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...shot dead in the San Quentin prison yard last month (TIME, Sept. 6), his distraught mother charged that the escape attempt was actually "set up" and amounted to murder by prison authorities. Her accusation was dismissed out of hand by most, but it prompted an emotional piece by Tom Wicker, Washington-based columnist for the New York Times. "Many others," Wicker wrote, "mostly black perhaps, but not a few of them white, will not find it hard to agree with his mother...
...Wicker praised Jackson as "a talented writer, a sensitive man, a potential leader and political thinker of great persuasiveness." He lamented the "wanton destruction of humanity" by a system that had jailed Jackson for one year to life for a $70 robbery at age 19 and kept him in prison for nearly twelve years until his death. "For once," wrote Wicker, "this predominantly white society ought not passively to accept the usual assumption that authority is blameless and truthful, and those who defy it are fools or depraved, especially if black...
Senatorial Courtesy. Though Wicker did not specifically subscribe to the "set up" theory of Jackson's death, he found himself rebuked by an editorial in his own paper the next day. The Times mentioned no names, but condemned giving "currency to the vague, unsupported and unbelievable charge made by Jackson's mother." Added the editorial: "It is no contribution to the national good . . . to explain away acts of savagery as the inevitable reaction to social inequities...
Some private villa owners good-naturedly complied. Prince Bertil of Sweden, a democratic fellow who wears a beret while riding around Ste.-Maxime on a mini-motorcycle, willingly cut a passage through the wicker fence around his villa's beach. At Cabasson, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who could claim extraterritoriality for her beach by virtue of her title, readily admitted sunbathers and swimmers to her beach provided they were decently dressed and not too noisy...
...Chicago Today declared: "That's statesmanship." But Nixon reminded the Louisville Times of the girl who, "protesting she would never consent, consented. In his new economic plan he is doing what he said he did not want to do and would not do." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker described the role of Treasury Secretary lohn Connally in the policy switch as a "virtuoso performance" and foresaw "a remarkable Republican ticket next year, featuring one man who looks like Richard Nixon and another who sounds like Lyndon Johnson...