Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft cards. "We are a moral movement primarily," says Rothstein, a native New Yorker with a Harvard degree in political philosophy. "It horrifies me that people here can walk around oblivious to the fact that they're responsible for a war and all that war means-destruction and murder. It's as if they'd lost all their moral sense." Booth, who studied political science at Swarthmore College, nods his agreement. "It's not very descriptive to say the Viet Cong are Communists and therefore we have to kill them." Concludes Rothstein: "The Communist nations...
When Ku Klux Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins' trial for the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo ended in a mistrial last spring, it was something of a victory for the prosecution. In that Deep South Lowndes County courtroom at Hayneville, Ala., anything short of outright acquittal had to be considered a surprise. And when Wilkins went on trial again last week, the odds against conviction had not changed. Juries in that very courtroom were remembering their old racist ways. Only last month, before the same Judge T. Werth Thagard who had presided at the first Wilkins trial...
Like a ghost out of his own past, the frail Russian prince sat in a darkened Manhattan courtroom and watched a TV re-enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
Jamais! Indignantly, the prince charged that the telecast recounting the murder had been shown in 1963 without his permission. Its "sexual atmosphere" falsely implied that he lured Rasputin to his palace by "pandering" his beautiful young wife to the Siberian mystic. The still-striking Princess Irina Youssoupoff took the stand to state that she had never known nor ever seen Rasputin. And in angry French, denying that he used his wife as "seductive bait," the prince cried, "Jamais...
...says former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker, "is the ledger in which are recorded our deepest tribal memories." Justice Voelker extracted a bloody page and, under the pseudonym of Robert Traver, translated it into Anatomy of a Murder. In his current novel, set in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula in the 1870s, he tells the faintly fictionalized story of a Chippewa Indian girl named Laughing Whitefish, whose ignorant, much-married father has been bilked of a fortune by a powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish...