Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifty-five YD's will spend April 5-7 talking to Supreme Court Justices Earl warren, William O. Douglas, and Hugo Black, Senators Clinton P. Anderson (D.N.M.), Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), and Joseph Tydings (D-Md.), and Attorney General DeB. Katzenbach...
...Johnson himself seemed to sense the moment as he studied the faces that gazed at him. In the visitors' gallery were Lady Bird, Lynda (Luci stayed home to study), and their guest J. Edgar Hoover; on the House floor were scores of former colleagues, the Cabinet, Chief Justice Warren and four Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. Other faces were conspicuous for their absence. The entire congressional delegations of Mississippi and Virginia and a host of fellow Southerners had deliberately stayed away...
Actually, Norman Thomas got his first introduction to politics at the unlikely knee of Warren Gamaliel Harding, for whose newspaper he worked as a boy in Marion, Ohio. It wasn't long before Thomas fled to the fringe of the political spectrum of Harding's day; and at eighty years of age--wise and somewhat weary--he has seen the political consensus meet him halfway. In the process he has both learned and taught as much as one man can ever hope...
This series of covers devoted to searching inquiries into the many aspects of the civil rights crisis-as seen from the North, the South and the middle-has included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
...assassinated, it came as a considerable surprise to most Americans that killing a U.S. President is not a federal crime. It was because of this that Lee Harvey Oswald was handed into the clumsy clutches of the Dallas police force, which had legal jurisdiction, with disastrous results. The Warren Commission was appalled by the legal situation, wrote in its report: "It is anomalous that Congress has legislated in other ways touching upon the safety of the Chief Executive or other Federal officers without making an attack on the President a crime...