Word: wilkerson
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Rape, Murder & Life. Typical is the recent case of Marine Sergeant Charles Wilkerson. While on patrol, he disappeared into the bushes with a suspected V.C. prisoner. Two shots were heard; Wilkerson returned alone. Hours later, another Marine patrol came across the body of the prisoner, his hands still tied behind his back. Within two months, Wilkerson was before a general court-martial, charged with murder. He admitted the shooting, but claimed he had been ordered to do it. Testified Wilker son: "The lieutenant said: 'Pull out of the column and kill him.' " One other member of the patrol...
...lieutenant, David Yorck, was tried separately and found innocent. Wilkerson was found guilty and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and life imprisonment. Three weeks ago, a reviewing authority reduced the jail sentence to 30 years, and with the help of civilian attorney Matthew H. Brandenburg, Wilkerson will appeal even that sentence. Similarly, in March, four Air Cavalry troopers, convicted of participating in the rape-murder of a 20-year-old Vietnamese farm girl during a reconnaissance patrol, were all dishonorably discharged and given sentences ranging from eight years to life, according to their degree of involvement in the crime. Last...
...members of the court-martial have usually seen combat themselves, rarely sympathize with a man who uses his weapon too readily. Nor do they often heed pleas-like Wilkerson's-that "I was just following orders." The Uniform Code of Military Justice, mindful of the Nürnberg trials, clearly states that a subordinate is not justified in following an order if it "is such that a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know it to be illegal." Moreover, every U.S. serviceman arriving in Viet Nam is given a printed card entitled "The Enemy in Your Hands...
...WYOMING 38% of the vote GOVERNOR Hathaway (R) (winner) 18,000 Wilkerson (D) 15,000 U.S. SENATOR Hansen (R) (winning) Roncalio...
Teen Challenge Centers have sprung up in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Toronto, and Wilkerson has a work farm for male addicts in Pennsylvania and a home for females in Rhinebeck, N.Y. His board of directors includes Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, Combined Insurance Co. of America President W. Clement Stone. Wilkerson has his critics, among them some of the most eminent narcotics specialists in the U.S. "Sure, he'll cure a few who are motivated by a religious fervor," says Dr. Robert Baird of New York's Haven Clinic. "But what...