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...Director and former Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), who introduced Hirabayashi, began the evening with a personal story about growing up in Wyoming, when the government rapidly built the Heart Mountain internment camp outside his hometown to hold 11,500 people...
...They built shanties...that looked like box cars," Simpson said. "People were scared that the `Japs' would escape...
...been a case like this." Celebrated past recipients of the death penalty such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg or Caryl Chessman were neither rich nor powerful, and gained their status as a consequence of their trials, Cohen says. More recently, capital punishment was pre-emptively rejected in the O.J. Simpson case. But Capano had no legendary gridiron past, and a wholly unpleasant present. Although the scion of a wealthy real estate family and a mover among Delaware's elite, "at no point in the story did he present himself as an appealing human being," says Cohen. "People were outraged...
...Former Senator Alan K. Simpson, the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP), which sponsored the event, introduced Ford as a man "who showed tremendous courage in pardoning Richard Nixon...
...that not been done, this country would be in great turmoil," Simpson said...