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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 26, 1969

Page

6

Jury Questions Signal Sirhan Defense Strategy

More than 60 prospective jurors have been asked about psychiatry psychology and tools like lie detectors to test Sirhan Bishara Sirhan's mental state. Prosecutor contrasts these sciences with palmistry and numerology while Sirhan sits with his defense team awaiting verdicts that could affect his life.

Sirhan Grant Cooper Sirhan Bishara Sirhan Robert F. Kennedy New York David Fitts Fitts

Jury Deadlock Endes Bowers Trial in Dahmer Fire Killing

In Hattiesburg Mississippi a second mistrial is declared as jurors fail to convict former Ku Klux Klan leader Samuel H Bowers for the Dahmer firebomb murder of Vernon Dahmer. Key witness Billy Roy Pitts linked Bowers to the plan while asserting a racial motive.

Hattiesburg, Miss UPI Mississippi Ku Klux Klan Samuel H. Bowers Vernon Dahmer Bowers Dahmer Imperial Wizard White Knights FBI Laurel Billy Roy Pitts Pitts

Would-Be Killer Sentenced in Car Fire Murder Attempt

Billy Ray Carmack, 27, began serving a two to 14 year term after pleading guilty to attempted murder in a plan that included setting a car on fire and pushing it off a cliff. Judge George Phillips Jr. also ordered psychiatric care. Mrs. Carmack had filed for annulment or divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty.

Oakland UPI Billy Ray Carmack Superior Court George Phillips Jr San Leandro Phillips Carmack Vacaville Superior

Rebuked theologian heads to Cambridge for teaching post

London Dr. John Robinson, controversial author of Honest to God, resigns as Anglican suffragan bishop of Woolwich after a rebuke from the Archbishop of Canterbury and will join Cambridge University in the fall to teach theology.

London John Robinson Woolwich Cambridge University Canterbury

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