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...opportunity to criticize him in the media. My hours on the phone were rewarded last month in Nashville when Hicks delivered an emotional performance of everything from his original music to that of the Carter Family. It was the best vote I have cast in 28 years. Mary Kissel, OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY...
Mary Kissel, OWENSBORO...
...will instantly become news.) But this kind of metaspectacle can be powerful. The last official public execution, in 1936, became the last of its kind precisely because of media attention, not to the hanging itself - of a 22-year-old black man convicted of rape and murder in Owensboro, Ky. - but to the 20,000 mostly white Owensboro citizens who filled the streets, a "Roman holiday" that repulsed readers nationwide. The Bureau of Prisons knows this lesson well, having barred demonstrators from carrying frying pans or any other prop that might too gauchely convey that they are happy a killer...
Jason T. Sauer '02, chair of the IOP Forum advisory committee, lives in Owensboro, Kentucky, less than two hours away from Centre College. He said he has friends at the school who have worked hard on the debate effort...
...Southern high school graduates are] more likely to go where their parents went or where their sisters or brothers are," says M. Rachael Lovett '03, a native of Owensboro...