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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater bragged that he would turn Willie Horton, a Black convicted murderer who raped a woman during a furlough from a Massachusetts prison, into "a household name." Horton's dark, sinister face now appears in pro-Bush leaflets and television advertisements in an effort to stir up the ugliest and basest fear of whites--a Black man raping a white woman...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: The Presidential Campaign in Black and White | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

Bush heatedly denied that his attacks on Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough program had racist overtones for citing the case of Willie Horton Jr., who is Black. Horton, a convicted murderer, brutalized a Maryland couple after escaping, but Bush said his commercial "didn't have any reference to his race and no picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke Says His Campaign's Still Alive | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...said Dukakis countered with an ad showing a picture of a Hispanic prisoner who had escaped from a federal prison program and committed crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke Says His Campaign's Still Alive | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Washburn had already suffered so much. He had lost responsible posts at two respected schools. He had seen his family's good name soiled. So the court naturally determined that a man in Washburn's position should be sentenced to prison for the rape of a child--and that the sentence should be suspended...

Author: By Robert Q. Mcmanus, | Title: When Rapists Go Free | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...York by next week and would plead not guilty and vigorously contest the charges. Tigue said the Marcoses were "deeply disappointed at President Reagan's failure to prevent this treatment of a long-standing ally." The main count carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Charging the Unindicted Guest | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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