Word: radioman
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...prosecution witnesses swore that they saw Mitchell standing at the ditch, and that they heard rifle fire. But neither could swear that they saw Mitchell shoot anyone. The third, Radioman Charles Sledge, said he was "positive" he saw Mitchell firing at the civilians. Mitchell's civilian defense attorney, Ossie B. Brown, discredited Sledge's account, quoting testimony Sledge gave to Army investigators: "I believe it was Sgt. Mitchell firing into the ditch." The testimony of a prosecution witness, Dennis Conti, was weakened when fellow Army witnesses swore that they had heard Conti declare: "He [Mitchell] tried...
Discrepancies. It may be that Swan acted to save a weak case. His lead-off witness, former Radioman Charles Sledge, was the most damaging to Mitchell. Only Sledge, 23, black and a luggage-factory worker from Sardis, Miss., would say that he "positively" saw Mitchell shoot a group of Vietnamese women, children and old men cowering in a ditch. Sledge said that he recalled seeing Mitchell confer with Lieut. William Calley Jr. at the edge of the ditch before the two opened fire on the villagers from about five or six feet away. "They were falling and screaming," he testified...
...police were puzzled. If Aimee had wandered for hours in the desert, how come her shoes were hardly scuffed? Other questions arose. Why had the radioman at the temple disappeared at almost the same time Aimee had? And who was that thick-ankled woman who had spent ten days with him in a vine-covered cottage at Carmel? The scandal broke in six-inch headlines, and Aimee, her mother and the radioman were held for trial on conspiracy charges; but after eight months of priceless worldwide publicity, "a certain person of influence" was bought off for $6,000, according...
...whom was then standing with a gun at the operator's head. What the mutineers intended, the operator did not know. A later message said that the pair "stated from the beginning that if the Cambodian government would not seize the vessel, they would scuttle it." The radioman gave the names of the hijackers: Clyde W. McKay, 25, of Escondido, Calif., and Alvin L. Glatkowski, 20, of Long Beach, Calif...
...Psychic Bruises. Radioman Second Class Lee Roy Hayes, a gaunt 26-year-old, admitted that "I was not beat as bad as many." Nevertheless, X rays taken in San Diego showed that his jaw had been broken. One of the chief tormentors was a North Korean colonel nicknamed "The Bear," who worked over Hayes and the rest of the crew. "One day they treat you nice, and they are your big brothers," Hayes explained. "The next day, for no reason, it would be the opposite. Everyone was kept in terror, waiting to be beat. That was the worst part-there...