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In his political portraits, the author almost always settles for a snapshot, which would be sufficient for bit characters but doesn't satisfy in the case of a president. There's more to the man in the White House than a short memory and a tendency to oversimplify. Buchwald could...
Settles was cruising to work in his Triumph TR 7 on the morning of June 2 when he was stopped for speeding in Signal Hill (pop. 5,600), a city surrounded by Long Beach. According to Officer Jerry Lee Brown, Settles refused to cooperate. Two other policemen helped bring him...
Suicide, said the police. Murder, charged Settles' parents and black leaders. A rally on the Long Beach campus raised several thousand dollars to cover the Settleses' legal fees in a coroner's inquest and a $50 million suit against the police for wrongful death, negligence and violation of civil rights. When a demonstration in front of the station house was announced, the police boarded their windows and asked the county sheriff for protection...
Last month the jury at a Los Angeles County coroner's inquest ruled that Settles had died "at the hands of another, other than by accident." The key issues concerned the nature of Settles' injuries and whether he was killed by the mattress cover found around his neck...
Two examiners from the coroner's office testified that Settles' injuries were consistent with hanging. They were supported by a videotaped re-enactment of the hanging, using a mannequin. But one of them, Dr. Ronald Kornblum, acknowledged that a choke hold can cause death by asphyxiation and leave...