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...conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble." Said Alabama's Governor John Patterson: "I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabble-rousers." Not everyone in Alabama was so complacent about the situation. The Birmingham News, which last year vigorously denounced the New York Times for saying that fear and hatred stalked the streets of Birmingham. now conceded that "fear and hatred...
...protect the Nashville bus riders, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy warned Alabama's Governor Patterson of U.S. concern with the case, considered sending in federal marshals, and dispatched Administrative Assistant John Seigenthaler to send back firsthand reports. Bobby Kennedy tried to get Patterson on the phone. But John Patterson, who loves to spout off about states' rights, was unwilling to take on the responsibility for maintaining law and order in his state. Patterson's office declared the Governor unavailable to the U.S. Attorney General. Later, at Bobby's urging. President Kennedy himself tried to call Patterson...
Last week Newsday had a scoop of sorts in President Kennedy's reply. Newsday Editor and Publisher Alicia Patterson, who learned newspapering at the knee of her father, the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News (see below), took for granted that she would receive the courtesy of an answer. After all, she had supported Kennedy for president, while Alicia's husband, Harry Guggenheim, president of Newsday, voted for Nixon...
...last five years after I die." Captain Joseph Medill Patterson may have been only half joking when he predicted the end of the New York Daily News, the big and boisterous tabloid that he ran as a one-man show from the day he helped found it* in 1919 until his death in 1946. But his survivors on the paper knew better than to fiddle with the captain's successful formula. "Those who are left behind," said the News in an obitu ary editorial, "will do their best to keep this page and the paper what he would want...
Frailty & Indiscretion. Fifteen years after the captain's death, the News is almost as big as ever, with 1,980,338 daily circulation (it peaked at 2,400,000 in 1947) and 3,244,667 on Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH...