The Penn Trial

In his letter (July 20), after accusing The Times of a “liberal bias,” Edwin O. Learnard wrote about the recent Sagon Penn Trial: “From the very beginning of this farce of a trial, it was a clear fact that (defense) attorney Milton J. Silverman intended to put the prosecution’s primary witness on trial as a racist. He knew that in doing so he could count on the black jurors to sympathize with Penn. That assured him (Silverman) of nothing less than a hung jury.”

How poor Mr. Learnard and his pious, patriotic pals must ache for the good old days of the 18th Century, and how they must have suffered when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

NORM PLISCOU

Holtville