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Whenever Tom Mooney tells the story of his martyrdom he has at least one new fact to freshen it up. Last week, this concerned the famed photograph-in which the State claims the clock hands were retouched-which is the strongest piece of circumstantial evidence in Mooney's favor. Said Convict Mooney...
...When Tom Mooney was tried in 1917 for the San Francisco Preparedness Day Parade bombing that killed ten people, most of the U. S. was inclined to agree with the court that found him guilty. In the 21 years since, U. S. opinion and Tom Mooney have changed considerably. Time, and doubt about his guilt, have made Mooney, to a majority of the U. S. (as revealed by a Gallup Poll last January), seem the victim of an outrageous miscarriage of justice. In San Quentin jail. Convict Mooney has come to see himself clearly in the role of the nation...
...narrow margin (37-to-30) the Assembly had voted down a proposal to have the proceedings broadcast over a national hookup. Concealing whatever chagrin he felt at this. Convict Mooney, dressed in the neat blue suit he wears on such occasions, began his story quietly into a loudspeaker which promptly required adjustment. While it was being repaired, newspaper and newsreel cameramen flocked about the celebrity. Said Convict Mooney: "I hope you people in the room will bear with me but after being buried for 21 years ... I sort of take to all this...
Into the loudspeaker when it was working again Convict Mooney poured the sorry tale that has become his lifework. (In his San Quentin cell the walls are lined with 20 volumes of legal records in his case.) Rambling back to his childhood, he explained how a beating when he played hookey from school "made Tom Mooney rebel"; how his activities as an agitator caused San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to take "possession of the District Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney...
After four hours of testimony Convict Mooney ended his story as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose for cameras again as he left the Assembly Chamber...