical, damned revolutionary" plot involving more than the five suspects. Others questioned the greater-conspiracy theory, but suggested that three of the bank robbers were bent on using the loot to finance their radical cause. Though novel in the U.S. today, the idea is not entirely new. Quebec separatist terrorists have long been suspected of robbing Montreal banks in order to support their movement. Some South American revolutionaries have tried similar capers. But if the plot theory is correct, it could represent a basic departure in radical tactics...
...office of Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara Thursday morning filled up quickly. Patrolman Schroeder had just died a half hour before in St. Elizabeth's where he underwent four hours of surgery and had received 77 pints of blood...
...This was McNamara's first press conference in more than a year. If some reporters expected McNamara simply to culogize the slain officer and offer his condolences to the family, others knew the Commissioner's growing anger and confusion over what was happening in his city. Over the summer, a Roxbury police station was bombed; another station was hit in nearly Burlington; and reports of police slain in Des Moines, San Francisco, and Minneapolis received more than passing consideration as they crossed his desk...
...McNamara accepted the Commissioner's job from former mayor John Collins, who wanted to upgrade the position by bringing in a professional cop rather than another in the long line of politicians who had occupied it previously. After 18 years as an FBI agent, McNamara was not accustomed to dealing with the highly politicized role in which he was cast. As the police liaison with City Hall, he had to contend with political tampering from above and internal pressure "to take off the handcuffs" from below. He was the mediator and fixer in all personal police matters: off duty cops...
...uncomfortable position in which most of the people the Commissioner deals with wear their feelings on their sleeves. The job does not breedsubtlety; the best you can hope for is honesty. And McNamara this morning was honest to the point of embarrassment...