Word: reardon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, the report represents an attempt to live with two constitutional rights: free press and fair trial. "We agreed in Committee that we should not be a party to any witch hunt," said Paul C. Reardon '32, Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and chairman of the Committee. "We were constituted rather to bring as detached and impartial a view as possible to what we were doing. We were considering the delicate balance between two ancient rights and we felt we should maintain a pure judicial approach to the accommodation between them...
Under Reporter David L. Shapiro, a professor at the Law School, the research staff, composed entirely of Harvard Law students, began finding out all there was to know about free press-fair trial conflict. "The subject has never been more thoroughly studied at any other time," Reardon attested...
...placed not on the media themselves, but rather on an attorney or public official who made an ill-timed public statement of alleged fact." This conclusion served as a basis for the tone of the Committee's final report. "Our report does not bear heavily on the press," chairman Reardon maintains, "but is mainly directed to the bench, bar, and law enforcement agencies. When we began our investigation, the press rightly raised the question 'Why don't they clean their own house?' This report does, I suggest, just that...
...sense of individual responsibility to an amorphous "public" pervades the Committee's entire report. Paul C. Reardon was the perfect man to direct such an undertaking. A former Justice of the state Superior Court, he stands above Massachusetts politics as a dedicated public servant, almost a modern philosopher-king...
...sense of responsibility so evident in the Report has been a point of contention for Justice Reardon since his college years. As the senior class orator in June, 1932, he warned his classmates in Sanders Theatre: "The existence of democracy is predicated in the interest of the citizen in his government. The last decade has witnessed the spectacle of a people intent on self-gain. That an apathy, a lack of interest and knowledge, a shirking of the plain duty to democracy on the part of the better educated class has been one cause, there is little doubt...