Word: polygraph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only indicted Edwards and his fellow accuser of perjury, but also rebuked the newspaper for taking it upon itself to put the witnesses under lie-detector examination. "Neither we nor other judicial tribunals," said the jurors, "believe that truth is made by an operator of a polygraph machine." A harsher rebuke came from Baggs in another News editorial: "The Herald assumed the robes of De Judge and, in effect, pointed a long and accusing inky finger at Mr. Gerstein. The grand jury believes that the Herald should stick to newspapering. We agree...
...city departments such as Los Angeles and Boston generally use a variety of tests combined with psychiatric interviews. A number of departments throw in a polygraph (lie detector) test...
Anti-Bugging. Westin also warns about the polygraph (lie detector) and personality tests that are sometimes required for employment. Worse still, he feels, could be the impact of computers. Already Americans leave a detailed trail of vital data about themselves-insurance questionnaires, loan applications, census forms, employment applications, tax returns, military and school records. If all of these are gathered into one Orwellian information bank, as some officials have proposed, a man's life may well be available at the punch of a button. When all financial transactions begin to be carried out by a universal credit-card...
Star Witnesses. In Russo's case, McGee reported, reactions to a series of questions led a polygraph operator to suspect deception. Moreover, the test seemed to indicate that Russo had a psychopathic personality. But agents from Garrison's office took the list of questions away from the polygraph operator and told him not to say anything. When Garrison presented his case against Clay Shaw at a hearing, Russo and Bundy were his star witnesses. Garrison insists that Shaw, under the name of Clay Bertrand, met in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. Ferric, who committed suicide...
...Guarantee. Even more of a problem is the fact that disturbed people who believe their own fantasies continue to do so even under truth drugs-a factor that also is known to produce unreliable results on polygraph (lie detector) tests. The Kennedy assassination, of course, holds particular fascination for many such individuals. Houston Psychiatrist C. A. Dwyer says that he knows of 15 people in his city alone who have spun incredible tales about the assassination (one tells of having seen Jacqueline Kennedy give Lee Harvey Oswald money), adds that some of them would probably give much the same accounts...