Word: sams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sam Hall, a soap opera writer and a friend of Myhrum, calls Myhrum "a marvelous director" who maintained high professional standards in a field known for its sleaze...
...temperament of a tempestuous loner who traveled with a squadron of pals and protectors, who swung on and spat on the ladies and gents of the press and who declined to forswear certain companions--Vegas oddsmakers and knee breakers, sharply tailored gentlemen in New York and Chicago like Sam Giancana, with no discernible day jobs--in whom the law retained an inveterate interest...
...however, a case where local lawmen winked and looked the other way. Forrest County, named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general and patron saint of the K.K.K., charged 14 Klansmen with murder and arson. Five were convicted or pleaded guilty and received life sentences. But not Sam Bowers, the Klan's Imperial Wizard for Mississippi, whom prosecutors accused of ordering and planning the murder--and whom Klan experts describe as the most dangerous man ever to don a white hood...
...thanks to new evidence and a shift in the state's public attitudes and politics, prosecutors appear ready to do just that--perhaps in the next few weeks. "We're very close to a reprosecution," says Michael Moore, the Mississippi Attorney General. "We're very optimistic we can bring Sam Bowers to justice...
...voters today number more than 18,000 in Forrest County--about 30% of the total. The attacks by Bowers and other Klansmen on civil rights workers only served to accelerate their efforts to win full participation for blacks in public life. In that sense, whatever happens in court to Sam Bowers, he and his kind have already lost the great struggle of their lives. Vernon Dahmer...