The Press: The Case of Dr. Sam

In Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express, the headlines at first called him DR. SAMUEL SHEPPARD. Then the name was shortened to DR. SHEPPARD. By last week it was simply DR. SAM or just SAM. He needed no further identification. The same thing happened in other papers. For the last month the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the Cleveland osteopath charged with murdering his pregnant wife TIME, Aug. 30), has been the biggest murder story in the U.S. press since the rial of Bruno Hauptmann in 1935. Said Herald & Express Managing Editor Herbert...

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