Word: shapiros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Another 20 cities were studied but not personally visited. They were selected at random from cities of over 100,000 people. Reporter Shapiro and the full-time assistant subscribed to each city's leading newspaper for one month and mailed questionnaires to the same groups that were interviewed in the three intensively-studied cities. Answers to the questionnaires showed that most newspapers today have a free hand in reporting criminal proceedings...
Throughout the year of research, Shapiro found that "responsibility for the threat to a fair trial could be 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...
Reardon's partner in directing the investigation was another man of public dedication. David Shapiro, graduate of Harvard Law School and a former clerk for Justice John Harlan, left private practice after five years "because I felt there just wasn't any challenge left in it." As Committee Reporter, he acted as liaison between the formal committee and the research staff. During the period of intensive research from December 1964 to October 1965, he sent out periodic communications to the Committee members, keeping them up to date. "We would send out changes [in the conclusions] and they would send...
...lawyers have just produced the only remedy: a private bill enacted by Congress and signed by the President. The bill awards Mrs. Shapiro $120,000-and applies only to her. In similar circumstances, another tourist will have to repeat the whole process...