Word: popkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popkin were an Italian-American trucker whom the authorities believed to have useful information about the operation of the Mafia, he might very well be summoned before a grand jury. He might also refuse to answer, might be sentenced to jail for contempt, and the public might be generally delighted at the spectacle of a criminal brought to justice. But Sam Popkin, 30, is not a Mafioso. He is a lecturer on government at Harvard, a recognized expert on Vietnamese village life, and the Government seems to believe he knows something useful to the prosecution of the Pentagon papers case...
...Popkin denied that he had martyred himself for a cuase, saying that he had just been in a certain position at a certain time and felt that the had to adhere to his ethical principles...
...week. Popkin was vacationing in the Virgin Islands with his wife, Susan Shirk...
Despite his astonishment at being released six weeks early, Popkin was hardly at a loss for words. Grand juries, he told a group of reporters shortly after his release, "have become the government's tool for gathering intelligence." He further warned that "today we may be faced with as great a threat from the use of grand juries as was ever posed by Joe McCarthy...
...Popkin also cautioned that if scholars and journalists cannot talk confidentially with officials, "the First Amendment will protect nothing more than polemics and official handouts...