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DIED. C. VANN WOODWARD, 91, Pulitzer-prizewinning historian and perceptive chronicler of the post-Civil War South; in Hamden, Conn. He was perhaps best known for The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), which argued that segregation in the South was a fairly recent phenomenon and thus could be undone...
...Innocence Project is the brainchild of New York lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Both gained fame as part of O.J. Simpson's legal "dream team," and Scheck returned to the media spotlight as the defense attorney for British au pair Louise Woodward. But the Innocence Project dates back to an earlier time, when Scheck and Neufeld were overworked and underpaid Legal Aid lawyers in the South Bronx. Like most defense lawyers, they believed the system made mistakes. And earlier than most, they realized that the hot new technology of DNA testing could revolutionize criminal defense by providing scientific proof...
...during this period that Gergen was nicknamed "the Sieve" for his willingness to leak details to the press. Gergen later acknowledged that he was a source for the account written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the days preceding Nixon's resignation...
ARRESTED. SUSAN and GARY WOODWARD, parents of nanny Louise Woodward, who was convicted of killing a baby in her care; for questioning related to misuse of their daughter's defense fund; in Cheshire, England. The couple, now separated, were released and will meet with prosecutors on July...
DIED. WILLIAM WOODWARD III, 54, member of a wealthy family best known for its morbid history; after plunging 14 stories from his apartment; in New York City. In 1955 his mother, a showgirl turned society maven, accidentally shot his father to death at their Long Island estate. In 1975, as Truman Capote was to publish a fictionalized account of Woodward Jr.'s death, she killed herself...