Volume 15, Number 4 · September 3, 1970
Becker Case Reopened!
By Murray Kempton
Against the Evidence: The Becker-Rosenthal Affair
by Andy Logan
McCall, 341 pp., $8.95
The President, standing beside the Attorney General, calls Charles Manson a murderer while the jury is barely settled in its chairs. Mr. Nixon's carelessness brings down upon him the wounded outcries of the newspapers, nearly all of which earlier made it unlikely that Manson could get a fair trial anywhere between here and the gate of St. Peter, having flooded their columns with allegations against him from a supposed accomplice throughout the spring, before the jury was even impaneled. Hypocrisy—I beg La Rochefoucauld's pardon—is much more often the outrage of vice at the sight of vice.
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