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Among the radicals who once fleetingly held center stage is Anthony Tankersley, a former Berkeley graduate student convicted of the Sept. 1, 1968, terrorist bombing of a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. high-tension tower. Tankersley, the son of a Navy officer, then fled to join the U.S. expatriate community in Canada. For 18 months, Tankersley and his wife Susan re-examined their political philosophy. As a result, last February he turned himself in to federal authorities as his own "statement against violence" and is now serving a one-to five-year sentence in a California prison. From his cell, Tankersley...
...Tony Tankersley was just beginning his graduate studies when he discovered political activism: "At first I mixed with a loose-knit group of Old Lefties and Black Panthers, but it did not take long for me to make the transition to the hip radical world-a world I could identify with." His first encounter with the New Left came during the Oakland Induction Center riots of 1967, when he "saw the brutality perpetrated against the demonstrators and thought it unjust. It was then that I began seeing myself as a violent revolutionary." From a follower to a leader...
...Attrition takes care of these things," says William H. Tankersley, CBS vice president for program practices (censorship). What he means is that roughly 25% of all shows fail each season, and that this year they will be replaced mainly by variety shows and situation comedies. "It's a cyclical thing anyway," he explains. "Every four or five years the action shows build up, but every four or five years the comedy shows build up too. Violence in programming had already got to the cyclical buildup point before the Kennedy assassination...
...campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television's growing maturity really clears the air. "We no longer shut our eyes or shut off the facts," savs CBS Censor William Tankersley. "The world is a madhouse. TV gives some voice to what is going on in the world...
...newspaperwoman." says Maryland McCormick. "Some people thought I would take a bigger hand in things, but I just don't want it." The Colonel did spot an heir way down on the family tree. In his will he asked that seven-year-old Mark McCormick Miller, Bazy Tankersley's son by her first marriage, be "given an opportunity to be employed on the staff of the Chicago Tribune [to] carry on the great newspaper tradition of Joseph Medill...