Word: warrens
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Iowa's Governor Hughes rather glumly assured reporters that the meeting had been "very open and very frank" and that "we should and will meet in the future with more frequency." But no one seemed particularly repentant nor completely satisfied. Indeed, Missouri's Warren Hearnes, who had wondered publicly whether L.B.J. should run again, barked to reporters that he had no intention of taking back anything he had said about the President. Snapped he: "I don't care about statistics. I don't care about meetings. I just know people...
...hours a day for the next 21 months, Manchester gathered material, accumulating 45 volumes of tapes, notes and documents. From Cape Cod to Dallas, he conducted 1,000 interviews with 500 people. He spent a day in Gettysburg with Dwight Eisenhower, 31 hours over lunch with Chief Justice Earl Warren. In Dallas, he retraced on foot the route of Kennedy's motorcade. A meticulous reporter, he scoured hungrily for the small details that help illuminate the larger ones: how a flock of pigeons took wing from the roof of the Texas School Book Depository when Lee Harvey Oswald fired...
Immune Plant. To snare Hoffa, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Justice Department deliberately used spy tactics to get evidence, for which, Chief Justice Earl Warren sadly said, "the Government paid an enormous price." Soon after Hoffa went on trial in Nash ville in 1962 for accepting a bribe from trucking operators, the Government curtly told the judge that he was trying to bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time...
...that, Warren approved the use of informers in two related cases. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr. was appealing his own conviction (3½ years) for trying to slip $10,000 to one of Hoffa's Chattanooga jurors. In Osborn's case, the informer was Policeman Robert Vick, who had originally been hired by Osborn to investigate Hoffa's Nashville jurors, and who was later asked by Osborn to help bribe a prospective juror. By then, Vick had switched sides, and with approval of two judges, the feds had armed him with a tape recorder into which...
...upholding Osborn's conviction, the court ruled that Vick's tape was completely valid evidence under the Fourth Amendment standard of judicially approved search and seizure. Warren agreed: "I see nothing wrong with the Government thus verifying the truthfulness of the informer and protecting his credibility." Moreover, Warren himself wrote the majority opinion in a third case approving the tactics of a U.S. narcotics agent, who phoned Boston Marijuana Peddler Duke Lee Lewis at home, called himself "Jimmy the Polack" and arranged for Lewis to sell him eleven "bags" (71.5 grams) for $100. Although the Fourth Amendment shields...