Word: statement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that could reach the tree people. Feeling secure with his 100 cops, Erwin decided it was time to start. He sent the cops in with orders to "arrest everybody you need to; once the trees are cut down, there won't be anything to protest." (This is an interesting statement all by itself- there are all sorts of things you can do with it: "Go ahead and kill all the Vietnamese; then there won't be anything to protest...
...waning days of LBJ. The deal may actually be legitimate, but everybody has doubts about it. Erwin isn't the sort to sponsor a Geriatrics Center out of sheer goodness: (The center has never been built, and the land is still in his possession.) Anyway, Erwin's last statement to the Daily Texan was: "I'm not going to talk...
James W. Paradise, a 16-year-old ninth-grade dropout, testified that the Cambridge police had forced him to sign a false statement that he had witnessed the Weathermen planning and executing the shooting. "Four policemen had me against a wall, slapping me around. What else could I do?" Paradise said...
Paradise testified that Richard A. Gargiulo, assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, "prepared the statement, and I forcibly put my name to it." The Cambridge police offered him a $10 bribe to testify against the Weathermen, Paradise said...
...police picked up Paradise on November 17 as a runaway. That night, after Paradise signed the allegedly false statement, they arrested 23 Weathermen in three separate raids on houses in Cambridge...