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In ‘My Fugitive,’ a lawyer’s daughter trains her eye on the FBI’s excesses

St. Louis on the Air

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What Happened in Saint Louis in 1968?

A young man named michael siskind put a molotov cocktail on the window, on the window sill of the army r o t c building. A guard saw the two of them from some dis doing something that was probably illegal. The assistant us. Attorney here in saint louis had a conversation with the special agent in charge of the fbi about bringing federal charges against this young boy. He comes to trial in 19 69, and he is sentenced by judge roy harper to five years in federal penitentiary. It was the first time in american history that a student protester had been brought up on federal charges for sabotage.

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