Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week before it had been shown at the Harvard Square to an audience of law students, who proceeded to make Director Sidney J. Furie feel about as welcome as Judge Hoffman in the city room of the Old Mole . The film is loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case, which of course also touched off a popular TV series which every week asked the question, can a one-armed man find happiness in a two-fisted world...
...October. Within a week, government attorneys had subpoenas on the desks of local editors and station managers, and a special county grand jury followed suit. Last Decembers gun battle between police and Black Panthers set off another round. Lawyers preparing a defense for seven Panthers subsequently charged with attempted murder say they have served some 50 subpoenas to "virtually all media sources in Chicago." The subpoenas order, among other things, access to reporters' notebooks...
...this context, i.e., the conspiracy which so many of us feel exists unlawfully and systematically to murder the leadership of the Black Panthers and thus eliminate them as a "threat," that my comments to your representative were uttered. If and when there are contraventions of law by Black Panthers, or others, there are legal provisions for their prosecution and punishment. Certainly, my argument is not against the application of legal procedure. But justice cannot exist unless it is both dispensed and administered evenhandedly...
...Jock's hand reached back from the grave and caught his own killers." The words were those of the attorney for Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, slain insurgent candidate for the leadership of the United Mine Workers Union. They fairly characterized the capture of three suspects in the murder. Yablonski, 59, had spent the last few weeks of his life in steadily mounting terror. Fearing assassination, he began keeping a gun at his bedside, installed floodlights outside his secluded Clarksville, Pa., home, and kept a list of license-plate numbers of unfamiliar cars in the area...
...young man of 27, Dmitry Shostakovich treated the Soviet Union to a feast of sex, murder and dissonance in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (revised in 1962 and retitled Katerina Ismailovd). At its first performance in 1934, Joseph Stalin loathed every note of it. He and the Communist Party denounced Shostakovich for his bourgeois musical tastes and, ever since, the composer has been sliding in and out of party favor. Too talented and far too famous to be squelched, he produced symphonies, ballets, choruses, chamber music. He alternately soothed the ultraconservative ears of the commissars with "music...