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*** Paaeifc *** Presidio 27 Court-; arti«! (Cont'd.) The trial, of course on and is inmany ways dep (The only way I can descr chael Gentile in dress gr a courtroom after three s weeks is by comparing him gar in a business suit, that much at home. The U States Army may not know fir,ht guerillas in jungle they're past asters at b courage in a labyrinth of and enaless lours of shee , drags ressing. ibe Mi- eens in olid to a cou- he looks nited how to s, but uryinq legaiese r tedium.) On the other hand, a lot is getting out that hasn't in the ear lier versions of this play. It is ,of course, pure drama, and largely unrelated to the real-life people who were there on October 14, and now sit, slouch and smoke together before us in the docket. To say nothing of the real-life events. Terry hallinan is tough, aggressive, a sort of emotional piledriver. Like his famous and brilliant father, he is arrogant and utterly, witherin«-ly contemptuous of the entire system he confronts. The strategy never calls for narrowing issues or isolating one evil from another: Regardless of which point is being made, it is connected to everything else, from the defendants* childhood to the moral bankruptcy of the Vietnam .-Jar and American imperialism. The apparent assumption is that you've got to write off the 3oard and play it to the press, history and the Congressional Investigating Committee. Unlike his father Vincent, Terry is young and not too experienced and doesn't always seer, to be in touch with the courtroom dynamic. One thinff is certain: no Jew ever had more The defense strategy seems to be two-r-ronped. ^irst, he is advancing a complicated--and seemingly tailor-made--psychological defense based on'hirresistible impulse", "diminished responsibility", and th the fact that some fifteen private and several Army psychiatrists Have evaluated all the men and fouro them disturbed and/or unfit for military service. r'e also alleges, of course, that all these circumstances were either caused or aggravated by life under the miserable stockade conditions murder of prisoner -manch a nd precedinp tve sit-down. the the Prie:ay In fact, Dr. Lawrence Levitin, the first of the. fourteen psychiatrists who will testify, ülaced the defendant he had examined in a "transient psychotic state" the morning'of October- 14th, adding that the condition was analogous to battle fatigue and was alleviated once the pressure (conditions in stockade and fear of more hunch-style deaths) were removed.) Th callinj ^en, too, hallinan is into play Article 138 of the Non- Uniform Code of '"'ilitary Injustice, the cist of which is that a has a rig'-'t to seek a re- arievances from a higher soldre dress of superior officer if His immediate superior is plai.pt. unresponsive to a com There have al minor but ult victories. Firs officer, or judg psychiatrists to lie's subpoenaed quest (it was a ing that he sie1*' a few davs into who were guards Stockade on Octo them all the i"ay Chutzpah than this Irish rogue. the atrial. T" already been sever- irately valuable t, !'agan ( the lav/ e) has allowed the testify. Second, at hallinan1s re- reversal of a rul- t on and reversed the trial) two men in the ^residio her 14th--one of from Viet Nam for -,-*,. rrv ra'raVed*
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Title | New SOS news |
Editor | Mickleson, Donna; Strausberg, Betty |
Place of publication | San Francisco, California |
Publisher | United States Servicemen's Fund |
Publication date | 1969 |
Language | English |
Country | United States |
State | California |
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Publication Date-Electronic | 2016 |
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Title | p. 11 |
Language | English |
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Full text | *** Paaeifc *** Presidio 27 Court-; arti«! (Cont'd.) The trial, of course on and is inmany ways dep (The only way I can descr chael Gentile in dress gr a courtroom after three s weeks is by comparing him gar in a business suit, that much at home. The U States Army may not know fir,ht guerillas in jungle they're past asters at b courage in a labyrinth of and enaless lours of shee , drags ressing. ibe Mi- eens in olid to a cou- he looks nited how to s, but uryinq legaiese r tedium.) On the other hand, a lot is getting out that hasn't in the ear lier versions of this play. It is ,of course, pure drama, and largely unrelated to the real-life people who were there on October 14, and now sit, slouch and smoke together before us in the docket. To say nothing of the real-life events. Terry hallinan is tough, aggressive, a sort of emotional piledriver. Like his famous and brilliant father, he is arrogant and utterly, witherin«-ly contemptuous of the entire system he confronts. The strategy never calls for narrowing issues or isolating one evil from another: Regardless of which point is being made, it is connected to everything else, from the defendants* childhood to the moral bankruptcy of the Vietnam .-Jar and American imperialism. The apparent assumption is that you've got to write off the 3oard and play it to the press, history and the Congressional Investigating Committee. Unlike his father Vincent, Terry is young and not too experienced and doesn't always seer, to be in touch with the courtroom dynamic. One thinff is certain: no Jew ever had more The defense strategy seems to be two-r-ronped. ^irst, he is advancing a complicated--and seemingly tailor-made--psychological defense based on'hirresistible impulse", "diminished responsibility", and th the fact that some fifteen private and several Army psychiatrists Have evaluated all the men and fouro them disturbed and/or unfit for military service. r'e also alleges, of course, that all these circumstances were either caused or aggravated by life under the miserable stockade conditions murder of prisoner -manch a nd precedinp tve sit-down. the the Prie:ay In fact, Dr. Lawrence Levitin, the first of the. fourteen psychiatrists who will testify, ülaced the defendant he had examined in a "transient psychotic state" the morning'of October- 14th, adding that the condition was analogous to battle fatigue and was alleviated once the pressure (conditions in stockade and fear of more hunch-style deaths) were removed.) Th callinj ^en, too, hallinan is into play Article 138 of the Non- Uniform Code of '"'ilitary Injustice, the cist of which is that a has a rig'-'t to seek a re- arievances from a higher soldre dress of superior officer if His immediate superior is plai.pt. unresponsive to a com There have al minor but ult victories. Firs officer, or judg psychiatrists to lie's subpoenaed quest (it was a ing that he sie1*' a few davs into who were guards Stockade on Octo them all the i"ay Chutzpah than this Irish rogue. the atrial. T" already been sever- irately valuable t, !'agan ( the lav/ e) has allowed the testify. Second, at hallinan1s re- reversal of a rul- t on and reversed the trial) two men in the ^residio her 14th--one of from Viet Nam for -,-*,. rrv ra'raVed* |
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