Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLOWUP. Actor David Hemmings comes into sharp focus as a pop photog who happens to take a picture of a murder (committed by Vanessa Redgrave) that he blows up, and which in turn blows up his whole mod scene...
...civil rights moderate: "No self-respecting Negro should have involved himself in this thing." The Amsterdam News, the Negro weekly, bannered: NEGRO REPUBLICANS OUTRAGED. In Harlem there was open talk of assassination-and in view of the 1958 attempt on Martin Luther King's life and the 1965 murder of Malcolm X, the threat to Meredith could not be disregarded...
Truth was written by Charles Roberts, an able newsman who has been Newsweek's White House correspondent since 1954. Roberts was in Dallas the day of the murder and became one of the two newsmen (the other: U.P.I.'s Merriman Smith) to fly back to Washington on the plane carrying the dead President and his successor. And, unlike Manchester, who was originally commissioned by the Kennedy family, Roberts has written his account "without authorization from anyone, not as a Kennedy man or as a Johnson man, but as a reporter who covered both Presidents...
...reversing Samuel Sheppard's murder conviction last June, the Supreme Court suggested that the bar and the police should button their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public's right to know" and foster "secret law enforcement" that shields lax or crooked police from press scrutiny. Fueling the fuss is the fact that the U.S. Judicial Conference, which recommends rules for federal courts, will soon weigh possible crime-news curbs that might later be adopted by state courts...
...stage, another sort of anarchy is going on, the kind that can exorcise those suppressed fantasies of rape, murder, and pillage, which have made you dull and out of sorts all winter. This year the anarchy is called "A Hit and a Myth," and I can think of no one who doesn't need to see it at least once...