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0-19 (Rev. 12-14-64} 4 \ | 4 | a Tolson Belmont Mohr DeLoach Casper Callanan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy “=~ Ques tions-About the Police and (Continued from Page 1) Bellevue Prison Ward and was sealed off by a dozen policemen. The other suspect was taken to {the Wadsworth Avenue precinct, where the city’s top policemen im- * mediately converged and began one of the heaviest homicide in- vestigations this city has ever seen.” Next we turn to a later (late city) edition of the same paper for the same day. The top head- line is unchanged. But the sub- head is different. This time {t reads, “Police Rescue One Sus- pect.” The “second” suspect has dropped not only out of the head- line, but cut of Breslin’s story too. Nothing about his being taught and beaten by the crowd, nothing about his being rescued by the police, nothing about his being taken to the Wadsworth Station, nothing about the city’s top police converging on that sta- tion, Suspect Vanishes Not only does he disappear fram Breslin’s story in the late city edition, but he disappears from the Herald Tribune altogether from that date to this. Perhaps the whole thing never happened? Perhaps Breslin, in the heat of the moment, had in his first story reported a mere rumor as a fact, and, being unable to verify it, decided not to repeat it in later editions? But there are three morning papers in New York, and in thelr first editions they ail said it hap- pened. For example, let us examine the first (city) edition of the New —~ York Times for Feb, 22. The sub- head is very clear: “Police Hold Two for Questioning.” From the Times’ city edition, we even learn the name of the cop who captured the “second” mam It is Patrolman Thomas Hoy, who is quoted as saying he had “grabbed a suspect” being chas by some people. But when we turn to the la city edition of the same Ti > printed only a few hours latef, we find that its subhead too has changed. It now reads: “One Is Held in Killing.” . But the story hasn’t yet b - alannsn —- changed altogether. Petrolia rm Hoy still remains in the late ci story, and so does the “second! man who has dropped out of th subhead, In fact, the story has more about Hoy than it had in the city edition. This time the Times reports: “tas I brought him to the front of the ballroom, the crowd began beating me and the suspect,’ Pa- trolman Hoy said. He said he put this man — not otherwise idenif- fied later for newsmen — intola police car to be taken to the Wa ’ worth Avenue station.” Then Hoy’s captive disappears from the Times as completely and as permanently as he did from the Herald Tribune, and from all the other daily papers. But there cannot be any doubt in the mind of anyone reading the accounts I have cited that @ second man was captured fad taken away by the police. Who was he? : he Why did the press lose inte L- Malcolm -X‘s Murder The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News —__. The Evening Star New York Heratd Tribune New Yotk Journal-American New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wali Street Journal The National Observer Peoplets World Date Ts 12, 65 THE MILITANT CONTINUED PAGE 3