Vengeance Under The Law

Vengeance Under the LawIn the fall of 1974, two months after Richard M. Nixon left the White House, a Federal judge in South Dakota pronounced what may become history's verdict on the U. S. Department of Justice in the Nixon years. The judge, Fred J. Nichol, had presided over the eight-month trial of the leaders of a group of American Indians who had occupied the town of Wounded Knee in the spring of 1973, a case in which he found "the misconduct of the Government ... so aggravated that a d...