Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later, a reporter asked Bailey if he would supervise a lie detector test for Cleveland Doctor Sam Sheppard, who had already been convicted of murdering his wife. Bailey agreed. To get permission for the test, Bailey mounted what became the first of his now familiar pretrial publicity campaigns. Appearing on a TV talk show, he used a lie detector to uncover the most burning secret of the day: that Johnny Carson would be Jack Paar's replacement on nighttime TV. The tactic did more for his ego than his client. The ploy hardened official resistance, and a state court...
...year and censured by the Massachusetts Bar. He also overextended himself, writing?and vigorously promoting?two bestsellers, hosting a TV interview show, and serving as nominal publisher of Gallery, a copy-kitten rip-off of Playboy. He even made plans to play himself in a movie, The Sam Sheppard Story. Suddenly, things began to sour. The movie never got off the ground, the TV show was canceled and he left Gallery. His helicopter company was slow to lift off (it only recently began to make money), and an airport he bought near his home was on its way to losing...
...last year had eleven agents clandestinely collecting intelligence overseas while posing as journalists for U.S. and foreign news organizations. A somewhat similar disclosure was made by former ABC Correspondent Sam Jaffe, who has admitted that he reported regularly to the FBI while covering the United Nations in the late 1950s and Moscow in 1961-65. He claimed to have been told that the CIA once drew up a list of 40 to 200 journalists who had cooperated with the agency. The claim was denied by the CIA, House and Senate investigators, and two prominent journalists named by Jaffe: Anchormen John...
When her sometime friendship with President John Kennedy and Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana became public knowledge last month, turned up by the Senate investigation of the CIA, Judith Campbell Exner seemed sure of one thing. Appearing at a San Diego press conference, Exner, 42, assured reporters that she had no interest in profiting by telling tales out of the White House. She has apparently changed her mind. Last week New York Literary Agent Scott Meredith announced that Exner had agreed to write an autobiography and provide details of her relationship with J.F.K. Her asking price for the still unwritten book...
After Gary Schmidt, Steve Brown, Sam Butler and Peters (who ran a 49.9 second anchor leg) ran past the Huskies in the relay in a 3:26.5 clocking, all eyes turned to the high jump...