Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A Jew in Czarist Russia was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy; it was a cause célèbre out of which Malamud has constructed a memorable tale of one man's nightmare...
Thus, after a secluded fortnight in Woodside, Calif., the wan-looking Illinois Republican announced that he would resume his campaign this week for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Paul Douglas, 74. Both had suspended the race after the Sept. 18 murder of Percy's daughter Valerie-a case that remained a mystery last week-and Percy, 47, went out of his way to thank Douglas for acting "generously, graciously and with understanding...
Honolulu in 1931, a train of events that was to lead to murder and the crass mishandling of justice. As a crime story, the Massie case had everything; it was one of those lurid combinations of violence and unreason that not only command horrified attention at the time they happen but make for compelling reading when reconstructed later. Peter Van Slingerland, a freelance journalist, retells the case with the crisp assurance of a good crime reporter. He claims to have done even more-more than the authorities were able to do at the time. He identifies the man who killed...
...Hearst papers promptly dubbed Kahahawai's murder "the honor slaying"; New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson sent Grace Fortescue a cable that summed up the prevailing public sentiment: ADMIRATION AND SYMPATHY. In this highly charged atmosphere, the "honor slayers" faced trial for second-degree murder, confidently hired the great Clarence Darrow to defend them...
Tommie Massie left the Navy and vanished into civilian respectability-which is where Van Slingerland found one of the lieutenant's "deputies," Albert Jones. According to the author, Jones at last set the record straight on Joe Kahahawai's murder...