Black Community News Service, Saturday September 27, 1969

Black Community News Service, Saturday September 27, 1969\

This issue was a critique of the Nixon-Mitchell Law enforcement policies. Nixon nominated  John Mitchell as Attorney General to clamp down on leftist movements in 1969.
The author points out that: "The black , anyone else with thoughts of rebellion and liberation, were put on notice that there was going to be a new "chief of Politics," a new administrator and overseer of the repressive capitalist state apparatus." pp. 4 


 John Newton Mitchell was the 67th Attorney General of the United States under President Richard Nixon. Prior to that, he had been a municipal bond lawyer, chairman of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of Nixon's closest personal friends. Wikipedia

Born: September 15, 1913, Detroit, MI

Died: November 9, 1988, Washington, D.C.

Spouse: Martha Mitchell (m. 1957–1973)

Books: On with the Wind: Martha Mitchell Speaks

Children: Martha Elizabeth Mitchell

Parents: Joseph C. Mitchell, Margaret McMahon Mitchell

John Mitchell - Attorney General, 1969-1972

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After managing Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, Mitchell was appointed head of the Department of Justice. While there, he backed two Supreme Court nominees that were deemed unqualified, approved unconstitutional wiretaps, prosecuted anti-war protesters and was involved in the famed Pentagon Papers suit. It was an ignominious reign (on its own, enough, perhaps, to merit inclusion on this list), but Mitchell wasn't done. In 1974, he was indicted for conspiring to plan the Watergate break-in and for perjuring himself during the ensuing cover-up. Convicted the following year, he served 19 months in prison.