Word: willwerth
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...Senior writer Richard Lacayo, contributor Lance Morrow and correspondents White, Elaine Lafferty and James Willwerth shared the general-news prize for the Oct. 9, 1995, cover story, "O.J. and Race: Will the Verdict Split America?," which assessed the escalating racial rhetoric surrounding the Simpson trial...
...book in question, which arrived in stores last week, is American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth, a TIME correspondent who covered the trial. Schiller is a colorful operator whose exploits include photographing Marilyn Monroe in the nude and providing Norman Mailer with the reporting about Gary Gilmore for The Executioner's Song. Schiller was the one who created and sold Simpson's sanctimonious, self-serving best seller, I Want to Tell You, and thereby raised money to pay Simpson's lawyers. With American Tragedy, he has produced quite a different book, a serious effort that describes the conduct...
...redid Simpson's home before the jury visit, taking down photographs of white women and putting up pictures of black women, including Norman Rockwell's famous painting of a black girl being escorted to school by federal marshals. Cochran told Time that this anecdote is "an absolute lie." But Willwerth says they had it from three different sources, and Schiller saw the changes himself...
Whether or not they are disciplined, Douglas and Chapman still may have acted improperly. Asked about how he will deal with them, Cochran says, "That's a tough, tough question." He also insists, "I never talked to Schiller," though Schiller contends he was interviewed off the record. According to Willwerth, Cochran called Schiller often, stood by during several of the interviews with Douglas, and even had aides call to ask for information for his own book. Cochran denies...
Inside the courtroom, jury selection dragged on, with 102 people in the pool so far. Outside, the cacophony from the first trial continued. A new book, American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, by Lawrence Schiller and TIME correspondent James Willwerth, quotes Robert Kardashian, the former Simpson confidant, as saying he now has doubts about Simpson's innocence. "What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege," defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran charged, as he was busy promoting his own memoirs...