Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police restrain themselves as much as they do," he said in Cleveland last week. "If they could run this country for about two years," he has said at other times, "they'd straighten it out." They might even straighten out Alabama, which last year had the highest murder rate in the nation...
...Communism." But lately his political prose has acquired an almost Wallaceite ring. In Jacksonville last week he told a rally: "When little old ladies have to wear tennis shoes so they can outleg the criminals on city streets, there's something wrong. When arson and larceny and the murder of law-enforcement officials become stylish forms of dissent in the country, then there's something very wrong with what's going...
Guidance and Culture. Ironically, the Hatchett affair was largely the result of Hester's moving too hastily on a student request. He had set up the Afro-American Center as a response to black-student feelings after King's murder. It was to be a place where black students could meet informally to get guidance on nonacademic problems and discuss black history and culture. Negro students had proposed Hatchett as director, and N.Y.U. approved without adequate checking...
...third-floor cell in the Memphis courthouse, watched over by two ever-present deputies. Eight bright mercury-vapor lamps burn at all times. Two closed-circuit TV cameras are always trained on the cell. Except when Ray is conferring with his lawyer, a microphone listens in. Only one other murder suspect in the U.S. is currently being held under such strict security provisions. That man is Sirhan Sirhan, who will stand trial in Los Angeles for the murder of Robert Kennedy...
...wife (Vanessa Redgrave). Scenarist Charles Wood (How I Won the War) overloads the script with totally unsubtle pacifist propaganda. "It will be a sad day," intones Lord Raglan, Britain's supreme commander in Crimea, "when England has officers who know what they're doing . . . it smacks of murder...