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Most of the morning was taken up by the last five prosecution witnesses. They were all police officers who detailed the organization and execution of the raid and booking procedure...
Cambridge police captain Chester E. Hallice, organizer of the raid, continued his testimony from Monday. He said that municipal and Metropolitan District, police arrived at Memorial Hall at 4 a.m. Thursday and were given instructions "to remove certain individuals from University Hall who had gained entrance by force and violence." They were instructed to cordon off an area around University Hall to give the State Police "clear sailing" and to allow anyone to leave the area, but no one to enter...
Kassler said the prosecution case on the permeability of the perimeter rested on the testimony of two witnesses: Hallice, who was inside the building throughout most of the raid, and Desmond, who admitted he saw what was happening at only one of the four doors...
Barry Hillenbrand, a Time-Life reporter, testified that during the raid he saw "about a dozen" people apprehended and taken into custody outside the building...
...production of the play has some interesting points, too. Film is used, but not to show actions that are important psychologically, Shea points out. Rather, the film sequences show major events in the lives of the characters that they then have to deal with. Pushkin watches the bloody raid on the Decembrist Revolutionists by forces of the Czar on film, and Lermontov watches the death of Pushkin on film. Later, the Czar sees part of Lermontov's novel, which he terms "self-indulgent," on the screen...