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Tolson _—————— Boardman ————— . Bei ont. 2. fede een Pursons ———ar- Rosen —————_ Tamm —————_——- Trottel ——wr- Clayton ———_——- Tele. Rcom —— Holleman ————— Gandy ————— mo bar [ TROJAN Qos tf _ Special Events _ _ Specia Joe Nevens, Special Events Editor & (Ed. Note: Today the Daily Trojan completes the running of the special tape- -recorded interview with convict-author and self-taught lawyer Cary!, Chess- man. Interviewing Chessman are Daily Trojan Editor- in-Chief Jerry A. Burns and Joe Nevens, Daily Trojan Special Events Editor. The interview, was heid in the jury reom adjoining the courtreom where the Chess- man case is being ‘tried, in the Los Angeles Counly Superior Court Building, on Jan. 15 and 16.) ‘ate so een cane mete ase aemttrpametena . i) . “We spoke {o those associated with yeur case, and they stated emphatically that there are those who ‘cannot be rchabilitated. With your background and experience what about this individual, the one who cannot be rehabilitated?” et i: “You are putting'me on the spot with a loaded ques- tjon because you are obliging me to answer first that there — are those, and I don’t feel that thai’senecessarily true.- Wash. Post and There may be those who through brain damage or some- Times Herald thing are not able to control their own acts, but I think ’ Wash. News that that’s a medical. problem, as distinguished from’ a penalogical or a crirhinolcgical one. Now if you mean sim- ply that there are those who are committed to the propo- Wash. Star - N. Y. Herald — sition philosophically, that the way to exist is to exist ~ Tribune ° violently, or to exist by.preying on society, I don’t think N. Y. Journal- . thats’ true; wvecause I believe that they have a problem, American . - oy and even though it may be buriéd inside themselves, I~ : : think with the advance in psychiatric methods and psy- N. Y. Mirror ™ chiatric tools and techniques, that we will reach the point N. Y. Daily News — . where we're able to look inside the man, and come cer- N. Y. Times tainly with more reasonable explanations for the crim- Daily Worker . jnality rather than try to punish, we'll try to approach . ' . it with as much as ‘any other mental affliction or aber- The Worket ration, and try to treat it and correct it.” -” “T just wanted to-get that clear. Through your : experience, would you say that everyone under these . . conditions could be approached and_ rehabilitated,. . . __ eiventhe proper conditions?” ; ely 4 ° ENCLOSURI ‘ :