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...last week Buckley's ever-present smile slid from his face. He was in jail, convicted of having helped to kidnap a witness in an effort to create an alibi for Defendant Bowers in the fire-bomb case...
Auto Persuasion. There was little Buckley could do to rebut the testimony of the victim, Jack Watkins, and one of Buckley's fellow kidnapers who cooperated with the prosecution. Watkins had been picked out apparently because as an ex-con he seemed more open to coercion. This is how the prosecution told the story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When...
When Watkins still refused to co operate, Buckley decided to let him go on the theory that "he's an ex-convict; he won't say anything." Buckley was wrong. Watkins went straight to the police and brought kidnap charges. The trial took just two days; the jury just two hours...
...Buckley is now awaiting a sanity hearing. He will almost certainly never defend a Klansman or anyone else again. If he is found insane, that means at least temporary disbarment. If sane, he will probably get a ten-year rap for the kidnaping, which means permanent disbarment. Moreover, if he manages to get his conviction reversed, Pascagoula District Attorney Donald Cumbest fully intends to bring as many other charges against Buckley as he can find. First on the list: an alleged attempt by Buckley to fix the jury that eventually found him guilty. Says the angry Cumbest: "These people have...
...there often is no message. Havens, 27, a Brooklyn-born Negro who performs with compelling fervor, exemplifies the tendency of today's singers to avoid urging anything on the listener, but to try to embody an emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...