HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
A TALE OF TWO PRESS CONFERENCES

This is a quickie entry. Oh, I’ll be back later with the full story of A TALE OF TWO PRESS CONFERENCES.

But first it is fitting to note an anniversary. It is a sad, sad anniversary. It marks a tragedy that left a young woman dead. Her killer was let with a very light slap on the wrist. Took his license to drive away for a few months or a year or something. The murderer spent no time in jail after pleading guilty to what amounted to a misdemeanor.

And this was not an example of Southern Justice where White Man kills Black lady and gets off with a scowl from a local judge.

No the killing in this case took place way up north in the Bay State of Massachusetts, liberal bastion of the universe.

The date was July 18th, the year 1969. The dead twenty-eight year-old political stringer was a girl named Mary Jo Kopeckne. The guy who drove her into the water and abandoned the woman trapped in the back seat of his Oldsmobile was Senator Edward Kennedy, who has been returned to the august governing body five times since by the voters of Massachusetts.

I shall return later this afternoon after I pick up a seven-year-old’s first real twenty-two rifle from a location near you.

I'M BAAAAAAAACK......

As was suggested, the imperial powers that be treated the media to a duet pf news conferences today. The first held by DA Howard Simms; the second, by Mayor Ellis.

Taking things in reverse order, at 2:00 this afternoon, Mr. Ellis told the assembled masses that Macon has been approved by the Federal Government for 6.5 million dollars to turn the aging TERMINMAL STATION into a mid state transportation center. The city administration has been working this project for at least two years now. This is the good news/

And for the bad news, or the really good news depending on which side of the Ellis Administration you stand, Howard Simms announced this morning that the investigation already wrought through three successive grand juries would now be turned over to the Federal Government for disposition.

Meaning? If there has been malfeasance in city hall, then the cap in the ass of the evildoers will be fired by the feds, who use a much larger caliber gun than do the locals.

A statement prepared by the DA’s office read in part: