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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case against Connally, however, depended on Jacobsen's word. Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, hired by Connally for a reported $250,000 fee, hammered away at Jacobsen's testimony. In a number of instances, he forced the central prosecution witness to back down and acknowledge that he was unsure of some details. Williams also emphasized that Jacobsen, on other occasions, had admitted perjury. Cumulatively, this eroded Jacobsen's credibility and enhanced Connally's. Perhaps no less important was the parade of celebrated witnesses who testified to Connally's integrity. They included: the Rev. Billy Graham...
...young men whom they apparently took to be the bombers. The tragedy of Narrow Water was now complete. The two were merely gawking at what had happened. One was shot in the arm; the other was killed. In addition, 18 soldiers, including Blair, had died -the largest number of British troops lost in a single incident in Ulster...
...want to be a leader of a largeI number of men," Lord Mountbatten once observed, "you can't go around like a shrinking violet hiding yourself: you've got to put on a bit of an act. It must be sincere, it's no good having a bogus act. You've got to play up any qualities you have and blow them up larger than life...
...jury trials, using as an excuse a lone footnote in a 1970 Supreme Court decision suggesting that the Seventh Amendment right to a jury may be limited by "the practical abilities and limitations" of jurors. But earlier this month U.S. Supreme court Chief Justice Warren Burger joined a growing number of bench and bar leaders who question whether modern juries can understand, much less fairly decide, complex, protracted cases...
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Collected Stories, Paul Bowles ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sophie's Choice, William Styron ∙ Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin