Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formidable Percy Foreman when he set out to defend the assassin of Mar tin Luther King Jr. Foreman's way of doing that - to avoid having to argue be fore a jury against the damaging ev idence marshaled against James Earl Ray - was to make a deal with Prosecutor Phil M. Canale Jr. for a negotiated guilty plea. The result turned Ray's trial in Memphis into a formality that left unanswered questions of whether a conspiracy existed to murder King...
...Prosecutor: Didn't you know that it was an unfit word to use in front of children...
...into tuition fees by hitting the Chautauqua trail, lecturing widely on such subjects as "The High Mission of Women in the 20th Century" and "How to Get the Most Out of Life." After getting his law degree at the age of 25, he served briefly as an assistant county prosecutor before entering into private practice...
...verdict. After pumping the case for two years in public and six weeks in the courtroom, District Attorney Jim Garrison got less than an hour of the jury's time in deliberation before they unanimously acquitted Shaw of plotting to kill President Kennedy. A less obsessed prosecutor might have reasoned from those circumstances that the jury believed he had no case. Not Big Jim. Said he: "The jury verdict simply indicates that the American people don't want to hear the truth...
HUAC also has to compete with more muckrakers than ever. Its plans to investigate the riots in the ghettoes were preempted by the highly publized Kerner Report and the findings of two Senate groups. The Presidential commissioner has replaced the Congressional prosecutor in the Washington spotlight. Another factor in HUAC's eclipse was the Wallace campaign and growth of the American Independent Party. Presidential politics provided a more attractive, more visible expression of discontent that a HUAC committeeroom...