Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judge Frank J. Murray found the offer unsatisfactory, and Popkin was handcuffed and removed to a detention cell in the Federal building to await placement in the Charles Street Jail. His only reading material there, he said later, was an old Life magazine article about Daniel Ellsberg...
...Popkin experienced first hand the irony of the situation, his attorneys held a hearing in chambers with Judge Bailey Aldrich of the First Circuit Court of Appeals and obtained a stay of sentence...
...Popkin, it was back to the investigative merry-go-round. He appeared before the grand jury once again on March 27, purging himself of his previous contempt by answering the three questions. At the same time, however, he refused to answer nine others. And, once again, the government moved to have him found in contempt...
Despite an opening statement by Popkin testifying that he had seen portions of the Pentagon Papers only after their publication in The New York Times and that he was not aware of any plans for publication or distribution, the grand jury repeatedly asked him about his involvement in both of these matters...
...Popkin's questions on the relevance of the line of inquiry were repeatedly rebuffed: "The grand jury does not answer questions...