1

This had been provided by the disciplinary school which I attended.

2

The Dred Scott decision. It was handed down by the United States Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Taney presiding. Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken into free territory, and maintained that he was therefore a free man when brought again into slave territory. But the Court ruled that a Negro was not a citizen of the United States and therefore could not sue in the courts.

3

The record book shows this fight to have been a second-round knockout, and I won’t try to dispute that, but this is the only round that I can remember.

4

According to the Report by the Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riot, Violence in the City—An End or a Beginning?, December 2, 1965, pp. 22-25.

5

Unfortunately, at that time a lie detector test was not admissible as evidence in a court of law.

6

All of the dialogue that follows is taken straight from the official court record.

7

The Miranda warnings.