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...about Ludovic Kennedy, a broadcaster and writer of high seriousness, who died Oct. 18 at 89. A Briton of aristocratic lineage, Kennedy was an advocate of foxhunting and showed something of that merciless instinct in his investigative journalism, which he devoted to exposing miscarriages of justice. His book 10 Rillington Place inspired the posthumous pardon of Timothy Evans, a young Englishman wrongly executed for murder in 1950, and hastened Britain's abolition of the death penalty. The Airman and the Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration of the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, failed to achieve a similar...
...assessments of the relative immorality of sex and violence. Last week the Film Commission of the National Council of Churches and the Catholic Office for Motion Pictures announced withdrawal of their backing because they found the ratings unreliable. They cited several films, including the recently released 10 Rillington Place-a clinical examination of the career of a mass murderer-that had been rated GP (general admission, parental guidance advised). Other examples of the raters...
...hangman's memoirs brightened the Sabbath with intimate glimpses of the killers about to die ("He blinked bewilderedly, screwing up his eyes") and craftsmanlike pride in his humane efficiency ("I hanged John Reginald Christie, the Monster of Rillington Place, in less time than it took the ash to fall off a cigar I had left half-smoked in my room at Pentonville"). After an execution (fee: $42), Pierrepoint would go back to his cigar and his regular job (pubkeeper...
...once for hitting his landlady over the head with a cricket bat. A kindly Roman Catholic priest befriended him, tried to reunite him and his wife, but Christie stole the priest's car and went to jail again. After that the Christies went to live at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, a shabby London district. In World War II, Christie joined the Police War Reserve and earned two commendations for "efficient detection in crime.'' He took up photography, kept scores of pictures of himself, and obscene shots of pretty girls. He was known as a "polite little...
London's Notting Hill is a down-at-heels section of shabby streets and seedy tenements close by fashionable Kensington. In one of its dead-end streets sits a mouldering Georgian house that holds a distinction all its own. Three years ago No. 10 Rillington Place became known as "The Murder House." Beryl Evans and her 14-month-old daughter were cruelly strangled there; her husband, Tim Evans, went to the gallows for the crime. Last week, with a decisiveness that sent shivers of fascinated horror down the spine of London, No. 10 Rillington Place renewed its lease...
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