Lawmakers Defeat Attempt to Ban Death Penalty

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“I’ve Got to Live With Myself!”

 March 10, 1960, Cover

March 10, 1960: The Senate Judiciary Committee kills Gov. Pat Brown’s effort to repeal the death penalty. Although Caryl Chessman is the pressing issue in the question of capital punishment, his name is never mentioned in the hearing.

Police Chief William H. Parker "called Brown's bill a step in a trend of loosening criminal law which he feared would lead to the abolition of the prison system and the complete relaxation of restraints on criminals."



March 10, 1960, Carry On Nurse 

Carry On Nurse” premieres in the U.S.

March 10, 1960, Nixon and Kennedy

Now that Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Vice President Richard Nixon have taken the New Hampshire primaries, the analysis begins. Is Kennedy weak? Some Republicans think so. 

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OK, it’s a posed picture and we don’t do this anymore, but I kind of like it.

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