I think informally prosecutors talk and say, you know, 'What can we do to get minorities off the jury panel'
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I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.Henry Wade
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All I remember - I don't actually remember or know what night it was I talked to him but I assume it was that night because he did mention that the rumor was out that we were getting ready to file a charge of Oswald being part of an international conspiracy, and I told him that that was not going to be done.
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They just hear through the grapevine from colleagues ... that if you want a good jury, you've got to get a lot of upper-middle class white people you don't want black people, you don't want preachers ... you don't want schoolteachers because they're all too liberal,
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