Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respite from court, defense lawyers began constructing their case for the 24-year-old Jordanian immigrant. However, when a Pasadena, Calif., school official began testifying for the defense that Sirhan's IQ was 89 (a score of 90-110 is the norm), their client exploded again. While Judge Walker hastily sequestered the jury, Sirhan addressed the bench. "I, at this time, sir," he declared, "wish to withdraw my original plea of not guilty and submit the plea of guilty on all counts...
...Walker: Do I understand that you want to plead guilty to murder in the first degree...
...Walker: What do you want to do about the penalty...
Repudiating his lawyers and demanding that they be fired, Sirhan spoke in quavering tones: "I killed Robert Kennedy willfully, premeditatively, with 20 years of malice aforethought." "Well," snapped Walker, "the evidence has to be proved here in court...
...stickiest problems arose when the Government-sponsored Walker Report on the violence in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention repeated the obscenities shouted at Chicago police. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, decided at first to run the report without deleting the offensive words. "But when the story came up from the composing room and we saw all those words in cold print for the first time, we chickened out," he says. "It's one thing to hear it in conversation, another to see it in the paper. We used dashes...