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"At morning exercise, a cockney occupant told me cheerfully, They don't often let their victim go too early, mate.' But at 10 o'clock I was taken before the chubby commandant, who blandly asked if I had had a good night. Then he told me that...
Died. Pierre Fresnay, 77, cinemactor and onetime member of the Comédie Française of heart disease; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Hailed at his death as the greatest French actor of his generation, Fresnay starred in some 70 films. His most renowned role, in Jean Renoir'...
General Robert E. Cushman Jr., commandant of the Marine Corps, told the court how Ehrlichman had phoned him several times about a White House operation. Ehrlichman first asked Cushman, who was then serving as deputy director of the CIA, to give some assistance to E. Howard Hunt, one of the...
The Andersonville Trial. A riveting dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the Confederate POW camp where 13,000 Union soldiers died during the Civil War. This production, which won an Emmy in 1970, was the first triumph of NET's accomplished Hollywood Television Theater...
Correspondent Rauch, who was allowed to inspect the interior of the stadium last week, found no signs of any mass-execution sites. Some prisoners were lounging in the bleachers. But, Rauch noted, "there was not more than one-tenth of the people we had been told were in the stadium...