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...Dallas, Cecil Stoughton was the only photographer on Air Force One when they brought Kennedy's body back and Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office. Heart pounding, he squeezed off the 19 frames that showed Johnson repeating the oath as the stunned, blood-spattered Jackie stood beside...
...Areas" and hung it around his neck and set off toward immortality of sorts. He slipped through the crowd filing up the Inaugural stands, found his way to his old spot behind one of the fake pillars. Everything went fine until it was time for Nixon to take the oath. Suddenly, a Secret Service agent said Stoughton couldn't stand there. Get out. Stoughton, for a second, was panicky. The oath of office was about to be administered. Where...
...since the Secret Service man who had dislodged him now ignored him, Cecil stopped a few feet behind the President, took off his beaver hat, dropped down on his knees, hoisted his Nikon and began to shoot. Nixon's arm was up. Pat held the Bibles. The oath rang out. Nixon...
...routines, which dull perception, but of the imprisoning past itself, body knows my personal history old man explains in Ixtlan. 'Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I we either take everything for sure and real or we don't. If we follow the first oath we get bored to death with ourselves and the world. If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state...
...than he is willing to see brought to light--either in print or in court. It is doubtful whether Caldwell would have been admitted to a Black Panther headquarters during a shootout if he could only have promised not to reveal identities, but would have had to reveal under oath everything else he saw. Still, some forms of confidential leaks where the information flow could be carefully regulated by the source might not be discouraged by such a qualified policy of journalists' privilege. At the same time this privilege, even if available to all citizens, would not pose as great...