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Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government and an expert in Vietnamese affairs, was called before a Boston grand jury empanelled to investigate crime surrounding the Pentagon Papers case. Prier to coming to Harvard, Popkin had worked with Daniel Ellsberg '52, the self-acknowledged distributor of the Papers...
When called upon by the jury to testify on his knowledge of the leak of the Papers, Popkin refused, saying the information was gathered "in his capacity as a scholar, author and teacher," and that disclosure would violate the confidentiality of his sources in-his-research...
...case seesawed back and forth in the courts all last year, and seemed far from a conclusion in August. At times it looked as though Popkin would face immanent imprisonment: at others, the government appeared to be retreating at full speed. The case is likely to drag on well into the coming year.SAMUEL L. POPKIN...
Homans said that the defense will apply to the Supreme Court for a hearing on Popkin's case before August 4. Supreme Court rules require that Popkin file for a hearing within 90 days of the close of Caldwell's case...
...Popkin's lawyer William P. Homans '41, said that the Caldwell decision was not favorable to Popkin's case, but that the outlook for Tuesday's hearing is still unclear. He said that one problem is the limited amount of time given the defense to prepare its brief. The Court of Appeals notified him of the hearing date Wednesday night...