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...aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk nosed into the waters of San Diego harbor last week to end a marathon 9½-month tour at sea and to face a bitter post-mortem on one of the worst race riots in modern naval history. The sights and the sounds of the homecoming were mostly friendly, with helium-filled OPERATION WELCOME balloons lifting off the pier and mothers of crewmen's children born since the ship sailed waving from a special stand. But as the giant vessel came to port, two black crewmen, framed against the disk of the radar screen, lifted...
...Liacos, the author of the report, claims that his responsibility was only to investigate the possibility of "police misconduct" in the incident, which included the arrest of Thomas F. Doyle, another East Cambridge youth. Liacos was denied access to the testimony of the doctors who conducted the post-mortem examinations of Largey's body by Judge Morris N. Gould, who is presiding over the official state inquest. Consequently, Liacos rightly claims that he had "insufficient evidense" to attempt a denomination of the cause of Largey's death...
...autopsy which was conducted by Dr. David Spain, the pathologist who performed a second autopsy on slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, was ordered by the Largey family after eyewitnesses to the youth's arrest cast doubt on the verdict of the official state post mortem...
Suspicions in the community have prompted a second autopsy, this time conducted by Dr. David Spain, the pathologist who performed the post mortem on Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. But the results of Spain's examination are being kept secret until the opening of a state inquest into the death on November...
Some groups, including Orthodox Jews, still oppose both post-mortem examinations and dissection, but most Reform and Conservative Jews favor the idea, as do many Roman Catholics. "Our only consideration is that a body be buried after use," says Bishop John Ward of Los Angeles. "Whether or not a person donates his organs or, indeed, his entire body to science is, of course, a very personal matter in which we would not want to interfere." Nor do undertakers object to the trend. Many are retained by medical schools to store or transport bodies, and have enough traditional patrons to keep...