Television
So-called “Preppy Killer” Robert E. Chambers Jr.
June 25, 1989
World & Nation
Scientists have uncovered what may be the largest underground tomb ever found in Egypt’s fabled Valley of the Kings--a mausoleum in which may lie buried 50 sons of Ramses II, the red-haired Pharaoh of Exodus who ruled Egypt at the zenith of its power more than 3,000 years ago.
May 16, 1995
California
David Edwin Mason, the convicted killer of five who volunteered for the gas chamber, held firm to his vow not to halt his execution as he said farewell to his family and prepared to die just after midnight this morning.
Aug. 24, 1993
Prof. Robert Faurisson had a question for his audience.
Feb. 23, 1989
The City Council has voted to raise the Chamber of Commerce’s subsidy from $6,350 a month to $8,500, beginning this month.
Sept. 11, 1986
Four people were singled out for honors at the 79th annual Chamber of Commerce banquet last week at the Waterfront Hilton in Huntington Beach.
April 2, 1993
Warden Daniel Vasquez said Thursday that Robert Alton Harris suffered in his final hours because of “macabre” legal machinations, and denied that the prison staff tried to rush the execution to avoid more late-coming reprieves.
April 24, 1992
Condemned killer Robert Alton Harris, just a few days away from scheduled execution Tuesday in San Quentin’s gas chamber, was visited by a brother Thursday in the first of what may be final scenes with his family.
March 30, 1990
Robert Chambers served 15 years for strangling a young woman in Central Park.
Nov. 25, 2004
Robert Chambers, the 21-year-old New Yorker who interrupted jury deliberations to admit he killed 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park, went to jail still insisting that the strangling was accidental.
March 27, 1988