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...words might be those of a Bilbo, a Rankin or any number of rednecks. In fact, they are the considered opinion of the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, who thought that "all men are created equal," except for Negroes. In this painstaking book, Thomas Gossett, English professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, has traced racism to some surprising sources. Racism would not have endured so long, he suggests, if it had not had the wholehearted support of nearly all early American intellectuals. "The frontiersmen either looked forward with pleasure to the extinction of the Indians...
When Manhattan Attorney Mark Lane asked to sit in on the Warren Commission's hearings as attorney for Lee Harvey Oswald, Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin stiffly refused. Last week the commission changed its mind. It named Walter E. Craig, president of the American Bar Association, to defend Oswald's interests, with the right to examine "every facet of the case...
During one exchange, Rankin asked Marina if she had known at one time that Lee had "gone to live" with a certain woman. Marina frowned. "How do you mean, live with this woman?" she asked coldly. Rankin put in quickly: "As a tenant." That was different. "No," said Marina...
...nation's verdict on Oswald. Those with an investment in seeing Oswald proved guilty are strengthened by the present public certainty of his guilt. Already their influence is felt; in a six point outline of the committee's work, given by the committee's counsel, J. Lee Rankin, four points concerned Oswald, but none even touched upon the idea that other persons may have committed the crime...
Things were as genteel as could be when Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, was transferred to Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Miss., after three months in nearby Rankin County Jail. "Glad to see you," welcomed the jailer. "Mighty glad to be here," said Beckwith, comfortably puffing on a cigar and seemingly unconcerned that his trial has just been set for Jan. 27. But even Southern hospitality has to leave off somewhere. When he asked permission to bring his gun collection, his jailers politely refused. Back in Rankin County the sheriff was amazed...