1960's Law and Justice | Deaths

William J. Allen, 76, truck driver who in 1932 discovered the body of aviator Charles Lindbergh's twenty-month-old son who had been abducted by kidnappers, on 20 December 1965.

Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, former nursing-home owner suspected in the deaths of over forty residents and two husbands. She was convicted of one murder for arsenic poisoning, and her death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, on 23 April 1962.

Thurman W. Arnold, 78, prominent New Deal trust-buster as assistant attorney general from 1938 to 1943, also served on U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia before quitting to establish the Arnold and Porter law firm, on 7 November 1969.

W. Preston Battle, 60, Tennessee judge in the trial of James Earl Ray for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. He accepted the deal by which Ray pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to ninety-nine years in prison, on...