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Subpoenaed again on January 18, Popkin asked for a clarification by the court on whether prior rulings applied to the new order to appear, and simultaneously sought a protective order. The court refused to hear the motions...
...back to the grand jury room on the 11th floor of the dank federal building in Boston's Post Office Square, where Popkin appeared before the jury once again, but refused to answer three of its questions. At that point, a few doors down the hall, the government decided to move for the first time to have Popkin found in contempt of court...
...response to that action, the Harvard Faculty Council passed unanimously on January 19 the first public statement of support for Popkin's position to be issued by any official body of the University...
There the matter stood for two months until, on March 21, the court found Popkin in contempt and, at the same time, provided the clarification that he had earlier requested. Popkin offered in court to answer the three specific questions the grand jury had posed in the January hearing, but refused to answer further inquiries...
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...