Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Samuel L. Popkin, lecturer in Government, was freed from prison yesterday after the U.S. government disbanded the Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers case...
...Popkin had served one week of a sentence imposed for his continual refusal to answer questions before the grand jury...
Reliable sources told The Crimson yesterday that Daniel Stemer '54 general counsel to the University played a "highly significant part in negotiations to release Popkin...
...short, the government wants Popkin to act as an investigator for its Internal Security Division--a role specifically condemned by Supreme Court Justice Powell in the court's otherwise appalling decisions on press freedom last summer. We laud Popkin's courage in refusing to be a party to such shenanigans...
...this time of ever eroding freedoms, his reminder must strike home. We strongly urge students and faculty to contribute what they can to the Popkin Legal Defense Fund...