Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon after the ad appeared, L. B. Sullivan, a Montgomery city commissioner, brought suit for $500,000 in damages. Sullivan's suit was followed by four more: one from Montgomery Mayor-Earl James, two from other Montgomery city commissioners, and one from John M. Patterson, then Alabama's Governor. Perhaps in recognition of his higher office, Patterson asked double damages...
...Times itself admitted that the copy did contain inaccuracies: police had not padlocked the student dining hall; Dr. King had been arrested only four times, not seven. In an atmosphere steam-heated by the race issue, Alabama juries decided that the Times ad was indeed libelous. Commissioner Sullivan and Mayor James were awarded every penny they asked for; the Times appealed the Sullivan judgment all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Robust Debate. Whatever merit Alabama courts had detected in Commissioner Sullivan's case was totally demolished. The First Amendment, said the Supreme Court, clearly spelled out "a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials." This commitment, the court has long held, binds the states through the 14th Amendment, which forbids them to abridge a person's liberty without "due process of law." Added the court: "The Times advertisement...
...GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A newspaperman in 1893 tries to find out why President Grover Cleveland has disappeared for several days; with Barry Sullivan and Leif Erickson...
...Johnson Administration continued to hint that it is seriously considering fundamental changes in the ground rules under which it has waged the war. The State Department announced the 'creation of a new interagency task force to reassess the whole deteriorating situation. It is headed by William H. Sullivan, 41, a special assistant to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman, and it will report directly to Secretary of State Dean Rusk...