Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise climax to a long series of legal hanky-panky, Samuvel L. Popkin, lecturer in Government, was freed from Norfolk County Correctional Institute after a week of imprisonment...
...Popkin had been sent to jail the previous week by District court Judge W. Arthur Garrity as a penalty for his continual refusal to answer certain questions before a Boston grand jury investigating the distribution of Pentagon Papers. The sentence was set to expire at the scheduled end of the grand jury's term, on January...
...government's steadfast refusal in court to take any compromise in order to reduce or eliminate popkin's sentence seemed to indicate that it had a definite idea of what he could provide for them, and that it was willing to wait to get it. Nevertheless, in an extremely surprising move, representatives of the U.S. Attorney's Office asked District Judge Frank J. Murray to disband the grand jury, thus automatically freeing popkin...
More surprising, perhaps, were statements by several sources that Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, had played a "highly significant" part in negotiations with the government to free Popkin...
...Popkin was jailed for refusing to answer three of an original 14 questions asked by the Boston grand jury in its March 27 session. Two of those questions sought to determine whom he had interviewed to gain his knowledge of the participants in the Pentagon Papers study. A third asked if he had discussed the content or existence of the papers between January 1 and June...