Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ferry service, the telephone operator routinely switches the call to the Edgartown police department, which asks if any injury is involved in the request. The question then might be: What do you tell the police operator when you think a woman may have drowned and you have neglected to report...
When asked whether, on the night of the accident, Kennedy seemed more interested in his political future than in what happened to Mary Jo Kopechne, 38% agreed. By an overwhelming 77% to 14%, respondents said that Kennedy was wrong not to report the accident immediately...
...case of the EC-121, the difficulty was as much one of command as communications. Flying under the operational control of the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ-1), the Navy plane was more on its own than it could have realized. According to the Pike report, VQ-1 "lost all effective operational control over the aircraft. Army, Air Force and Navy units monitoring the flight of the EC-121 appeared to assume operational control of the aircraft -and if they did not, no one had operational control." The monitoring units detected the aircraft threatening...
...tend to look to the capital for guidance in crises. This Washington reflex is not discouraged by Government officials. They are rightfully concerned with keeping tight rein on the military. As President Kennedy once said: "I don't want some sergeant starting World War III." Yet the Pike report demonstrates that a better balance must be found if local commanders are not to be paralyzed in cases of limited threats. The report urges that the Administration seek -"on an emergency basis"-new methods to get the several echelons of command to talk and listen to each other...
...state cops played an important but unanticipated role in the first major break in the case. State Police Corporal David Leik returned from a vacation to find his house "disturbed." Leik's nephew, John Norman Collins, 23, had a key to the house. Going on Leik's report and other evidence, police arrested Collins, an Eastern Michigan senior, and charged him with the first-degree murder of Karen Sue Beineman. At week's end police were investigating to see if Collins, a student in good standing, could be tied to any of the other murders...