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...June 1962, Knickerbocker News Reporter Edward Swietnicki wrote a front-page story about a Negro post-office clerk who had been arrested for disorderly conduct and been treated at a hospital for multiple head bruises and other injuries. The clerk claimed police had beaten him at the station. The grand jury opened an investigation, but it soon became apparent that the machine-controlled, overwhelmingly Democratic panel was interested only in investigating Reporter Swietnicki. Questioned for hours on end by District Attorney John Garry II, Swietnicki said at one point that he had discussed his story beforehand with his managing editor...
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