Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials died Sunday.
FILE - Actor Ralph Bellamy is interviewed by Associated Press special writer Linda Deutsch during the"Twilight Zone" trial in Los Angeles, Calif., March 9, 1987. – Linda Deutsch , a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson , Michael Jackson , among many others — died Sunday. She was 80.
Her work, always written with verve, was not limited to celebrity — other trials involved fraud, conspiracy, environmental disasters and immigration — and eventually earned her the title of special correspondent, the most prestigious byline for an AP reporter. When Manson and three of his young female followers went on trial for murder in 1970, they turned the monthslong legal proceeding into a “surreal spectacle,”“People were having LSD flashbacks in the courtroom and at one point Charlie is leaping across the counsel table at the judge with a pencil in his hand and the girls are jumping up and down singing,” Deutsch recalled during a 2014 interview.
Nonetheless, she was hooked, forming tight bonds with the journalists who showed up every day for nine months. She was also at the 1973 espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked to The New York Times the top secret Pentagon Papers that revealed unsavory details about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The Times published a series of articles about the contents that helped turn the public against the Vietnam War.who were videotaped beating King that shook Deutsch the most. Their acquittals triggered rioting in Los Angeles that killed 55 people and caused $1 billion in property damage.
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